Alberta Chapter Receives the 2024 John Tooker Evergreen Award
The John Tooker Evergreen Awards Program provides recognition and visibility to chapters that have successfully implemented programs to increase membership, improve communication, encourage member involvement, enhance diversity, foster careers in internal medicine or improve chapter management. Our Chapter received the 2024 John Tooker Evergreen Award for the initiative, Point-of-Care Ultrasound Webinar Series
Point-of-Care Ultrasound Webinar Series
The point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) webinar series was created to increase the availability of quality, desired, educational offerings for our Chapter. A POCUS Education Council was appointed to guide this work, which in-turn provided unique leadership opportunities for diverse early career physicians and trainees. The webinars occurred monthly to address diverse aspects of POCUS and bring in internationally known speakers to the forum. It has also helped the province unite in preparation for our merger with Manitoba and Saskatchewan, at which time, POCUS and educational experts in those provinces will be invited to join in this work.
2024 Chapter Excellence Award-Silver Level Winner - British Columbia, Ontario, Prairie Provinces and Quebec Chapters
(August 2024) We are pleased to announce that our chapters are in receipt of the Silver Level of the 2024 Chapter Excellence Award! This year 15 chapters received the Silver Award. The award recognizes chapters that achieve excellence in chapter management. In order to achieve the Chapter Excellence Award, chapters must meet 20 Bronze criteria and 14 Silver criteria. Criteria include such activities as undertaking efforts to increase advocacy efforts, collaborating with stakeholders to increase visibility of the ACP, holding competitions for members, providing chapter financial reports to members, having Medical Student and Resident/Fellow members on the Governor's Advisory council, retaining transitional and unpaid members, giving awards to chapter members. We would like to extend a special thanks to those chapter members who assisted us in all of these endeavors! For their hard work and dedication, we received this award.
