Alpert Medical School Student Senate

11/28/2022

Get ready for the annual Malted Barley Social, Dec 9th 7-10:30pm!
Pretzels provided first come, first served. Cash bar available for beer and other drinks.

09/18/2022

Congratulations to Team Terminators (Alex Albright, Andrew Barton, Spencer Lyons MD24) for winning the 2022 AMS Basketball Tournament! Thanks to all our players for making Brown Med’s first sports tournament in more than two years a great success. More to come!

09/16/2022

Join us tomorrow at the Pizzitola basketball courts to cheer on your classmates in the first ever AMS basketball tournament!!! 🏀🐻🏆

11/16/2020

Wednesday night at 7pm is our next Senate meeting when Brown University President Christina Paxson will be our guest to discuss to the merger between two of our major teaching partners, Care New England and Lifespan, and how it will both effect our education and the care our patient's receive. Zoom link will be in your Brown emails, we look forward to seeing you there!

Lifespan and Care New England have moved to the next step in their affiliation process, thanks to votes by their respective boards. Lawrence A. Aubin, Sr., board chair of Lifespan, and Charles R.

08/06/2020

A new addition to the legal sized notes pathognomonic of the pre-clinical years: PPE goody bags!

06/15/2020

The Brown medical community - residents, med students, faculty, deans - came together yesterday to demand health equity for black lives.

06/14/2020

So proud to see so many faculty, residents, students, and friends in the streets and at the state house. Your senate stands with you.

06/10/2020

The following message was sent to the AMS student body from the AMS Student Senate Executive Board regarding police brutality:

To Alpert Medical School’s current and future student body, administration, staff, faculty, alumni, and all Rhode Island residents,

As members of the Student Senate executive board, we condemn the continued physical and structural violence directed at Black, Brown, and Native individuals by police departments across the United States. This violence has killed George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, and countless others in the name of a “law and order” narrative that only safeguards a privileged few. Too often poor communities and communities of color are left with too much pain and little to no opportunities for justice or a path toward equity and collective healing.

We recognize police brutality represents just one facet of the systemic racism deeply ingrained in the United States’ history. Physicians must acknowledge that the medical field developed within, and often benefited from, its ties with colonial enterprises across the world. It has repeatedly reinforced humankind’s division across racial lines through scientific racism, ideas that persist in contemporary clinical medicine. We must acknowledge this history and make dismantling systems of oppression a priority.

We also want to amplify the powerful AMS affinity group statement published last week. However, the burden of anti-racist education and activisim should never fall entirely on marginalized inidviduals. Now more than ever, the people and systems which have benefited the most from white privilege must take measurable and sustained anti-racist actions.

As elected members, the Senate strives to represent the needs of our student body. We always welcome insight from our classmates as to how AMS can become a more anti-racist institution. We want to uplift students advocating for radical racial justice, as well as challenge the gatekeepers of institutionalized racism standing in the way of progress. And most importantly, to our Black friends and colleagues: we see you, we hear you, we support you completely and resolutely.

Sincerely,

Alec Kinczewski, Senate President
Catherine Garcia, Senate Vice President
Carole Spake, Senate Chair of Communications
Ligia Fragoso, Senate Co-Chair of Academics & Mentorship
Harry VanDusen, Senate Co-Chair of Academics & Mentorship
Shreya Ramayya, Senate Chair of Finance and & Membership

05/31/2020

If you aren't part of the solution, then you are part of the oppression. Speak up, educate yourself, be a TRUE ally because

Anti-Racism Summer Reading Program for Incoming Medical Students Curriculum Materials Overview A discussion of the role of race in medicine is especially crucial at the very beginning of medical education—before the first basic science lecture—because the misuse of race as a clinically r...

04/03/2020

More COVID-19 updates from Brown: Join top research, policy, and medical experts from across Brown for a live, virtual discussion on the current public health crisis. The panelists will take stock of current conditions, and discuss the political ramifications and the ongoing impact on patients and health care professionals on the front lines. An interactive audience Q&A will follow. Tune in April 14th at 12 pm EST!!!

03/30/2020

Hello AMS community! In an effort to help while also making sure we are passing along all of the right information, we wanted to share some infographics from the World Health Organization. Please feel free to spread these images all throughout social media, so we can continue to work together and do our part.

03/27/2020

Medical students at Brown have created an online hub for COVID-19 updates, volunteer opportunities, and more: