May 2001 Edward D. Harris, Jr., MD, FACP Governor, Northern California Region Challenges and Opportunities for ACP-ASIM in California 2001 to 2005 Back from Atlanta, the Board of Governors meeting and the Annual Scientific meeting. As your newly elected Governor here in the best part of California, there was much to think about and mull over. First, please know that having an involved membership and an enlarging membership is one of my major objectives.
Internal medicine is a wonderful life, a great career with varied opportunities.
The ACP-ASIM is an important voice for all the best of professionalism, scholarly approaches to medicine, and ethical practice. Membership The membership roles have leveled off at 115,000. Of most concern is the drop-off in Associates who join or renew membership. Of course, all these hypotheses were generated by those of us with grey hair and fading memories of our 20's. The Annual Meeting Of our membership of 115,000, fewer than 6000 attend our annual meetings.