Section News

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

When section presidents (or their representatives) have news ("Section Updates"), events and educational opportunities they want to tell their members about, 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). (See Submission Guidelines, below)

Current Issue - June 2024

In this issue:

General news

  • AMA unveils new land acknowledgement statement
  • Physician leaders wanted!
  • Discounts on driver's medical exams 
  • Avoid excess lab testing: How you can help
  • You’re invited to join the Physician Health Inclusion space on CMA Community
  • Thank a colleague! JPAC Shine On Gratitude Program
  • AMA in the news

Section of Family Medicine

  • Save the date – Section of Family Medicine Annual General Meeting

Section of General Surgery

  • Registration now open – AAGS Review in the Rockies 2024

Section of Generalists in Mental Health

  • Section update

Section of Laboratory Physicians

  • Save the date – Banff Pathology Course
  • Save the date – ASLP Annual General Meeting (hybrid)

Section of Obstetrics and Gynecology

  • Registration now open: Alberta GYN Endoscopy Symposium

Section of Rural Medicine

  • New AMA award celebrates rural/remote medicine

Submit an article to AMA Section News

Submission Guidelines

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

Formatting

  • 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 files should be at least 300 x 300 pixels, to allow for cropping.

Section News: Submission Deadline Reminder (email)

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.

Who do news items get submitted to?

Email your section's submission to: AMA Section Services

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