Unfortunately there isn't room in most stories to define them. More importantly, these words alone don't convey how AMA members can take an active role in the policy-making process. The house is composed of 430 voting delegates and an equal number of nonvoting alternate delegates. Delegations from the states, territories and the District of Columbia are apportioned based on AMA membership. Dept. of Veterans Affairs and Public Health Service.
Delegates set policy when they vote on resolutions and on recommendations contained in reports.
They often require further study and result in reports, from either the board or one of seven AMA councils that examine issues in depth. Members of the AMA are welcome to put forward their own policy ideas as resolutions. The best way to propose a resolution is through your county medical society, which can refer the draft resolution to your state society for support. When approved by the state society, it is then sent to the AMA for legal review and for formatting. Once the house meets, resolutions and reports are assigned to one of nine reference committees.