The Experience: Running for AMSA Vice President

Running for a political party is not easy task, you could be running for a position in an organization, and feel like you are a part of the series house of cards. There are certain characteristics needed make each candidate an individual that is capable to do the position in which they aspire. Although the truth is that the final decision is placed on the voters, there are qualities like charisma, bravery, determination, and leadership that make a candidate stand out amongst the candidates. This year I had the opportunity to run in the elections of the American Medical Student Association, better known as AMSA. I ran for the position of vice president, because I wanted to be a part of this association because they are focused on guiding premedical students, students that wish to follow a discipline related to the health system, and talking about medical topics that would help me and others in a profession that I find extremely enriching as a human being.

I was asked during my candidacy to define “what is a true health provider?”, and concluded that we live on an island that medicine has been converted into an economic topic, where the patient has lost important while the earnings have become the main reason for the profession.  For this reason, I wanted to become the vice president, because I wanted to clarify what it meant to me to be a true health provider. I wanted to guide other students, like myself, to a path that it’s focus is to create an individual that is righteous and respected, because they look for what is best for the patient, and not in it for the economic security that in entails. I wish for any human that requires any help from a physician is reachable and not an economic factor that limits many people. As a candidate, I wanted to present innovative ideas, which are just and refreshing, to the idea that governs the health field, which promote progress.  Making promises that can’t be fulfilled, because they are not plausible and only prolong the problems that are existing, but are not being resolved.

Unfortunately, in my island, the majority vote based on political parties, and not by candidates, in which ideas are not passed faster because they don’t permit the good ideas to pass because they bicker over the stupid details, and contradict each other, just to contradict each other. This does not permit for the desires of some to be ignored, and because of that is why I wanted to become a vice-president of the association, because right now the future medics of the island are the in this campus, and can be respond with and could be better informed of how the system works, and what needs to be fixed. I want to place seed that will help the students work with the past that has problems, and provide a future with solutions.