Membership Commission

July 27 2013

10:00am – 1:00pm

Summer Cluster

Hyatt Regency Long Island at Wind Watch Golf Club

Minutes

Present:

Sarah C Nosal, MD (Chair)

Barbara Keber, MD (Vice-Chair)

George F. Dunn, MD

Wesley Ho, MD

Marianne LaBarbera, MD

Andrew Symons, MD

Nikolay Teleten, MD

Donna Denley (staff)

Excused:
Charles Francis, DO

Russell Perry, MD

Absent:

Joseph Robert Carbone, MD

Reeva Makhijam

Linette Rosario, MD

Kristina Ursitti, DO

  • Introduce Members & Guests
  • Review of approved Minutes of March 3, 2013 Meeting
  • Review Mission and Purpose of Membership Commission
  • The Commission's charge is articulated in Section 5 of our bylaws:
  • This commission shall consider applications for membership and continuation of membership and investigate the qualifications of applicants.
  • It shall monitor county chapter activities and organize county chapters in areas where no such chapters exist.
  • It will identify and develop proposals for member benefits, review proposals by staff and implement any member benefits programs approved by the Board of Directors
  • Responsible for working with Staff/Speaker/Vice-Speaker to plan the Congress of Delegates.
  • WEBSITE
  • Projects to take on
  • Calendar on top
  • Symons – student, Kenmore NY
  • Teleten – residents
  • LaBarbera - Calendar formats, discuss all conferences and meetings which should be represented with staff
  • Dunn - residency chapters, work on dialog, consider require resident chapters to have a faculty advisor
  • Keber – Education and Events
  • Ho – Resources – to make it easier to search
  • Nosal - previous COD resolutions multi-year, member friendly - what is it about?
  • Staff Responsibilities – needs weekly review
  • Membership Responsibilities
  • please send edits that you notice
  • assign one key section to each Membership member, due in August
  • Updates from Staff - NYSAFP Career Center - Career Center does not provide as much income as HealthECareers so back to previous format
  • MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS - Advancing our Specialty, Saving Members Time, Maximizing Values of our Dues
  • Representation at the AAFP
  • RepresentationRepresentation of the local county chapters at the NYSAFP Congress of Delegates.
  • Promotion of Family Medicine in the Medical Schools and support of student programs.
  • Support of Family Medicine Residency & Fellowship Training Programs.
  • Representation of Family Medicine in the Federal & State legislatures and policy makers through the PAC.
  • Membership Benefits – Saving Members Time
  • Hosting of relevant and interactive CME workshops.
  • Hosting of ALSO Instructor and Provider courses
  • Opportunity to interact with fellow Family Physicians throughout the state.
  • Reliable source of relevant and current events
  • Weekly e-Newsbrief
  • Quarterly peer reviewed journal – Family Doctor
  • Timely access to current events of academy via social media
  • Membership Benefits – Maximizing the Values of our Dues
  • Sponsorship of students and residents to academy meetings (Winter Weekend, Regional Family Medicine) and the Congress of Delegates
  • Cultivation of the next generation of family physicians by offering scholarships and awards to pre-medical students, medical students, and residents to participate in family medicine conferences and programs.
  • Support of Residents and New Physicians in development of leadership skills and practice opportunities
  • Needed updates to web page reviewed
  • Web Presence
  • Facebook -
  • Twitter -
  • Membership Update – from National
  • Review Reports from AAFP
  • Graduating Residents Survey
  • Census Report (and layout for reference; attached)
  • Membership Update – from New York
  • Numbers reviewed (below)
  • ACTION ITEM: Concept of holding similar standards for reduced dues on state level for conditions of financial hardship - if determined appropriate by national for reduced dues then same at state.Medical students in state
  • Congress of Delegates 2013/ Town Hall
  • Survey results
  • Schedule for 2014?
  • Will increase room block to 60 rooms for next year regardless of venue
  • Must Implement/Change for 2014
  • ACTION ITEM: Must Implement/Change for 2014 - credentialing voting attendees and designated ballots
  • collaborate with Leadership regarding resident leadership training
  • collaborate with Operations regarding orientation for new attendees
  • Possible TOPICS:
  • Bruce Bagley - request him to be our guest, excellent speaker on many topics
  • ICD-10
  • Affordable Care Act - Impact of Insurance Exchange
  • Meaningful Use Stage 2
  • Other
  • Journal: Fall/winter – Call for Authors
  • Looking for Authors
  • Sports Medicine
  • New Business
  • Resurrecting county chapter activities combined with the residency programs
  • Residency meet and greet of physicians in the community looking to hire - additional info to be offered by Dr. Symons
  • PBRN - links to practice based research network as a benefit

Membership Counts

Jul-13 / Feb-13 / Jan-13 / Dec-12 / Oct-12 / Sep-12 / Aug-12
Active / 2547 / 2546 / 2547 / 2557 / 2561 / 2506 / 2509
Student / 1189 / 1491 / 1441 / 1375 / 1213 / 1146 / 1085
Inactive / 38 / 30 / 27 / 22 / 14 / 63 / 64
Life / 278 / 280 / 279 / 277 / 272 / 270 / 271
Resident / 502 / 672 / 669 / 666 / 657 / 658 / 605
Supporting / 19 / 20 / 20 / 18 / 18 / 18 / 18
TOTAL / 4575 / 5039 / 4983 / 4915 / 4735 / 4662 / 4552

Best Prospects

Of the 1001 on the most recent AAFP list, the following are reasons for termination:

Lack of CME – 33

Dues non-payment – 780

Other – 25

Resigned – 15

Transfer – 1

Blank – 147

The AAFP pursues the ‘Lack of CME’ and ‘Dues non-payment’.

Respectfully Submitted,

Sarah C. Nosal, MD, FAAFP

Membership Chair