Association of Chiefs of General Internal Medicine

Defining Goals
The most important meeting was the one held in January 2000 in Chicago. It was sponsored and paid for by the Society of General Internal Medicine. At this meeting we identified the raison d’etre for such a society. The task force defined four goals:

1. Provide professional development through leadership and management training;
2. Provide forums in which to exchange information;
3. Provide personal development and networking for Chiefs;
4. Influence and educate institutional leaders about issues relevant to academic general internal medicine.

Organizing
After the 2000 SGIM Meeting, we formed a steering committee that took several positive steps. We have a set of bylaws, that we will vote on during the San Diego Meeting. These bylaws will allow us to bring our organization into existence as a subgroup of SGIM. This fulfills an important desire most Chiefs of General Internal Medicine have to maintain a strong relationship to SGIM. The advantage of being a subgroup is that we will be able to represent ourselves independently to other organizations but do not have to incorporate separately.

We will also have a slate of nominees to select the first Officers of this Society. We are sponsoring a number of activities at the annual meeting, some specifically for ACGIM members and some for SGIM in general. We were asked to submit and provide judgment on a variety of issues related to leadership for SGIM membersand we have several workshops related to leadership.