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SGIM Membership Survey Now Open!

Attention Members! SGIM is seeking your feedback in the 2014 SGIM Membership Survey.All current members will soon receive an email with directions to complete this 15-20 minute survey.Complete the survey and enter a raffle for 2015 membership OR 2015 annual meeting registration!

We appreciate your honest feedback and your continued dedication to GIM!

SGIM Forum - October Theme Issue on LGBT Awareness

With this issue of Forum, SGIM members reaffirm their commitment to just, equitable, patient-centered health care for all regardless of race,ethnicity, or gender identity. We would like to give special thanks to the LGBT Health Interest Groupleaders Rita Lee, MD and Doug Olson, MD, for their contributions and guidance in planning this important issue.

View the issue in full here.

Last call for Academic Hospitalist Academy

Why attend the AHA? This infographic has all the facts.

Register today at academichospitalist.org

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.

Attention GIM Fellowship Directors!

SGIM is launching its third year of the "Investing in GIM" membership program in its effort to engage the next generation of academic GIM professionals. This program offers one year of complimentary membership to first year GIM fellows. If you are a Fellowship Director (or first year fellow) and would like to learn more about this program, please contact Jillian Gann, Director of Membership atgannj@sgim.org.

We are looking forward to 2015...

Renew your membership today!

The 2015 membership renewal period is now open!
Renew your membership and update your membership profile today!

Upon logging in, please take a few moments to update your membership profile. Member profile information allows SGIM to understand your role in GIM and better serve as your "professional home."

We strive to ensure that you receive information that may be of interest to you, build communities for those interested in similar issues, and improve search functions of the membership directory.Your membership makes a difference and we value your contribution to improve patient care, education and research!

Questions about your membership? Contact Jillian Gann, Director of Membership.

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.

Record Number of Workshop Submissions Received!

We received 173 workshop submissions - the highest since 2003!Our 193 reviewers surely have their work ahead of them.

Thanks to everyone who submitted.

Support the SGIM Annual Meeting - Review in January

We will need 500 members to review abstract, vignette and innovation submissions in January.

All members, including associate members are welcome to volunteer.

Reviewing online in ScholarOne is easy; so is volunteering. Just download the form, complete it and send it in.

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.

Cultural Competence and Disparities in Healthcare MOC Now Available

The Maintenance of Certification (MOC) and Disparities task forces are proud to announce a new SGIM-created MOC part 2 module. This MOC module will assess core knowledge about racial, ethnic, and other disparities in health and health care. The module is structured to address the following general content areas:

1) Knowledge of the history of disparities in the U.S.;

2) Use and interpretation of public health data regarding disparities;

3) Best practices regarding doctor-patient communication to minimize disparities;

4) Evidence supporting the persistence of disparities in the US healthcare system and;

5) Regulations and legislation intended to minimize disparities

This module, produced by a collaborative effort by our groups, will be available soon for 10 ABIM MOC "points." Visit the SGIMMOC pagefor more details in the coming months.

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