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Article: AMA to reinvent itself: but will state and specialty societies support an 'organization of organizations'? (Stat).(American Medical Association)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Modern Physician
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- July 1, 2002
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Physicians will have one less group to join and could have a more unified voice in Washington under a proposed, sweeping reorganization of the AMA approved June 19 by the policy-setting AMA House of Delegates.
Delegates voted to convert the 155-year-old membership organization into an umbrella organization for state, specialty and other medical societies with little, if any, membership of its own.
But the plan to retool the AMA as an "organization of organizations" still lacks crucial details, such as when the change will take place, which of hundreds of specialty and other physician-based societies will be invited to join and how many of them will ...
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