Lobby Day

What is Lobby Day?

Lobby Day is an excellent opportunity to increase your awareness of legislative issues affecting medicine, to foster relationships with legislators through political involvement, and to gain real-life education in the practical aspects of physician advocacy. Lobby Day activities, which span two days this year, include interactive educational sessions on effective advocacy and lobbying techniques, briefings on legislative issues currently before Congress, and a full afternoon on Capitol Hill meeting with legislators and their staffs.

2009 Lobby Day Highlights

More than 300 medical students, residents, and fellows attended this year's Lobby Day, March 8-9, at L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, D.C. Attendees met with the offices of nearly 250 members of Congress to make heard the voice of physicians in training on a number of important issues.

Highlights of this year's Lobby Day included:

See the full Lobby Day agenda (PDF)

Lobby Day activities were covered by MedPage Today, which produced the following story:


Further reading

Lobby Day focused on the issues of medical student debt, lifting the cap on Medicare-funded graduate medical education (GME) slots, and Medicare/SGR reform. Learn more about these important issues by reviewing the materials below:

Medical student debt

Medicare-funded GME slots

Medicare/SGR reform

Effective lobbying techniques