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 Student National Medical Association is the nation's oldest and largest student organization that addresses the needs and concerns of minority medical students. The organization fulfills a mission which includes securing equitable medical education and health care, ensuring the future development of our youth, and promoting activism in areas of medical education and disease prevention in underserved populations.
Members also provide each other with both academic and social support.
At Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the SNMA chapter is dedicated to realizing the mission of the national organization by conducting various community outreach projects, developing academic support networks, facilitating student recruitment programs and sponsoring culturally related social events. The SNMA sponsors several social events that include a Kwaanza Celebration, Black History Month activities, and a Mardi Gras Celebration. These events aim to increase sensitivity about cultural diversity at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Salud members teach a Medical Spanish elective course open to the general student body to promote linguistic skills for the physician. The mission of AMWA is to improve the personal and professional wellbeing of its members and to increase the influence of women in all aspects of the medical profession.