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SGIM Annual Report Available Online
The 2014-2015 SGIM Annual Report is now available on the SGIM website.Detailed reports are accessible for members only but an Executive Summary is available online.Check out the information here.
Interested in the most notable achievements from the work of the Council and the SGIM Volunteer Committees? Read more about this here.
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Teaching Value in Health Care Learning Network
The ABIM Foundation and Costs of Care has launched the Teaching Value in Health Care Learning Network. It's a growing community of students, residents and medical educators working to identify promising practices and ideas to advance stewardship competencies in medical education.
As part of the community ABIM is hosting monthly chats with medical educators via Google Hangouts. Learn more about the community by clicking here.
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SGIM Members in the News
Karen DeSalvo Nominated to be Assistant Secretary for Health
The White House has nominatedDr. Karen DeSalvoto be assistant secretary for health at HHS. If confirmed by the Senate, DeSalvo would leave her post as head of the department's Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
DeSalvo was hired to lead the ONC in 2013. Last year HHS made her acting assistant secretary for health and tasked her with helping the administration manage the department's Ebola response.Read the full article here.
Congratulations Karen!
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Annual Meeting Follow-Up!
CME Information
The annual meeting website now has important post-meeting information for you - how to apply for CME, get a receipt for submissions or registration fees.
Want a handout? A copy of a presentation? It's all online at http://connect.sgim.org/annualmeeting/home
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Did You Present an Abstract at the
Annual Meeting?
All abstracts presented at the SGIM annual meeting are published in a special supplement of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.To view the supplement and find your citation, pleaseclick here.
You can also view all of the poster presentations online through the ScholarOne Itinerary Builder.No login is required.
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ProudtobeGIM
At the annual meeting, SGIM previewed its new ProudtobeGIM campaign, aimed at getting more medical students to join us in the field of general internal medicine.While we plan a full launch at the end of the summer, a lot of information is currently available online at www.proudtobegim.org.
Interested in joining us at your institution as part of the grassroots pilot project?Contact Francine Jetton, SGIM Communications Director, at jettonf@sgim.org.
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News from the Regions
Midwest: TheCall for Submissions is now open! The deadline to submit your work is Tuesday, June 9th at 11:59 pm EST. For more information, visit theMidwest Call for Submissions Page.
Upcoming Meeting Dates:
Midwest (August 27-28, 2015) - Cleveland Convention Center in Cleveland, OH
Mountain West (October 2, 2015) - Fulginiti Pavilion for Humanities in Healthcare, University of Colorado in Aurora, CO
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