SNMA Students at the 2010 Black History Month Extravaganza

• The SNMA commits to the empowerment of its members to take proactive steps to address minority health issues through advocacy and community service. As such, SNMA works to promote the professional development of its members, so that they may have the potential for being the underrepresented minority (URM) health leaders of tomorrow.

• SNMA commits to providing URM pre-health students with knowledge, skills and experiences that are both pre-requisite and concomitant to professional participation in the health care industry.

• SNMA commits to actively engaging in health advocacy to address inequities in medical education; racial/ethnic health disparities; and injustices in U.S. domestic and foreign health policy. SNMA will work to ensure equity in health care, serve as community health advocates, succeed as leaders in academic medicine, and direct health policy change.

• We encourage our membership to embody the ideals of the organization while maintaining leadership roles within SNMA; other professional organizations; and minority and underserved communities.  We continue to advance the culturally competent URM medical student and future physician to achieve equal opportunity and health care for all.

• The University o f Washington School of Medicine has maintained an SNMA chapter for the past 10 years. 

Committed to supporting current and future underrepresented minority medical students, addressing the needs of underserved communities, and increasing the number of clinically excellent, culturally competent and socially conscious physicians.