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Message from the ACP(an organization you should all join, it's free):
"If you are a 4th-year medical student who is a member of both the American College of Physicians and the American Medical Association or are planning to join the AMA soon, you have a rare opportunity to cast a ballot to assure that ACP maintains its strength and influence within the AMA.
As a member of the AMA, you have an opportunity to vote for the specialty society that will represent you in the AMA House of Delegates. This is an important vote. ACP residents and students serve as AMA alternate delegates with the ACP delegation and participate fully in the delegation's activities, including testifying in reference committees and on the floor of the House of Delegates. The College also has representatives in the AMA Resident and Fellow Section, the Medical Student Section, and the Young Physicians Section of the AMA. On behalf of the ACP Council of Student Members, I urge you as an ACP member to select the College as your representative in the AMA. Your vote is critically important to maintain internal medicine's effectiveness in the AMA. Your ACP delegates and alternate delegates have been very active in addressing a wide range of issues facing patients and our profession. Just a few of the issues addressed at recent AMA meetings included resident work hours, medical student debt relief, Medicare physician payment, access to health insurance, the medical response to terrorism, medical ethics, and malpractice insurance reform.
Under AMA House of Delegates rules, a specialty society is awarded an additional delegate seat and an alternate seat for every 1000 votes it receives from AMA members. Each society currently seated in the HoD is allocated one delegate and alternate seat, plus one additional seat each for every 1000 votes it receives. ACP currently is allowed eight delegate and eight alternate seats in the AMA House of Delegates, but stands to lose seats due to an overall decline in AMA membership.
It is easy to vote. A designation can be made upon joining the AMA or subsequently by contacting the AMA Website at https://ssl3.ama-assn.org/ssballoting/login.jsp . You will need to know your AMA password and member number. You designation of a representative specialty society will remain on file unless you change it, which you may do at any time.
Please take a minute to cast your vote for ACP. Ballots cast by December 31, 2003 will determine specialty society representation for 2004 and 2005, so a vote now for ACP will make a big difference. Thank you."
"If you are a 4th-year medical student who is a member of both the American College of Physicians and the American Medical Association or are planning to join the AMA soon, you have a rare opportunity to cast a ballot to assure that ACP maintains its strength and influence within the AMA.
As a member of the AMA, you have an opportunity to vote for the specialty society that will represent you in the AMA House of Delegates. This is an important vote. ACP residents and students serve as AMA alternate delegates with the ACP delegation and participate fully in the delegation's activities, including testifying in reference committees and on the floor of the House of Delegates. The College also has representatives in the AMA Resident and Fellow Section, the Medical Student Section, and the Young Physicians Section of the AMA. On behalf of the ACP Council of Student Members, I urge you as an ACP member to select the College as your representative in the AMA. Your vote is critically important to maintain internal medicine's effectiveness in the AMA. Your ACP delegates and alternate delegates have been very active in addressing a wide range of issues facing patients and our profession. Just a few of the issues addressed at recent AMA meetings included resident work hours, medical student debt relief, Medicare physician payment, access to health insurance, the medical response to terrorism, medical ethics, and malpractice insurance reform.
Under AMA House of Delegates rules, a specialty society is awarded an additional delegate seat and an alternate seat for every 1000 votes it receives from AMA members. Each society currently seated in the HoD is allocated one delegate and alternate seat, plus one additional seat each for every 1000 votes it receives. ACP currently is allowed eight delegate and eight alternate seats in the AMA House of Delegates, but stands to lose seats due to an overall decline in AMA membership.
It is easy to vote. A designation can be made upon joining the AMA or subsequently by contacting the AMA Website at https://ssl3.ama-assn.org/ssballoting/login.jsp . You will need to know your AMA password and member number. You designation of a representative specialty society will remain on file unless you change it, which you may do at any time.
Please take a minute to cast your vote for ACP. Ballots cast by December 31, 2003 will determine specialty society representation for 2004 and 2005, so a vote now for ACP will make a big difference. Thank you."
