Leadership Opportunities and Professional Development

Whether you desire to be a leader, make a difference in your organization, or enhance your personal knowledge and skill set, TMA offers professional growth opportunities and leadership support services designed with you in mind.

Leadership Opportunities

• Current TMA Leaders
• Member-developed policy that forms the basis of TMA’s advocacy and public health initiatives 
• Elected and appointed positions to TMA boards, councils, committees, and task forces that lead, study, and recommend action on issues of the day
• Elected county representation in the TMA House of Delegates
• Elected positions on the Texas Delegation to the AMA that represents Texas at the national level
• Leadership opportunities (e.g., section officers, delegates to TMA and AMA, and appointments to TMA boards, councils, and committees); as well as additional opportunities at the local county level

Professional Development

• TMA Leadership College: identifies, orients, and trains TMA members for future leadership positions 
  
• Leadership training at TMA conferences: TexMed, Fall Conference, and Winter Conference
• Message and media training for physicians held around the state
• Conferences, seminars, and CME activities that address current issues and offer a chance to network with colleagues
• Committees ranging from health promotion to child and adolescent health 
• Grassroots lobbying training offered at every First Tuesdays at the Capitol event during a legislative session
• Local programming and events, great for building a referral network

Community of Peers

•  International Medical Graduate, Medical Student, Resident and Fellow, and Young Physician sections, assuring representation of unique physician segments at all levels in the federation of medicine
• Vehicles for communicating and networking with peers statewide, with no additional cost to get involved
• Webpages, Facebook groups, Listservs, Newsletters, and staff resources dedicated to each TMA Section