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Member Benefits

The ACGIM is a non-profit association of leaders in academic general internal medicine (GIM). It is open to all leaders including clinical directors, associate chiefs, hospital directors as well as research and mentoring leaders who are General Internists. It's a great place to join a community of academic leaders in GIM, to develop your own career and those of others, and to find support during the challenging times of leadership that we all face.

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Member Benefit #1: Leadership and management training:
  • Annual Summit: The purpose of the meeting is for members to develop strategies for addressing common issues in running divisions of GIM and to more effectively influence health policy on issues of core importance to divisions.
  • Annual Management Institute: This event offers a unique opportunity to network among colleagues and to learn new tools and techniques as leaders and managers in Academic GIM.

    • Member Benefit #2: Networking, Information Exchange and Sharing of Resources:
  • Listserv: This electronic exchange of information is critical to sharing information among membership about the latest issues in Academic GIM from management to subject matter content on issues of relevance to the profession.
  • Surveys: Information gathered from these surveys serve as a valuable resource for members to provide benchmarking within academic Divisions GIM. Examples include: Faculty Development Policies, Job Descriptions for GIM leadership positions, and Academic Hospitalists Surveys.
  • Online Resources (Leadership Toolkit): This toolkit is designed to assist to provide useful information to aspiring, new and established leaders.
  • Leadership Forum: This newsletter conveys information about leadership issues in academic medicine.
  • Faculty Promotion Peer Review Service: A coalition of members who have agreed to provide peer review services to members in order to help determine when/if a clinician-educator is ready to go up for promotion and to provide focused review of teaching or administrative portfolios.

    • Member Benefit #3: Influence leaders about issues relevant to Academic GIM:

  • Site Visit Program: This program provides Divisions of GIM and their chairs with an opportunity to observe and make recommendations for improvements in academic GIM. Examples include: University of Colorado; University of Nebraska; The Ohio State University; Albert Einstein College of Medicine and University of Southern California.
  • In academic internal medicine, other titled groups have organizations: Chairs (APM) Association Subspecialty Professors (ASP), Association of Program Directors (APDIM), Clerkship Directors of Internal Medicine (CDIM). These groups come together under an umbrella organization — the Alliance of Internal Medicine (AIM). ACGIM has been invited to join the Alliance. It has been recognized by AIM, particularly the Chairs, that GIM Chiefs have been absent, and have an integral role in clinical care, education and research in academic medical centers. The AIM organizations meet at the fall APM conference.
  • Institutional leaders on the local level. We believe that ACGIM will assist Division Chiefs to deal more effectively with their chairs on a direct basis, and influence hospital, practice plan, and network leaders.