Category: Members
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Alabama Physician Health Program Announces Reorganization
The Alabama Physician Health Program, the Medical Association’s confidential resource for physicians and other medical professionals with potentially impairing conditions or illnesses, recently announced a reorganization and new staff to better protect the health, safety and welfare of those it serves. The APHP provides confidential consultation and support to physicians, physician’s assistants, residents and medical…
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Organized Medicine: Why Physician Membership is More Important Now than Ever Before.
“There’s strength in numbers” is a saying we all know well. Whereas one person can say something, it becomes a much more powerful display when more people join together in support or protest. In the past, it was not unusual for physicians to be members of their county medical society, specialty society, state medical association,…
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Annual Session Poster Symposium Winner Presents in Hawaii…and Wins!
Dr. Bradley Wills, who originally received first place at the Medical Association’s Second Annual Poster Symposium in April for his poster entitled Outcomes with Overlapping Surgery at a Large Academic Medical Center, presented his research poster at the 2017 AMA Interim Meeting in Honolulu in November and won the Resident-Fellow Section Division for Clinical Medicine.…
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Centreville Physician Receives National Recognition
Centreville physician John Waits was the only Alabama physician to be recognized by the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health’s 2017 Community Stars Program. Dr. Waits was one of 31 honorees during the 2017 National Rural Health Day working tirelessly to improve, protect and advance health and wellness in our rural communities. Dr.…
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Young Physicians Have New Opportunities at Annual Meeting
The 2017 Annual Meeting and Business Session added a separate educational track designed specifically for Young Physicians, Resident-Fellows and Medical Students to allow this group of young medical professionals the opportunity to meet established physicians as well as network with other colleagues from across the state. And, there’s great news…we’re planning to do it again…
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Match Day 2017 Successful for Alabama’s Medical Students
MOBILE — The excitement was thick in the ballroom of the Arthur R. Outlaw Mobile Convention Center on in March for Match Day. What is perhaps the most important day for each graduating medical school student can also be the most stressful. This day serves as a focus of celebration for medical schools and students…
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Haleyville Physician Installed as President for 2017-2018
MONTGOMERY – Boyde Jerome “Jerry” Harrison, a family practitioner from Haleyville, was formally installed as president of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama during the 2017 Inauguration, Awards Presentation and 50-Year Physician Recognition Dinner last month. “From the time I was a boy, my mother wanted me to get an education, so she…
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Survey: U.S. Physicians Overwhelmingly Satisfied with Career Choice
CHICAGO – The American Medical Association recently announced survey findings that explore the experiences, perceptions and challenges facing physicians in the rapidly changing health care environment. The survey of 1,200 physicians, residents and medical students asked when respondents knew they would become physicians, who encouraged them down that path, what challenges they face professionally, and…
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Medical Association Celebrates Second Annual Doctors’ Day in Alabama
MONTGOMERY – On March 29, Gov. Robert Bentley signed a proclamation declaring March 30, 2017, the Second Annual Doctors’ Day in Alabama formally recognizing Alabama’s nearly 17,000 licensed physicians serving millions of residents through private practice, in hospitals, in research, and in other health care facilities. Doctors’ Day in Alabama, a project sponsored by the…
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