Year: 2009
Resolution Number: 44
Action Taken: Approved as Amended
Status:
Author(s): Paul D. Bozyk, MD, and Nita M. Kulkarni, MD
Sponsor: Pradeep Nagaraju, MD
On behalf of: Young Physicians Section Supported by the Wayne County Delegation
Committee: C (Internal Affairs and Public Service) [Pre-2014]
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS formally commend graduate medical education programs that provide membership for house staff to participate in MSMS and county medical societies; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That MSMS encourage graduate medical education programs to offer schedule protection for physicians in training to attend local, state, and national meetings in organized medicine as able, without impact on a trainee’s vacation bank.REFERENCE COMMITTEE RATIONALE: The Committee was supportive of this resolution; however, it felt that the third resolved, which asked MSMS to provide free AMA resident memberships, would not achieve the intended outcomes and was lacking the necessary criteria to determine the recipients.
RESOLVED: That MSMS formally commend graduate medical education programs that provide membership for house staff to participate in MSMS and county medical societies; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That MSMS encourage graduate medical education programs to offer schedule protection for physicians in training to attend local, state, and national meetings in organized medicine as able, without impact on a trainee’s vacation bank.REFERENCE COMMITTEE RATIONALE: The Committee was supportive of this resolution; however, it felt that the third resolved, which asked MSMS to provide free AMA resident memberships, would not achieve the intended outcomes and was lacking the necessary criteria to determine the recipients.
Fiscal Note: NULL