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Nominations for SGIM Leadership 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, Treasurer-elect, and two Council members.

Candidates for president-elect or treasurer-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; and dedication to advancing SGIM's mission.

Candidates for the Council positions should be innovators and collaborators and have prior evidence of contributing to SGIM at the national or regional levels. All candidates should be recognized as persons who are reliable and able to deliver on their commitments.

Nominate your respected colleagues or yourself if you are interested.

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ACLGIM Leadership Summit

December 7-9, 2014

Come join us for a retreat in the quiet reflective setting of Sanctuary at Camelback Mountain.The theme of this year's ACLGIM Winter Summit is "Celebrating the Strength and Success of Leadership in General Internal Medicine" General internists across the country have played key roles within their own institutions, regionally and nationally in improving access to care, reducing healthcare disparities, shaping and implementing health care reform, and developing innovative approaches to medical education. Our SGIM/ACLGIM community members have many inspiring and informative stories of success. More on ACLGIM Summit.

6th Annual Academic Hospitalist Academy

Calling all academic hospitalists! The 6th Annual Academic Hospitalist Academy will be held October 20-23rd in Englewood, CO.For more information and testimonials from AHA alumni, visit www.academichospitalist.org.

National Health Service Corps Applications

The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) is accepting applications for its Students to Service Loan Repayment Program to help medical students reduce their debt after residency. The program provides up to $120,000 to fourth-year medical students in return for a commitment to work full time for at least three years in an approved NHSC site in a Health Professional Shortage Area of greatest need. Students also can apply to receive $60,000 to work part time for at least six years at an approved site. The application deadline is Nov. 13.Click here for more information.

Submissions of Workshops, Updates and Interest Groups Close October 6.

Deadline to submit is October 6, 2014 at 8:59 AM EASTERN TIME

Want to help plan the annual meeting? All SGIM members are eligible to review submissions.Visit the SGIM Volunteer Centerand download the 2015 annual meeting peer review volunteer form and send it in.

The deadline to volunteer to review Abstracts, Vignettes and Innovations is November 12, 2014.

Review period is January 13-27, 2015.

SGIM VA-Affiliate Members:

The 2015 meeting is in Toronto, ON CA, April 22-25, 2015.

1) ACEs registration is now open for the meeting for VA attendees. The closing date is December 1, 2014.

2) The additional wrinkle for this meeting is that because it is in Canada, you also have to apply simultaneously for a Government passport, which is a separate process from getting approval through ACES. The website suggests a minimum of 60 days to get the passport. Make sure you discuss the process with your Education/Travel office if you have never traveled on a government passport before.

Please note: If you are traveling on University, Non Profit Corporation or Personal funds, you do not have to request approval through the ACES system. The ACES system is only for trips funded with VA appropriated dollars.

Please visit the VA Task Force websitefor the most up to date information about VA travel to the 2015 SGIM Annual meeting.

Join SGIM for "Virtual Hill Day" to Advocate for SGR Repeal and Payment Reform

The SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act, currently before Congress, represents the first bipartisan, bicameral legislation to repeal the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula that reimburses physicians based on volume, not the quality of care they provide.

The SGIM-sponsored National Commission on Physician Payment Reform (http://physicianpaymentcommission.org/) has re-issued theirreport today, providing a framework for repeal and many of the report's additional recommendations are included in the legislation.SGIM leaders will be joined by leadership from the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians for a briefing today on Capitol Hill to address whyCongress needs to act this year and resolve this issue once and for all.

Click here to read the press release on the event.

Send a Letter to Congress!!:In light of the report's re-issuance, SGIM is mobilizing its membership to support the recommendations.

• Join us today by sending an email to your Congressional representatives
• Tweet with the handle @SocietyGIM and hashtag #FixSGRNow on Twitter

TEACH and LEAD Calls for Applications

Looking to improve your skills? SGIM offers the following one year hybrid in-person and online certificate programs:

• LEAD -for junior to mid-career faculty wanting to further develop leadership skills. To learn more visithttp://www.sgim.org/aclgim-tools--programs/lead.
• TEACH - for junior clinician educators wanting to improve their teaching skills. To learn more visitwww.sgim.org/go/TEACH. *

*Attendance is required at two consecutive annual meetings with online activities during the year between.

Peer review is JGIM's engine of quality. The journal depends on volunteer peer reviewers to advise the editors on manuscript originality, validity, and impact.

If you are not enrolled as a JGIM peer reviewer, or if you are enrolled but have not reviewed for a while, give us a holler! Associate Managing Editor Rebecca Berry is taking names; please write her at jgimsupp@iupui.edu.

JGIM peer reviewers can earn CME credits through the University of Alabama. Beyond that, you will have our everlasting gratitude.

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