The safety and well-being of our attendees, staff and community continue to be at the forefront of our minds. At this time it is impossible for SGIM to hold our Annual Meeting because of the escalating health concerns regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC and WHO guidelines for social distancing, institutional travel bans, and the vital role of our members and participants in the front lines of care for communities in this crisis.

SGIM will offer full refunds to those who registered to attend the 2020 SGIM Annual Meeting in Birmingham, AL. You also may choose to apply your registration payment toward the 2021 SGIM Annual Meeting or convert your payment to a tax-deductible donation. 

In order to receive a refund, please submit your request by using this form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SGIM2020

If SGIM has not received this form by June 1, 2020, we will automatically issue a full refund to your original method of payment.

If you paid by credit card, refunds will be issued via the original payment method within 60 days of cancellation date. If you paid by check, please allow up to 90 days for a refund as we manage the large numbers of refunds we need to process.  Partial refunds cannot be processed.

If you registered for the ACLGIM Hess Institute and/or ACLGIM Dinner, you may choose to have a full refund or you may apply the amount to a pre-payment of these events at the 2021 Annual Meeting.  If you registered for any additional fee sessions at SGIM20 (POCUS Pre-Course, Civil Rights Museum), you will receive a full refund for these sessions.

Please contact the hotel directly to cancel your room reservations for the SGIM Annual Meeting. You can contact the Sheraton Hotel Birmingham at 1-800-325-3535 and the Westin Hotel Birmingham at 1-800-937-8461. If you have made a reservation at an alternate hotel, you will be responsible for cancelling your reservation at that hotel.

SGIM will not refund flight or travel costs associated with the Annual Meeting.  Please contact your airline or travel coordinator to seek a refund for any flight or related travel costs.

SGIM is currently investigating options for presenting some of the originally scheduled content virtually. More information will be provided once a decision has been made.

All accepted abstracts for SGIM20 will be published in a supplement of the Journal of General Internal Medicine. We expect to see publication of this supplement in summer 2020 and will post information on accessing the supplement when it becomes available.

Question: How should the APA Style reference for an accepted presentation appear on my CV when the conference has been canceled?
Answer: Include the presentation in your CV, as your work was peer reviewed and accepted, but consider which of the following cases is most applicable. Please follow the APA Guidelines found here https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/canceled-conferences

SGIM is working on a plan for how all 2020 award winners will be recognized. Communications will be sent out in the coming weeks. Awards will be shipped directly to recipients.

SGIM is currently investigating options for virtual presentations. We will follow up with presenters when we have more information

Each career development program’s staff liaison will be in contact with their program cohort over the next few weeks to provide additional information about the future of this year’s program cohorts.

SGIM has contacted each of the National Young Scholars applicants directly. Please contact Muna Futur, Director of Member Relations at futurm@sgim.org with any questions.

The One on One Mentoring Program will be postponed until the 2021 Annual Meeting. Those who signed up for the 2020-2022 Career Advising Program (CAP) will receive an email from Jillian Gann, Director of Leadership and Mentoring Programs (gannj@sgim.org) regarding the status of this year's program.

SGIM Director of Development, Leslie Dunne, will follow up by email to answer your questions regarding our exhibit options, including possible online exhibit opportunities. Please refer to the sections above for information regarding the cancellation of hotel, airfare and other travel issues.

SGIM is proud to serve as your professional home. To renew your SGIM membership, please follow the simple steps below:

1. Log into your SGIM Account
2. Under "My Membership" click "Join/Renew SGIM”
3. Select your appropriate “RENEWAL” membership type
• Full Member (US) Members may renew for multiple years by selecting the appropriate renewal type (Example: SGIM Full Member (2 Year) Dues RENEWAL for $750 — a $60 savings)
4. Follow the prompts to renew

While renewing your membership, please take a moment 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. 

Questions? Contact membership@sgim.org or call 800-822-3060.