Association for Hospital Medical Education

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Why AHME?

AHME provides a forum for members to network, exchange ideas and expertise, and solve the problems of medical education in community hospitals throughout the country. AHME is a member-driven Organization and sponsors national meetings designed to promote sharing of information that challenges the participants to resolve issues that medical educators face each day. These conferences deal with contemporary issues at both the local and national level. When you join AHME, you join with other medical education professionals from across the country who share your interests and concerns. AHME is the only national organization that meets the needs of the hospital medical educator.

Who can join?

Those eligible for AHME membership include individuals who devote a substantial amount of their professional efforts to medical education programs directed toward improved patient care, and individuals employed to direct or coordinate hospital-based programs of medical education at the undergraduate, graduate or post-graduate level. AHME members include the following: directors of medical education; department chiefs; medical directors; program directors of undergraduate, graduate and continuing medical education; administrators, and coordinators of medical education.

What are the benefits?

The annual Spring Educational Institute serve as focal points for members to network with their peers and exchange information with experts who address current issues in undergraduate, graduate and continuing medical education.
AHME Academies are one-day primers held in various cities around the United States. They are perfect for those new to GME, in a new GME position or returning to the profession.
Membership Directory of who's who in hospital medical education serves as an information resource for members and provides easy way to communicate with colleagues in hospital medical education.
AHME News, a bi-annual newsletter, provides members with updates on AHME's educational programs, council activities and related information about medical education.
AHME Congressional Record provides legislative and regulatory updates from the medical educators perspective.
Transitional Year Program Directory, published annually, provides one-page descriptors of Transitional Year programs for residency training.
Guide to Medical Education in the Teaching Hospital - Electronic Version offers a comprehensive orientation to the basic concepts, vocabulary and functions of medical education in the teaching hospital.
Councils enable members to focus on issues related to specific professional roles or disciplines. They include the Council of Administrative Directors of Medical Education (CADME), Council on Continuing Medical Education (CCME), Council on Medical Edu cation Consortia (COMEC) and Council of Transitional Year Program Directors (CTYPD)

How much does it cost to join?

Institutional membership: Hospitals and other medical education institutions may join AHME as institutional members. Each institution may appoint up to five representatives --- who are involved in medical education --- who will have full active membership in AHME. Dues are $1,900 per year. Additional institutional representatives can be added for the price of $350 each
Individual membership: All individuals who are involved in medical education are eligible for membership in AHME. Individual members can vote and hold office in AHME. Dues are $495 per year.
Sustaining membership: Other organizations whose interests and activities involve medical education at the hospital level may apply for membership and designate one representative. Sustaining member representatives are not eligible to vote or hold office in AHME. Sustaining membership offers various opportunities for supporting AHME at different levels.