Why AHME?

AHME provides a personal and virtual 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, educational events, publications, and resources designed to promote sharing of information that challenges the participants to resolve issues that medical educators face each day. These educational events and resources 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; designated institutional officials; chief academic officers; deans; administrators; coordinators and managers of medical education.

What are the benefits?

• The annual Spring Educational Institute serves as a focal point 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.
• AHME's Membership Directory is a veritable "Who's Who" in hospital medical education and provides information to facilitate communication among colleagues within hospital medical education.
• AHME News, a bi-annual newsletter, provides members with updates on AHME's educational programs, council and membership activities and highlights key topics and changes within medical education.
• Transitional Year Program Directory, currently in transition to a member-only benefit, provides one-page descriptors of Transitional Year programs for residency training sponsored by AHME members only.
• Guide to Medical Education in the Teaching Hospital - an electronic publication offering a wealth of information from basic concepts and vocabulary to functions of medical education in the teaching hospital and changes in requirements.
• Councils enable members to focus on issues related to specific professional roles or disciplines. AHME features four councils to meet the needs of niche populations within its membership, including the Council of Administrative Directors of Medical Education (CADME), Council on Continuing Medical Education (CCME), Council on Medical Education 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 $2,000 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.

Associate Membership
An associate membership is available to only those non-members who register for the Spring Educational Institute and pay the non-member rate. Associate members are entitled to the full benefits of AHME membership; however this is a short-term membership option that expires on October 31st of that year. Should the Associate Member wish to continue his/her association with AHME, he/she must join as an Individual Member or as part of an Institutional Membership.

Resident Membership
Any individual who is a verified resident at an institution that has an Institutional Membership or has Individual Members is qualified for membership in AHME. Resident members pay no dues and are not eligible to vote or to hold office in the association. Resident members may attend the AHME Educaitonal Institute at a reduced rate.

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.

Honorary Membership
Any individual may be nominated for Honorary Membership through the Member Services Division on the basis of outstanding service in the field of medical education or to AHME. Honorary members shall be appointed for life and shall have all of the rights of active members, but they shall not be required to pay dues and they may not hold office. Past presidents and past council chairs, upon retirement, are eligible for consideration as Honorary members. Honorary members may attend the AHME Educational Institute at a reduced rate.

For answers to your membership questions, contact Karen Zagar, Member Services Coordinator, at AHME Headquarters -- Karen@AHME.org or call 724-864-7321. To apply for membership, click on Membership Application above and either complete and submit a pdf membership application or apply online now.