Spring 2013
TexMed Improves Your Networking Skills
Strategic Networking is the topic of a joint session of the TMA Young Physician Section (YPS) and Resident and Fellow Section during TexMed 2013 May 17 in San Antonio. The one-hour meeting begins at 2 pm in Lone Star Ballroom A on the second level of the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
YPS members attending the presentation by Austin marketing communications consultant Marny Lifshen will learn the skills of building and leveraging a diverse and powerful network to provide access to influencers in their field and their careers. It will help you understand why networking is valuable and how to build relationships with mentors, partners, referral sources, employees, and others.
After the joint session, the YPS will hold a business meeting at 3 pm in Lone Star A. Members of the YPS Executive Council will be elected. Positions available are chair-elect, secretary, four American Medical Association delegates, two TMA delegates, and two alternate TMA delegates. To apply, submit a letter of intent and CV to your section coordinator by May 1.
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Nominate Local Health Stories for TMA Anson Jones, MD, Award
For the first time, members of the TMA family can nominate local journalists for the TMA Anson Jones, MD, Awards, which recognize excellence in health journalism in Texas. So if you see or hear an outstanding health-related TV or radio news story, or read a top-notch news article or blog, let TMA know.
For more than 50 years, TMA has honored award-winning Texas journalists with the Anson Jones, MD, Awards. Until this year, only journalists could submit their work for the awards. Now, TMA physicians, medical students, county medical societies, and TMA Alliance members can nominate them. Any news published or broadcast in 2013 is eligible.
The competition features 11 award categories for reporting in print, broadcast (television and radio), online media, plus a Texas Health Journalist of the Year award. TMA also recognizes physician-reporters with the Physician Excellence in Reporting category. So nominate your colleagues’ outstanding journalism, too.
Submit nominations to ansonjones@texmed.org. Be sure to provide the reporter’s name, date of broadcast/publication, and the media outlet. TMA will alert the reporter to your nomination and urge him or her to complete an award application.
If you have questions, email TMA Outreach Coordinator Tammy Wishard, or call her at (800) 880-1300 ext. 1470, or (512) 370-1470.
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Employed or Solo?
One of the biggest decisions a young physician has to face is whether work for someone else or open a solo practice. TMA’s publication, A Comprehensive Guide for Physician Employment, can help you make that decision.
It will help you decide if employment is the right path for you, take the guesswork out of negotiating and accepting an employment relationship, and leave you confident in your direction as you move forward with your career.
This publication is a must-read to learn the challenges and advantages associated with the business side of medicine and make an educated decision for your career path. It is also an invaluable resource for any physician who is starting a practice, selling a practice, or thinking about making a career move toward employment.
This guide covers in detail:
- The risks, benefits, and other considerations of an employment decision;
- Traditional employment relationships versus newly invented relationships with institutional employers;
- The pros and cons of employment by hospital-sponsored entities;
- Compensation models, restrictive covenants, handling of medical records, and health and liability insurance; and
- The sale of a medical practice to an institutional employer, including such aspects as valuation, deliverables, and liability.
As you consider your options and before you sign an employment agreement, be sure to read this information-packed guide so that you can have the upper hand.
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Michael O'Malley, MD, Award Helps Future Physicians
In 2007, TMA transformed the YPS Rural Scholarship into a memorial scholarship for Michael O’Malley, MD. Dr. O’Malley, a recipient of a similar scholarship himself, was an internal medicine physician in Galveston and past chair of the TMA YPS.
In his memory, this $1,000 award goes to a rural Texas high school senior who excels in science for use toward continuing his or her education in the field of medicine.
To ensure the continued work of this scholarship, make a donation by contacting the TMA Knowledge Center at (800) 880-7955.
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Need a New White Coat?
TMA has partnered with SmartScrubs to offer TMA members a custom website uniform store and exclusive offers on S.C.R.U.B.S. brand apparel. To get started, simply visit www.smartscrubs.com/tma. Once inside the uniform store, navigate the links to choose your coats, tops, pants, and hats.
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Save the Date
The 2013 American Medical Association Young Physician Section annual assembly will be June 14 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago.
Log on to the AMA website as more information becomes available.
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Stay Connected
Keep up with important news and connect with colleagues across the state through the YPS Facebook page.
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