Why AHME?

AHME provides a forum for members to network, exchange ideas and expertise, and solve the problems of medical education in 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. When you join AHME, you join with other medical education professionals from across the country who share your interests and concerns.

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 AHME 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 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.
• Guide to Medical Education in the Teaching Hospital - an electronic and print 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 interest groups 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, and they 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. Dues are $495 per year.

Associate Membership
An associate membership is only available to those non-members who register for the AHME Institute and pay the non-member rate. Associate membership is an introductory membership and dues are $50 for the period from May 1 through October 31 of that year.  Associate members are entitled to the full benefits of membership but, should the Associate Member wish to continue his/her membership with AHME, he/she must join as an Individual Member or as part of an Institutional Membership the following year.

Sustaining Membership
Organizations whose interests and activities involve medical education at the hospital level may apply for Sustaining Membership.  Dues for this category are $1000 and the organization may designate one representative. Sustaining member representatives are not eligible to vote or hold office in AHME.

Affiliate Membership
State Medical Societies (SMS) that serve as ACCME-Recognized Accrediting Organizations are eligible for affiliate membership in AHME.  Employees of these affiliate members qualify for a discounted individual membership such that the first member pays $150 and each additional member from the SMS would pay $100.  This membership category is not available to the institutions that the SMS accredit or to the individuals based at those institutions.

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 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.