Minority Affairs

Minority Affairs Section (MAS) leadership opportunities

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The AMA is your powerful ally in providing you with leadership opportunities in the Minority Affairs Section (MAS) to represent physicians with a unified voice and remove obstacles that interfere with patient care.

Your Powerful Ally

The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most—patients. We will meet this challenge together.

Vacancy and special election

At the conclusion of the Annual Meeting in Chicago in June 2025, the Resident and Fellow Section (RFS) representative seat on the Minority Affairs Section (MAS) Governing Council will officially become vacant.

The candidate nomination period for this upcoming vacancy will begin mid-late June 2025 and the subsequent special election will take place over the summer. Final dates for the nomination period and special election will be posted once available. 

Interested residents or fellows wanting to learn more about this opportunity should contact the Minority Affairs Section at mas@ama-assn.org and the Resident and Fellow Section at rfs@ama-assn.org

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