REPORT OF COUNCIL ON CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS
CCB Report 7-A-06
Subject: Medical Student Special Appointee to Board of Trustees
Presented by: Ira Bell III, MD, Chair
Referred to: Reference Committee on Financial and Organizational Affairs
In November 2001, the Board of Trustees reviewed a directive from the House of Delegates that the board appoint, upon nomination by the Medical Student Section, a medical student member as a nonvoting special appointee to the Board of Trustees to serve a one-year term, and that after three years the board evaluate participation of medical students with a report back to the House of Delegates at its annual meeting in 2005. At the May 2005 Annual Session, the House of Delegates approved a Board of Trustees recommendation that a medical student member continue to be appointed annually to the Board of Trustees to serve a one-year term as a special appointee; that the medical student special appointee serve with full rights of participation, including the right to vote; and that the medical student continue to be selected and appointed employing the process developed by the Board of Trustees and the Medical Student Section.
Recommendation 1 : Amend Chapter 1, Membership, Section 1.208, Student, second paragraph, as follows:
Student members shall have all the privileges of membership except the right to vote and hold elective or appointive positions. However, student members may serve as voting Medical Student Section delegates or alternate delegates; may be elected to the designated position on the association's AMA delegation; may serve as special appointees to the Board of Trustees with the right to vote as provided in 4.20 ; may be appointed to the designated member position on the Committee on Membership; and may serve as special appointees to councils and committees (see 10.38 and 11.30). Student members also may be granted voting privileges on committees of a county medical society, at the discretion of the county society.
Recommendation 2 : Amend Chapter 4, Board of Trustees, Section 4.20, Composition, as follows:
The board shall be composed of nine at-large members elected by the House of Delegates and, as ex officio members: the president, president-elect, immediate past president, secretary/treasurer, speaker of the House of Delegates, and vice speaker of the House of Delegates. At-large members shall not serve as members of other association boards, councils, or standing committees. Trustees may, however, serve as delegates or alternate delegates to the American Medical Association. A medical student member shall be appointed annually, by a process developed by the Board of Trustees and the Medical Student Section, to serve a one-year term as a special appointee with vote. All members of the Board of Trustees shall be ex officio members of the House of Delegates.
TMA House of Delegates: TexMed 2006