December 2025 – The New Physician

Bridging Gaps in Care: Training Healthcare Professionals and First Responders in Autism, Neurodiversity and Disability Awareness

December 30, 2025

In April 2025, tragedy struck when Victor Perez, a 17-year-old autistic and nonverbal teenager with cerebral palsy, was shot multiple times by Idaho police while standing behind a chain-link fence. Despite several surgeries, including the […]

Ethical AI in Medicine

December 30, 2025

My first use of Generative Artificial Intelligence: a technological feat that left me impressed. To me, tapping into its capabilities felt limitless, as if it were the optimal clinical companion. Yet, I noticed something unsettling. […]

Who Is Most Affected by New HepB Recommendations?

December 20, 2025

Following in the wake of public health turnabouts from the United States’ chief public health agency, on Dec. 5, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (ACIP) has rescinded its 30-year policy for hepatitis B vaccination […]

Capping Loans, Narrowing the Path: What It Means for Physician–MPH Training

December 15, 2025

The U.S. Department of Education’s proposal to remove graduate public health degrees from its definition of professional degree programs arrives at a moment when the country urgently needs more, not fewer, clinicians […]

In a Place

December 15, 2025

In a room with the person I trust the most, I sit in the chair with a look of confusion. I only know a few of the words, They are coming at me so fast, […]

Editorial

Health Disparities Among People In Prison and Jail

January 24, 2026

Definition of Health Disparity To delve into the health inequalities experienced by individuals in prisons and jails, it is essential to begin by examining the concept of health disparities and the term “correctional health,” which […]

Book Review

What It Means to Become and Remain a Better Physician

January 20, 2026

Becoming a Better Physician is not a manual, a checklist, or a guide to clinical mastery. Instead, it is a carefully curated collection of personal reflections that asks a more fundamental and enduring question: what […]

Editorial

The Second Life of Medical Supplies

January 20, 2026

I recall the first time I saw a laryngoscope blade, clean, intact and in excellent condition, being discarded in the garbage can. It was not contaminated. Not broken. Simply “expired” and marked obsolete by a […]

The New Physician

The official magazine of the American Medical Student Association

Month: December 2025

Bridging Gaps in Care: Training Healthcare Professionals and First Responders in Autism, Neurodiversity and Disability Awareness

Ethical AI in Medicine

Who Is Most Affected by New HepB Recommendations?

Capping Loans, Narrowing the Path: What It Means for Physician–MPH Training

In a Place