Career Assistance
Membership guarantees your professional practice needs will be served ... through referral services, practice management workshops and publications, practice development resources, and general legal and business advice and consultation. Among the specific benefits free to members:
- AMA publications on contracts, board certification, CV and job search tips
- Valuable ISMS practice management/contract negotiation seminar
- Expanded Web listing free for members via AMA’s Physician Select
Personal Services
Membership guarantees your personal needs will be met ... through life, health and disability insurance programs. Through finance, investment, and home mortgage programs. And perhaps most important, through the relationships you will develop with your colleagues at home and around the country. Among the specific benefits free to members:
- ISMS members receive a free $10,000 life insurance policy during the duration of residency training, as well as a free long-term disability insurance policy from Physicians’ Benefits Trust (PBT) THAT pays up to $1,000 per month for up to five years for a disability that commences during residency
- Access to AMA Investment Advisers, Inc., as well as AMA Insurance Agency, Inc. and PBT for life, health and other insurance programs at significant savings
- AMA Personalink with comprehensive credit card benefits package, credit lines, home financing and special loan consolidation rates
Valuable Publications
Membership guarantees you will be kept well informed ... about medicine through journals, continuing medical education programs, reference works, video and library services. About professional issues through newspapers, newsletters, mailings, e-mail, and meetings. Among the specific benefits free to members:
- RFS Rounds
- The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) including "Resident Forum", American Medical News, ISMS news publications, County Medical Society news publications
- New Illinois Physicians’ Handbook
- Before You Sign: A Physician’s Guide to Provider Contracts
- Web-access to members only information and services
Advocacy Efforts
Membership guarantees you will be represented ... in state legislatures, in federal agencies, and in Congress. In regulatory boards, and licensing agencies. In areas of reimbursement, professional review, liability, and medical legal issues. Among the specific benefits free to members:
- Participation on ISMS-RFS Governing Council and key ISMS councils and committees
- Members only are eligible to receive advocacy assistance from ISMS staff experts with marketplace, regulatory, legal and related challenges
Phone the Resident and Fellow Section at 312-782-1654 or 800-782-ISMS for information or assistance or e-mail rfs@isms.org.
If you would like to request an application for membership, please click here.