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To the Editor: We read with disappointment the news that STUDENTJAMA has been discontinued.¹ The student section of JAMA, under its various names (Pulse, MSJAMA, and STUDENTJAMA), has functioned as a refreshing space for an exchange of the ideas of future physicians. In these pages, students have considered spiritual assessment of patients, the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, and their own experience of medical education. They have reflected on the nature of healing and spoken to the issues at the core of caring for patients.

The Editorial announcing the end of STUDENTJAMA addressed the emerging emphasis on evidence over opinion. To remove STUDENTJAMA from the journal in the interest of "incorporat[ing] high-quality articles" misses the function of the section. Students, of course, will rarely publish research of the type and quality demanded by the pages of JAMA, but what students bring is as important. Students write . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Brian Palmer, MD, MS, MPH
pres@www.amsa.org
National President
American Medical Student Association
Reston, Va

Yvette Martin
Chair, Organization of Student Representatives
Association of American Medical Colleges
Washington, DC

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