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SGIM Nominations are Open
We need your help in identifying outstanding leaders for SGIM. SGIM's leadership positions offer great opportunities to shape the future of our discipline. This year, we will elect four individuals: President-elect, Secretary-elect, and two Council members.
Candidates for president-elect or secretary-elect should have the following attributes: a strong track record of commitment and service to the Society: proven collaborative leadership skills; the ability to integrate the SGIM's diverse interests; excellent communication skills (president); and dedication to advancing SGIM's mission. Candidates for the Council positions should be innovators and collaborators but also reliable. All candidates should be recognized as persons who are able to deliver on their commitments.
WHO: Nominate your respected colleagues or yourself if you are interested. Our Bylaws require that nominees must be Full or Emeritus Members of the Society.
WHERE:In our continued efforts to "go green", we are conducting nominations electronically once again. You will not receive a paper nomination form this year. Please use the link below to submit your nominations online to the SGIM office:
Online Nominations website: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/H8RLSCD
DEADLINE: All nominations must be received by Monday, October 28, 2013 5:00pm EST
The Nominations Committee will review all nominations and develop a final slate of candidates. Any candidate asked to run will be asked to fill out SGIM's Conflict of Interest Policy.
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Forum is Looking for a New Editor!
SGIM is undertaking a search for the next editor(s) of the Society newsletter: SGIM Forum. The term of editorship is from July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2017. The new editor(s) will have responsibility for the August 1, 2014 issue.
Individuals and co-editors are both encouraged to apply. In addition to coordinating publication of the Forum, the Editor(s) is an ex-officio member of the Council and, therefore, attends Council retreats, participates in monthly Council Conference calls, and is an important contributor to Council deliberations and communications. Thus, the position is also a pathway to highly visible Society leadership at a national level.
Junior faculty are encouraged to apply for this position, in concert with a mid-career or senior faculty member who can serve as a mentor.
This position would require approximately 8-10 hours of time per month and may include a stipend of up to $10,000 per contract year (in total, NOT per co-editor if teams choose to apply). The deadline to apply is December 2, 2013. Read the full RFP here.
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SGIM Website Named Outstanding Website by Web Marketing Association
The Web Marketing Association has named the Society of General Internal Medicine as an Outstanding Website.
Founded by the Web Marketing Association in 1997, the WebAwards is the annual standards-defining competition that sets industry benchmarks for the best websites in 96 industry categories submitted by interactive agencies and website marketing departments in more than 47 countries from around the world. The goal of the WebAwards is to provide a forum to recognize the people and organizations responsible for developing some of the most effective websites on the Internet today and to provide a solid point of reference, significant and valuable marketing opportunities and feedback to the professionals whose websites are entered.
As an Outstanding Website winner, Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM.org) engaged Bridgeline Digital to redevelop its main website and consolidate and enhance two microsites run by SGIM affiliate groups: the Association of Chiefs in General Internal Medicine (ACLGIM), and SGIM's Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM). Leveraging iAPPS' out-of-the-box integration with Perceptive Software Enterprise Search, the new site leverages search component catalogs natively within the iAPPS framework and indexes all media types.
This award marks the third time the SGIM website has been nationally recognized for its new, innovative site.Read the whole press release here.
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Annual Meeting
Workshop Submission Numbers are up!
158 workshop submissions were submitted this year, up from 135 last year.
Peer review opens today.
Submitting authors can expect to receive results on or about November 20.
The Call for Abstracts, Vignettes and Innovations will be mailed on November 18.
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News from the Regions
MOUNTAIN WEST
Registration is now open, Mountain West SGIM! University of Colorado Denver's Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado will once again host the Midwest SGIM Regional Meeting on Friday, October 25, 2013. Registration deadline is Wednesday, October 16th, 2013. Please see the "Registration" page of our regional website for more information on how to register for the meeting.
CALIFORNIA-HAWAII
Call for Workshop, Abstract, Vignette, and Innovation Submissions are now closed and in review. Please visit the California-Hawaii region's "Call for Submissions" page of our website at for further information.
NORTHWEST
Call for Workshop, Abstract, Vignette, and Innovation Submissions are now open! Deadline to submit is Friday, November 1st. Please visit the Northwest's "Call for Submissions" page of our website at for further information.
SOUTHERN
Call for Submissions is now closed. Please visit the Southern region's "Call for Submissions" page of our website at for further information.
Calling all volunteers! The Southern SGIM Planning Committee is seeking volunteer reviewers for Vignette review committees. If you are interested in helping with this year's meeting and are a current Southern SGIM member, please email Danielle Josef, SGIM Regional Coordinator, at JosefD@sgim.org as soon as possible. Time commitment for reviewing is currently any time between October 18th and October 30th.
NEW ENGLAND
Save the date, New England SGIM! The 2014 New England Regional Meeting will be held on Friday, March 7, 2014 at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center located on the Harvard University campus in Boston, MA. This year's theme is entitled, "The Modern Generalist."
Call for Workshop, Abstract, Vignette, and Innovation Submissions are now open! Deadline to submit is Tuesday, December 17th. Please visit the New England's "Call for Submissions" page of our website at for further information.
MID-ATLANTIC
Save the date, Mid-Atlantic SGIM! The 2014 Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting will be held on Friday, March 14, 2014 at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, NY. This year's theme is entitled: "Outcomes Based Education and High Value Care: Challenges for Medical Educators in the 21st Century" and our Keynote Speaker will be Dr. Lawrence G. Smith, Dean and Professor of Medicine at Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine.
Call for Workshop, Abstract, Vignette, and Innovation Submissions are now open! Deadline to submit is Tuesday, November 26th. Please visit the Mid-Atlantic's "Call for Submissions" page of our website at for further information.
MIDWEST
Thank you to everyone for a successful meeting in Chicago! If you attended the meeting, information regarding our online CME application and overall Meeting Evaluation has already been sent out to all registrants. Please save the date for next year's meeting in September 2014 and let us know if you have any questions.
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Sincerely,
Francine Jetton
Society of General Internal Medicine
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Apply today for the 2014 TEACH Certificate Program
Applications are now being accepted for the 2014 TEACH Certificate Program. Improve your teaching credentials with TEACH-a longitudinal faculty development program developed by SGIM's Education Committee. Deadline Nov 15th. For details and to apply, visit www.sgim.org/go/TEACH
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AAMC Challenge Programs Announced
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has announced two new challenge programs designed to recognize innovations in medical education, care delivery, research, and diversity and inclusion. AAMC-member medical schools and teaching hospitals are encouraged to apply to both the Learning Health System Challenge and Planning awards, and the Clinical Care Innovation Challenge.
The Learning Health System Challenge awards recognize institutions that have implemented innovative, system-wide processes that improve the opportunity for research within one or more of three research areas (quality improvement research, health equity research, and research that utilizes data from the institution's Electronic Health Record). The Learning Health System Planning awards recognize institutions who wish to enhance capacity in one or more of these three research areas. The application period ends October 30th, 2013. For further information
click here.
The Clinical Care Innovation Challenge awards recognizes transformational clinical care initiatives that lead to improved value and quality. Themes for this Challenge will include innovations in care delivery, payment, and training models. This Challenge will launch the week of October 21. For complete program details and submission guidelines, visit
www.aamc.org.
Winners from both awards programs will be featured at the Sixth Annual 2014 AAMC Integrating Quality Meeting, Which will be held June 12-13 in Chicago, Ill.
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