Organization of Student Representatives

The Organization of Student Representatives (OSR) fulfills a unique role among medical student organizations. As part of the AAMC, it provides all United States allopathic medical students with voting representation to the nation's largest association dedicated solely to the advancement of academic medicine. The OSR provides medical students with an active role in achieving the AAMC's mission to improve the nation's health through the advancement of academic medicine. The OSR also seeks to assure that students actively participate in directing their education, preserving their rights, and delineating their professional responsibilities. To this end, the OSR provides medical students with a voice in academic medicine at a national level and strives to foster student involvement in this arena at a local level.

The strategic goals of the OSR are:

TO PROVIDE medical student input on all issues addressed by the AAMC and state or federal governments that will impact student education, quality of life, or professional development.
TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT OSR initiatives and aid in the implementation of AAMC initiatives.
TO FACILITATE communication between student bodies of different medical schools and between medical student organizations regarding issues relevant to medical student life and education.
TO ENCOURAGE education techniques and objectives that provide medical students with the intellectual skills, professional standards, and knowledge required to meet the needs of an evolving health care system.
TO PROMOTE a safe, supportive learning environment free of abuse, unreasonable health risks, bias, and inequities.
TO ASSURE that all medical students possess equal freedom and opportunity to pursue the career directions of their choice.

Each school may designate one official and one alternate representative. The representatives of each school are required to attend a fall national meeting and a spring regional meeting of the OSR.