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Effective August, 2025, the Social Mission Alliance will be sunsetting the formal “Student Assembly” structure and transitioning related programming into our now formalized Learner Engagement Initiatives. This decision has been made in order to decrease the burden on students relative to leading program development and to instead broaden the conversation among leaders at all stages of professional training. Furthermore, this...

Meet the 2024-25 cohort of the Social Mission Alliance Health Justice Council! Through engagement with the Health Justice Student Assembly, the Alliance seeks to infuse trainee perspectives into all work we do. The Health Justice Council is the leadership body of the student assembly tasked with facilitating this effort....

In March, 2023, leaders at the Social Mission Alliance (SMA) worked with students across health professions to advocate effectively to five offices of members of the House and Senate online, presenting fact sheets on the health professional density of their respective districts as well as speaking on relevant upcoming legislation and potential amendments. ...

The Social Mission Alliance Student Assembly held a webinar to address racial and socioeconomic disparities of attrition rates in health professional education. The panelists talk about the current state of attrition, what contributes to these levels, examples they have encountered in the past, and what can be done in the future to reduce disparities....

Watch a recording of the January 2023 Student Assembly webinar on unionization in the health workforce....

This month, we spoke with third-year medical students from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, Adriana Pero and Emily Xu. They recently authored an article published in the AMA Journal of Ethics, called Is It Reasonable to Expect Students and Trainees to Internalize Equity as a Core Professional Value When Teaching and Learning Occurs in Segregated Settings?...