Benefits for Non-Physician Health Care Professionals
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Non-Physician Affiliate Members
Non-Physician Affiliate membership is available to licensed non-physician health care professionals working on a patient-care team led by an MD, DO, or a physician holding an internationally equivalent degree and who maintain their professional credentials to practice. Eligible professionals include: physician assistants, nurse practitioners and other advanced practice nurses, registered nurses, pharmacists and doctors of pharmacy, and clinical psychologists.
ACP Resources for Non-Physician Affliates
- Clinical Guidelines
ACP produces highly-respected, evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Recent topics include: Hormonal Testing and Pharmacologic Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction, Screening for HIV in Health Care Settings, and Using Second-Generation Antidepressants to Treat Depressive Disorders. Free to members. - ACP’s Clinical Skills Program offers a variety of training programs on office-based procedures, physical examinations, and communication skills at ACP's annual Internal Medicine Meeting, or through videos and training modules. Topics include: Clinical Breast Examination, Common Skin Biopsy Techniques, and more. Clinical Skills training is included in the Internal Medicine meeting registration, or by purchasing a video at a member discount.
- PIER is an online decision support tool offering more than 490 modules focusing on the treatment of disease. Evidence-based, regularly updated, CME credit available. Free to members.
- Annals of Internal Medicine, the leading internal medicine journal, publishes original research reviews, clinical guidelines, commentaries, and essays related to the practice of internal medicine. Annals also includes two regular monthly features, In the Clinic, a review of best practices for managing common clinical conditions, and ACP Journal Club which offers reviews of the most clinically relevant and highest quality new studies from more than 130 journals. Free online access to Affiliate members.
- ACP JournalWise is a new mobile-friendly website that helps you stay on top of the medical literature from around the world. You set up your preferences by specialty area, and JournalWise alerts you when important new journal articles are reviewed. The mobile format makes it easy for you to check in whenever you have a few minutes for reading. You can’t read it all, so we do it for you! Free to members.
- ACP Internist & ACP Internist Weekly report on new developments in clinical medicine, practice management, and public policy, along with updates on College initiatives. The Weekly edition is delivered via email every Tuesday. Free to members.
- ACP Hospitalist & ACP HospitalistWeekly keeps readers current on all aspects of hospital medicine, including: clinical issues, career trends, research, and practice management. The Weekly edition is delivered via email every Wednesday. Free to members. You must sign up for a free subscription to these publications.
- MKSAP 15 reinforces the information you know and helps you identify topics that need additional work with over 1,000 pages of syllabus text, nearly 1,100 brand new multiple-choice questions. Discount for members.
- ACP’s Patient Education Resources include printed HEALTH TiPS that help patients to ask their physician questions related to their conditions, VIDEO HEALTH TiPS, which are short, easy to understand, patient-centered health literate videos, and Everyday Self Management Guides that teach patients how to manage their chronic illnesses. Free to members.
- Internal Medicine Meeting
ACP's annual Internal Medicine meeting is the premier meeting for the specialty and offers over 200 educational sessions in internal medicine and its subspecialties. ACP members save up to $30 on registration.
- MKSAP® 15
MKSAP 15 contains nearly 1,100 multiple-choice questions based on realistic scenarios that you're likely to encounter. MKSAP 15 is available as an 11-book set and a digital format featuring: full-text searching, multimedia tutorials. ACP members save significantly on the purchase price of MKSAP.
- Center for Practice Improvement and Innovation
ACP's Center for Practice Improvement and Innovation (CPII) provides members with a series of tools, guides and resources spanning a full spectrum of business- and quality-related topics focused on aiding members in the enhancement of their practices. Free to members. - AmericanEHR Partners
AmericanEHR Partners is a FREE resource to help ACP members compare, evaluate and select a certified EHR system for their practice. Free to members. - Quality Improvement Programs
ACP offers two Web-based QI programs that focus on specific clinical conditions, designed for both the individual physician and practice teams, these programs provide the educational tools and training to improve your practice and patient outcomes. Programs involve: web-based learning, content and coaching from national experts, evaluate actual practice data to identify gaps, progress reports over the course of the study. Free to members. - Medical Home Builder
ACP's Medical Home Builder (MHB) provides affordable online guidance for practices involved in incremental quality improvement changes - or significant practice transformation. The MHB also provides guidance in setting up a new practice. With an intuitive web-based interface, the self-paced program guides practices through a simple, yet thorough, process for practice evaluation. Discount for members. - Medical Laboratory Evaluation
ACP's U.S.-based Medical Laboratory Evaluation (MLE) program provides Proficiency Testing services for those who perform diagnostic testing where blood and bodily fluids are drawn. Annual administration fee of $75 waived for ACP members.
ACP Chapters & Regions
The College conducts many of its activities through local units called chapters and regions. In addition to implementing local programs, most chapters hold an annual scientific meeting known as a chapter meeting. ACP chapter meetings provide a forum for updating clinical knowledge and skills, exchanging ideas, discussing issues, earning CME credit, and hearing from your local Governor about topics important to you. ACP has international chapters in: Brazil, Canada, Central America, Chile, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.
ACP Advocacy
ACP is committed to supporting efforts that improve the practice of internal medicine. Our mission is to enhance the quality and effectiveness of health care by fostering excellence and professionalism in the practice of internal medicine.
Advocates for Internal Medicine Network
The College greatly depends upon year-round grassroots support from over 7,000 ACP Advocates for continued success on Capitol Hill. Advocates communicate with their members of Congress on issues of importance to medical students, internists and their patients, and report the results back to ACP.Legislative Action Center
The web-based Legislative Action Center gives members an easy way to respond to current ACP legislative alerts, find out who their federal legislators are, and compose an e-mail or call their members of Congress.The ACP Advocate
Edited by the College's Washington, D.C. Governmental Affairs Division, The ACP Advocate is a bi-weekly, e-newsletter created to provide ACP members with news about public policy issues affecting internal medicine and patient care.The ACP Advocate Blog
Bob Doherty, ACP's senior vice president of Governmental Affairs and Public Policy, writes a weekly blog that invites commentary on provocative and intriguing health policy discussions. It seeks to inform readers and to elicit commentary from across the political spectrum.Member Directory
Reach out to other ACP members through Member Connection, the ACP Member Directory (login required). This searchable directory provides contact information for all ACP members, and access is only available to ACP members.
Social Media
ACP is now on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. Connect with your colleagues, discuss issues relevant to internal medicine, and get the latest news and special offers from the College.
ACP Internist, ACP Hospitalist, and Bob Doherty, author of The ACP Advocate Blog, are also on Twitter sharing the latest clinical news and policy issues affecting internal medicine.
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Group Insurance Discount
ACP members are eligible to apply for competitively-priced group insurance plans, offered through Marsh U.S. Consumer. - ACP Logo and Gift Items
ACP members can purchase specially-designed College logo gift items. For information and to see gift items, visit the ACP Logo Items section of ACP Online. Available for purchase.
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