Blogs

May Issue of Forum Available Online

This month's Forum covers a variety of topics related to health policy: Medicaid expansion, a personal account of one physician's Hill Day experience, potential changes to graduate education, and tips on becoming a "60 second" advocate.Click here to read the entire issue.

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.

Thank You SGIM Mentors!

Thank you to all those who volunteered to serve as a One-on-One Program Mentor at the 38th Annual Meeting in Toronto! The success of this program is due to the generosity of those SGIM members who are willing to share their insights and experience with others.

Interested in more information on the One-on-One Mentoring Program? Contact Jillian Gann at gannj@sgim.org.

SGIM Members in the News

NIH names Dr. Eliseo Pérez-Stable Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., announced the selection of Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D., as Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). Dr. Pérez-Stable is expected to join NIH in September. (Click here to learn more.) Congratulations Eliseo!!

Annual Meeting Follow-Up!

Thank You for Coming!!!

Thanks to every one of the 1939 attendees for making the meeting a great one. You helped set a new record for the largest opening plenary session in the recorded history of SGIM annual meetings: 1350 attendees!

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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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Evaluate the Meeting and Win Travel Funds!

Let us know what you thought of the annual meeting. Click hereto complete the evaluation.

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.

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.