History

In the fall of 1998, Carlton E. Robinson Jr. approached the Office of Pre-Professional Advising to express interest of starting an organization to help improve the success of minority premedical students. An immediate partnership was born! On November 9, 1998, the six founding members formed the Family of African-American Premedical Students. These students were Carlton E. Robinson Jr., Chad O. Johnson, Tiffany Goldsmith , Kiesha L. Fant, Michael A.R. Simmons, and Folami Geter. FAAPS hoped to galvanize all minority pre-med/health students at USC to form a viable support system to increase the number of future minorities in medical and health fields.

In the spring of 2006, in hopes to better encompass all minorities within the group, as well as their differing prospective health fields, FAAPS underwent a metamorphous. On April 10th 2006, the FAAPS cabinet which included President Antronette Williams, Treasurer Jadine Piper, and Secretary Tunisia Beach; along with 16 members of FAAPS chose to rename FAAPS, “AMPS”,which stood for, Aspiring Minority Pre-Health Students. Despite the modification, the goal of AMPS remains the same as FAAPS before it. To act as an academic and personal support for all minority pre-health students, and also create a basis that would increase the number of minorities in all health fields.