| Letter From the President of MCMS |
The statements listed on our homepage may say it best, "The Muscogee County Medical Society is taking a new direction".
It is a challenging task to take an organization that has abundant greatness within it's membership - that has had abundant success in the past, and decide to make a strong change in it's direction. And then execute in a fashion that may sting a little at first while keeping the vision of the stronger future in sight.
Such decisions are neccessary at times.
Along with the Executive Committee, I hope to make 2009 a year in which we transform the Muscogee County Medical Society into an invaluable resource for all of our members.
Decisions such as revamping our entire web presence to include private areas for our members, Online CME, Online Dues Payments, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Feeds to provide a centralized location for news within the medical community, and developing a web based management system for our membership are positive steps in our new direction.
Our focus will be placed upon our membership. Both our existing members, as well as our prospective members - and more importantly, any reason they might have for not currently being a member.
Our immediate goals for 2009 include but are not limited to:
- Offering CME through MCMS
- Engage the alliance
- Reach out to nonmembers to recruit
- Increase visibility in the community
- Comment on treatments discussed in the ledger
- Create a central location for members to list job opportunities
- Work with area colleges/universities to offer pre-med student rotations and exposure to real world medicine
- Develop a purchasing group
- Develop a comprehensive list of area physicians
- Conduct surveys of member offices of practical data (eg. Nurse salaries)
- Develop committees to increase involvement and decrease drop-out
- Have reports of all committees during a business portion of the monthly meeting
- Develop the website to include tasking
- Work with MAG to scrutinize hospital privilege contracts
- Offer legislative comment
- Offer assistance to physicians relocating to this area
Our most important goal for 2009 is to serve our membership at the highest level and make the Muscogee County Medical Society a place where physicians are rewarded with true benefits of membership.
Our door is open and we welcome any suggestions by our membership.
Thank you,
Dr. A.J. Jain
President
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