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-12Active / 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