Ninth Annual Medical School Ethics Conference (AMSEC 2025)

The Annual Medical Student Ethics Conference (AMSEC) is a two-day national conference to address ethical issues that arise in medical education. The conference will be held virtually April 10-April 11, 2025. The keynote speaker will be Keisha Ray, PhD, Associate Professor at the McGovern Center for Humanities & Ethics at UT Health Houston. The conference solicits abstracts from students from any accredited medical school in the United States. Over the past nine years, AMSEC has become a national venue for students to discuss ethical issues in medicine. We instituted a mentorship system, which pairs the authors of accepted abstracts with faculty mentors to help them develop their conference presentation. These collaborations have resulted in a number of student-led publications in bioethics journals such as The Hastings Center Report, Bioethics, and Journal of Medical Ethics. The organizing committee invites abstracts for oral presentations on the ethical issues that arise in medical education because of one’s role as a medical student. The theme for AMSEC 2025 is " Drawing the Boundaries of Medicine." We invite submissions related to the conference theme and on any other topic tackling ethical issues in medical education. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: justice and equity in medicine, disparity in allocation of educational resources in medical school; learning on/with patients; humor in medicine; moral distress; hierarchy in medicine.