Ampac

Residents & Students

AMPAC highly values resident physicians and medical students. As the future of medicine, your involvement with AMPAC strengthens the voice of organized medicine.  Furthermore, your participation allows AMPAC to support federal candidates who understand the critical issues residents and students face.

The AMA advocates for many legislative issues on behalf of residents and students.  Some of those issues include:

• Medical Student Debt
• Resident Work Conditions
• Student Work Hours
• Clinical Skills Assessment Exam
• Medical Education

The interests of resident physicians and medical students are also represented on the AMPAC Board. The AMPAC Board consists of nine physicians, one alliance representative, one resident physician and one medical student who all serve two-year terms.

Alexander Ding, MD, MS was appointed to the AMPAC Board in 2008 and is a resident in diagnostic radiology in Boston, Massachusetts. Heather Kaiser, MPH is a medical student from Cincinnati, Ohio and also began her term on the AMPAC Board in 2008.

AMPAC Membership

AMPAC recognizes the challenging financial situation that resident physicians and medical students have as they begin their career in medicine.  Therefore residents, students and their spouses receive a reduced AMPAC membership at all three levels.

• Capitol Club Gold: $1,000 annually
  Resident & Student Membership: $500 annually or monthly increments of $41.66.
• Capitol Club Silver: $500 annually
  Resident & Student Membership: $250 annually or monthly increments of $20.83.
• Sustaining Membership: $100 annually
  Resident & Student Membership: $20 annually

AMPAC also urges residents and students to get further involved in advocating for your profession by learning more about the following groups:

• Medical Student Section
• Resident and Fellow Section
• Physicians’ Grassroots Network
• Patients’ Action Network