Our membership in AMA has enjoyed growth for three years running. Help us make our growth and participation stronger and more effective in “promoting the art and science of medicine and the betterment of the public health.”

The current long-range strategic plan of the AMA focuses on three vital strategic areas:

• Improving Health Outcomes: Targeted first are cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes
• Accelerating Change in Medical Education: To this end, the AMA just announced funding an $11 million grant initiative to 11 medical schools in an effort to match the current education and training of our medical students to the environments in which they’ll practice.
• Enhancing Physician Satisfaction and Practice Sustainability: This will create a better health care system for the country. And to do so with the underlying assumption that a better health system will emerge only if the critical providers – the physicians – have a more satisfying and sustainable practice environment.

I submit that emergency physicians can find favor with all three of these objectives. Go to the AMA to join at https://commerce.ama-assn.org/membership/

Dr. Stennes served as ACEP President from 1985 to 1986.