The Section on Young Physicians has a liaison to the American Medical Association Young Physician Section. 

The American Medical Association Young Physicians Section (AMA-YPS) focuses on the concerns of those physicians in professional practice and under age 40 or in their first eight years of practice. The AMA-YPS’ goals include:  enhancing young physician practice of medicine, including the transition into practice, facilitating the participation of young physicians in policy development and other activities of the AMA and the Federation and promoting young physician leadership throughout organized medicine.

The YPS works hard to attract young physicians to the AMA and organized medicine. More than 50,000 young physicians belong to the AMA. The YPS also is constantly working with the AMA to develop products and services of interest to young physicians; a guide to these is available. A vital membership outreach program has recruited over 3000 AMA members since the program’s inception.

The YPS helps to develop and carry out policy that will allow physicians to accomplish their highest goal: to provide the best care for their patients. Young physicians need to be particularly active in this venue, given that they will practice medicine well into the next century, and changes in our health care delivery system will have vast effects on them.

The AMA-YPS Assembly, consisting of representatives from each state and nearly 40 specialty societies, meets twice each year in conjunction with the AMA House of Delegates. The Assembly considers resolutions and reports on policy issues, especially those of concern to young practicing physicians, and elects a seven-member Governing Council, which directs the section's affairs.

Finally, promoting young physician leadership is a long-term aim of the YPS. The section was formed in 1986 specifically to increase leadership opportunities for young physicians and to train them for future leadership within organized medicine. The process of getting young physicians into the mainstream is a long one, but the AMA-YPS can count several successes in this effort.

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