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Section News

Section News is a monthly e-newsletter featuring updates from AMA member sections. 

When a section has news, events or educational opportunities they want to share with members, they use AMA Section News. It's a quick, convenient way to stay current regarding the news of your and your colleague's section(s). Submission guidelines are noted below.

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Read the latest issue

Current Issue - November 2024

In this issue:

General news 

  • Last hours to complete the CPSA Survey re Freedom of Expression and CPSA's role 
  • President's tour postponed 
  • Physician Recruitment and Retention Support Program (PRRSP) launched this week 
  • Don't forget! Claim your 2024/2025 CME benefit 
  • Referral information available online for patients through My Personal Records 
  • Canada Post disruption 
  • Renew your AMA membership for 2024/25 
  • Apply today: Canadian Medical Association leadership opportunities 
  • Got a minute? Thank a colleague through JPAC Shine on Gratitude Program

News and updates from:

  • Section of Clinical Assistants
  • Section of Emergency Medicine
  • Section of Family Medicine
  • Section of Internal Medicine
  • Section of Neurology
  • Section of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Section of Palliative Care
  • Section of Pediatrics 

Read the full issue.

Submit an article to AMA Section News

All AMA sections (via their section presidents or representatives) may make submissions to AMA Section News by emailing AMA Section Services.

Examples of typical submission topics include:

  • Practice information (new policies, procedures)
  • Governance announcements, developments
  • Reports on past meetings, conferences and other events or announcements of upcoming meetings, conferences and events

Per standard format for e-newsletters, articles should be a maximum of 200 words in length

To enable the reader to find out more about subjects, e-newsletter articles commonly include hyperlinks to website pages or other newsletters, articles, contact emails, etc.

Articles may be edited (by the AMA Section News editor) for compliance with the AMA writing style guide and other elements/factors that contribute to engaging electronic content.

Common web writing standards include:

  • Brief, engaging copy.
  • Avoid over-use of acronyms, colloquialisms and jargon
  • Begin your article by clearly and concisely identifying the information that is most relevant and of the greatest benefit to your reader. Follow with more details.
  • The use of sub-heads (sub-titles), bulleted lists and bolded words are common techniques in e-newsletters, acting as "alerts" to the reader who may be quickly scanning the e-newsletter.

Submissions may include related graphic images. Please provide an .eps file, if available; .jpeg and .png files should be at least 300 x 300 pixels, to allow for cropping.

AMA Section Services emails section presidents (or their representatives) once a month, to remind them of the submission deadline for the upcoming edition of AMA Section News.

Email your section's submission to: AMA Section Services