LOUISIANA ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS
Committee Member Application
Are you eligible to serve? If you are a Resident or Active Member, you are! Please review the committee summaries below, and decide where you'd like to be involved.
EDUCATION COMMITTEE: Conduct, develop, assist, and evaluate programs, lectures, courses or other means of continuing medical education for the benefit of family physicians in Louisiana. Evaluate topics for medical education courses available to family physicians in Louisiana to determine if they are of interest to our members.
LEGISLATIVE-MEMBERSHIP ISSUES COMMITTEE: To promote membership interest in the Academy, and to initiate, coordinate, and subsidize membership services made available through the Academy. Evaluate and advise the Board of Directors on issues of concern to minority physicians, women in medicine, new physicians, resident and student members. Formulate and advise the Board of Directors on plans and programs which expand, maintain and improve health care services and standards. Investigate and recommend such action to the Board to insure that the LAFP shall have an active voice on all issues concerning legislation and governmental affairs. Recommend to the Board such campaigns of public enlightenment or education, as it may deem appropriate. Evaluate such issues of ethics as may come before the Academy and to make recommendations to the Board on such ethics issues, as the Board shall deem appropriate. To evaluate and advise the Board on ethical issues and public health issues of immediate concern to family physicians in Louisiana.
OPERATIONS COMMITTEE: Supervise the financial transactions of the Academy by supervising the keeping of the Academy’s accounts, operational costs, and approving all expenditures incurred in maintaining the LAFP headquarters office building including all property. Periodically make a study of the Bylaws and make recommendations for changes, deletions, or modifications in order to maintain the integrity and consistency of the Bylaws. Evaluate Academy projects and recommend to the Board of Directors any initiative which would aid in the long-range planning of the Academy.
Complete and submit the form below. You will be contacted by a representative from the LAFP office.
MEMBER INFORMATION
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INTERESTED IN SERVING ON THE FOLLOWING COMMITTEE:
Education
Legislative-Membership
Operations
EXPLAIN WHY YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THIS COMMITTEE:
What special skills, experiences and contributions will you bring to the LAFP as a potential Committee Member?
What do you hope to gain from the experience?
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