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ACP Annual Business Meeting to be held
All members are encouraged to attend ACP's Annual Business Meeting to be held during Internal Medicine 2012. Current College Officers will retire from office and incoming Officers, new Regents and Governors-Elect will be introduced.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/02/07/10.htm
7 Feb 2012
Global health course featuring ACP leadership and policy in Italy this summer
ACP members are invited to participate in the European Genetics Foundation's (EGF) summer course in Comparative Health: The Reforms of the Health Care Systems in a Globalized World, co-directed by ACP's associate executive vice president John Tooker, MACP, MBA.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/07/12/9.htm
12 Jul 2011
ACP's Quality Improvement Network now recruiting practices for ACPNet: Diabetes
ACP's Quality Improvement (QI) Network is recruiting practices to enroll in ACPNet: Diabetes, a QI initiative that provides physicians free access to PQRSwizard, ABIM-approved MOC practice performance (part IV) credit, and ACP's Practice Advisor (formerly the Medical Home Builder).
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2013/10/08/9.htm
8 Oct 2013
Former ACP Japan chapter Governor receives prestigious awards
Former ACP Japan chapter Governor Kiyoshi Kurokawa, MD, MACP, who led the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission, has been honored with two recent awards.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/12/11/10.htm
11 Dec 2012
Governance Committee seeks Regent candidates for 2014
The Governance Committee oversees the process for nominating and electing Masters and Fellows of the College to the Board of Regents (BOR) and is beginning the process of seeking Regents to join the Board in May 2014.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2013/06/04/12.htm
4 Jun 2013
Five questions that may decide success of health care reform
As open enrollment begins under the Affordable Care Act, its success depends upon who signs up, how easy it is to do so, and whether the states help their residents do so. Physicians can help their patients sign up.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/11/washington.htm
1 Nov 2013
ACP's Washington office accepting internship applications
The College's Washington office is now accepting applications for a newly created Health Policy Internship Program. The interns will work with ACP staff to plan ACP's annual Leadership Day and will be responsible for researching and presenting students and residents at Leadership Day with information on health policy issues relevant to those groups. Applicants must be enrolled in an accredited medical school or internal medicine training program and must be a member of ACP. One Associate member and one medical student member will be chosen for the month-long spring internship.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2010/11/23/10.htm
23 Nov 2010
Call for fall 2011 Board of Governors resolutions
The deadline for submitting new resolutions to be heard at the fall 2011 Board of Governors meeting is Wednesday, March 23, 2011. Initiating a resolution provides ACP members an opportunity to focus attention at the ACP national level on a particular issue or topic that concerns them. Members must submit resolutions to their Governor and/or chapter council. A resolution becomes a resolution of the chapter once the chapter council approves it.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/01/25/10.htm
25 Jan 2011
ACP supports Saudi physicians upholding medical ethics
The American College of Physicians and Physicians for Human Rights sent a letter to the Minister of Health of Saudi Arabia in support for Saudi physicians and hospitals who have refused to intentionally inflict a spinal cord injury in retribution for an alleged attack that resulted in another person's paralysis. “Consistent with the principle of nonmaleficence,” the letter states, “in medical ethics—to do no harm—we are confident that the use of medical facilities, procedures and personnel to maim human beings is, under all circumstances including the punishment of convicted criminals, abhorrent to physicians everywhere.”
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2010/09/14/10.htm
14 Sep 2010
Call for fall 2010 Board of Governors resolutions
The deadline for submitting new resolutions to be heard at the fall 2010 Board of Governors Meeting is March 23, 2010. In initiating a resolution, ACP members have an opportunity to focus attention at the ACP national level on a particular issue or topic that concerns them. Members must submit resolutions to their Governor and/or chapter council. A resolution becomes a resolution of the chapter once the chapter council approves it.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2010/02/23/12.htm
23 Feb 2010