Hyatt Regency Long Island at Wind Watch Golf Club

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

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