Bylaws
Functions
To study and evaluate all aspects of medical education continuum, including the development of programs approved by the House of Delegates, to ensure an adequate continuing supply of well-qualified physicians to meet the needs of the public;
To review and recommend policies for medical and allied health education, whereby the AMA may provide the highest education service to both the public and the profession;
To consider and recommend means by which the AMA may, on behalf of the public and the medical profession at-large, continue to provide information, leadership, and direction to the existing inter-organizational bodies dealing with medical and allied health education; and
To consider and recommend the means and methods whereby physicians may be assisted in maintaining their professional competence and the development of means and criteria for recognition of such achievement.
Membership
Twelve active members of the AMA, at least one of whom shall be a private practitioner of medicine who is not a salaried faculty member of a medical school, one of whom shall be a resident/fellow physician, and one of whom shall be a medical student.
Nomination and Election
Members of the Council, except the medical student member, shall be elected by the House of Delegates. The Board of Trustees shall nominate two or more eligible members for each vacancy on the Council, and further nominations may be made from the floor of the House.
Separate Election
The resident/fellow physician member of the Council, as well as the private practitioner of medicine who is not a salaried faculty member of a medical school on the Council on Medical Education shall each be elected separately. A majority of the legal votes cast shall be necessary to elect. In case a nominee fails to receive a majority of the legal votes cast, the nominees on subsequent ballots shall be determined by retaining the two nominees who received the greater number of votes on the preceding ballot and eliminating the nominee(s) who received the fewest votes on the preceding ballot, except where there is a tie. This procedure shall be continued until one of the nominees receives a majority of the legal votes cast.
Term
Members other than the resident/fellow physician and medical student members:
Members of the Council on Medical Education other than the resident/fellow physician and medical student member shall be elected for terms of four years.
Resident/fellow physician member:
The resident/fellow physician member of the Council on Medical Education shall be elected for a term of three years. If the resident/fellow physician member ceases to be a resident/fellow physician at any time prior to the expiration of the term for which elected, the service of such resident/fellow physician member on the Council shall thereupon terminate, and the position shall be declared vacant.
Medical student member:
The medical student member of the Council on Medical Education shall be appointed for a term of one year. If the medical student member ceases to be enrolled in an educational program at any time prior to the expiration of the term for which elected, the service of such medical student member on the Council shall thereupon terminate, and the position shall be declared vacant.
Tenure:
Members of the Council on Medical Education may serve no more than eight years. The limitation on tenure shall take priority over a term length for which the member was elected.
Members other than the resident/fellow physician and medical student member:
Any vacancy among the members of the Council other than the resident/fellow physician and medical student shall be filled at the next Annual Meeting of the House of Delegates. The successor shall be elected by the House of Delegates for a four-year term.
Resident/fellow physician member:
If the resident physician member of the Council ceases to complete the term for which elected, the remainder of the term shall be deemed to have expired. The successor shall be elected by the House of Delegates for a three-year term.
Commencement of term:
Members of the Coucil who are elected by the House of Delegates shall assume office at the close of the meeting at which they are elected.
Term of resident/fellow physician or medical student member:
A resident/fellow physician or medical student member of the Council who completes residency or fellowship or who graduates from an educational program within 90 days prior to an Annual Meeting shall be permitted to serve on the Council until the completion of the Annual Meeting. Service on a Council as a resident/fellow physician or medical student member shall not be counted in determining maximum Council tenure.
