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Jack Rutledge Fellowship

Currently in its sixth year, the AMSA Jack Rutledge Fellowship has been created for a medical student or recent medical school graduate to focus full-time for one year on the AMSA strategic priorities of Universal Health Care and Eliminating Health Disparities.

The Jack Rutledge Fellow addresses these problems by educating and mobilizing students on these and relevant issues.

The Fellow works with a variety of national and local Health Care Justice groups to continue building on the growing grass roots movement to achieve equal access to quality and affordable health care to every American. The Fellow organizes the national Universal Health Care Leadership Institute and several regional Student Leadership Institutes, which take place around the country. The Fellow also leads two study tours during which students travel to countries with UHC systems to learn and experience these systems in action.

Each Fellow determines the scope of his or her work.

• Creating a Health Equity Campaign
• Leading a national study on medical education and health disparities
• Building coalitions on health disparities and the uninsured
• Mobilizing students during “Cover the Uninsured Week”
• Developing and publicizing events for national efforts such as “Covering Kids and Families” and “Health Care for America Campaign”

For more information, please contact Vanessa Calderon, Jack Rutledge Fellow, by email or by telephone at 703-620-6600 x256.