Once every two years, the AMA-MSS chooses a new National Service Project (NSP) around which we focus our community service activities for the following two years. The MSS is pleased to announce that Covering the Uninsured and Protecting Access to Care was selected for 2006-2008. In the next two years, America will be forced to confront the failings in our health care system. As the future of medicine, we should lead the call for change with our service and advocacy.

Background
At the MSS Annual Meeting in 1998, Resolution 16, "Creating a Community Service Project," was passed by the Assembly. This resolution asked that the AMA-MSS undertake a limited local service project as part of its agenda at its annual meeting, at a time determined by Governing Council, as appropriate based on the schedule of activities.

Previous National Service Projects include organ and tissue donor awareness; Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP); "No Butts About It...Tobacco Stinks!"; and Healthy Lifestyles to Reduce Obesity. At our national Annual and Interim Meetings, the MSS organizes events in the community that focus on our NSP, such as health fairs and programs at local elementary schools. The goal of these projects is to provide students with the idea and structure so that you can replicate them in your own communities.

Get Involved
You can get involved too! You can:

• organize a project in your community focusing on the current MSS National Service Project: Covering the Uninsured and Protecting Access to Care
• apply for a grant from the AMA-MSS to fund your event through the MSS Chapter Involvement Grants
• take a look at project ideas from other chapters

Healthy Lifestyles to Reduce Obesity

The MSS selected obesity as the National Service Project for 2004-06. The Healthy Lifestyles service project encompasses many different ideas for projects that can be implemented at the chapter or state level.

Tobacco Prevention and Education in Children

The AMA-MSS National Service Project, No Butts About It... Tobacco Stinks!

Children's Health Insurance Program

AMA Medical Student Section's Children's Health Insurance Program project

Organ & Tissue Donation

AMA Medical Student Section 1998-2000 National Service Project, Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness.