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Southern Medical Association Announces
Focus of Advocacy, Leadership, Quality, & Professional Identity
SOURCE: Southern Medical Association
1:24PM, March 28, 2008
Birmingham, AL – The Executive Committee of the Southern Medical Association announces four major areas of importance in which it will endeavor to impact the medical community. As always, Southern Medical Association’s physicians are considered valued members, as well as an asset as they associate themselves as a part of the vanguard of medical excellence for which SMA is prestigiously regarded. Therefore, during the several months following its centennial celebration in 2006, SMA’s leadership embarked on a concentrated effort to assure SMA will remain an important part of the professional development of physicians. After arduous sessions where grass roots information from our members was studied and woven into a plan of action, the four areas of impact include:
• Advocacy – For patients and always for physicians, in essence, a grass roots level effort affecting individual practice issues
• Leadership – The SMA Leadership Development Program will emphasize leadership skills for change where needed, but also for holding the line where external forces plan change beyond the limits of professional character and values
• Quality – SMA’s Continuing Medical Education Programs, providing not only guidelines for quality-control, but also individual applications for quality-assurance of the best outcomes across the continuum of care in atypical solutions
• Professional Identity – The target areas noted above will be accomplished by the development of communities of specialty practice and by weaving the totality of the talents of our entire membership into communities of interest to impact the broad issues of medicine whether clinical, societal or economic.
As Southern Medical Association promotes the health of patients through advocacy, leadership, education, and service, SMA invites other healthcare professionals to participate in these monumental endeavors. Through the initiation of Communities of Practice, physicians are guaranteed a forum and a voice, and that your professional needs will be heard and supported. Physicians will also find opportunities for career advancement through the most up-to-date communication methodologies as SMA provides convenient, collegial, face-to-face opportunities for which the organization has been known for over 100 years.
As we value Advocacy, Leadership, Collegiality, and Innovation, we believe that physicians must be advocates for their patients and provide the leadership necessary to promote better healthcare in their communities; that education and scholarly interactions must be conducted in a collegial, supportive environment; and that collaboration and innovation in healthcare delivery will best serve our patients as we work together to attain optimal health.
Southern Medical Association is proud to continue to build on the foundation of providing for the professional needs of physicians facing the demands of practice in today’s medical community. With the addition of the targeted areas of focus, SMA will continue to promote the health of patients through, advocacy, leadership, education and service by providing Medallion Level educational programs designed to improve clinical outcomes and build physician leaders both in practice and in community; by providing access to products, services, and resources to enhance and build practice efficiency and success; and, by providing security and support through insurance plans and retirement programs.
Southern Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians and as an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Alabama State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. For more information visit www.sma.org.
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www.sma.org
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