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APSA – The Leadership Experience

Ivayla Geneva, State University of New York Upstate Medical University

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The American Physician Scientists Association is a national organization with strong collaborative ties to the Canadian, French, and Swiss physician-scientist organizations as well as to many of the US-based medical research associations. But does the average APSA member realize how different APSA is from all other big national scientific organizations? Isn’t it amazing that APSA is run by students at all of its administrative levels? From the institutional representatives to the standing committee members to the executive council officers, yes even at our Board of Directors level we have plenty of student involvement!

So how is this made possible? How does APSA help a student like yourself, learn, grow, and become a great leader at the national level?

Well, the truth is that it takes significant effort from both the student volunteer who has just begun their APSA experience and from the current APSA leadership that will serve as their mentors.