2007 Specialty Delegate Allocations

A new formula for proportional representation to the AMA-YPS Assembly was approved by the AMA House of Delegates (HOD) at the 2007 Interim Meeting. Beginning in 2008, national medical specialty societies who have been granted representation in the HOD will be entitled to send at least two voting delegates to AMA-YPS Assembly meetings. There will no longer be alternate delegates.

Effective Jan. 1, 2008, AMA bylaws state that the apportionment for each state and specialty society, or federal service, will be two representatives (and no alternate representatives) for each 1,000 members of the Young Physicians Section who are members of the society as recorded by the AMA on Dec. 31 of each year.

Each specialty society listed below is entitled to at least two delegates to the AMA-YPS. If you, a young physician under 40 years of age or within the first eight (8) years of professional practice after residency and fellowship training, have an interest in serving as a delegate to the AMA-YPS, contact your specialty society to see if this is feasible. If you need to know how to contact your society, e-mail the AMA-YPS or view our list of staff liaisons for national medical specialty societies. 

• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery
• American Academy of Dermatology
• American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
• American Academy of Family Physicians
• American Academy of Neurology
• American Academy of Ophthalmology
• American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy
• American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists
• American Association of Neurological Surgeons
• American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology
• American College of Emergency Physicians
• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
• American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• American College of Physicians
• American College of Preventive Medicine
• American College of Radiology
• American College of Surgeons
• American Gastroenterological Association
• American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society
• American Psychiatric Association
• American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Inc.
• American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, Inc.
• American Society for Surgery of the Hand
• American Society of Addiction Medicine
• American Society of Anesthesiologists, Inc.
• American Society of Bariatric Physicians
• American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons
• American Society of Neuroimaging
• American Society of Nuclear Medicine
• American Society of Plastic Surgeons
• American Urological Association
• Association of Military Surgeons of the United States
• College of American Pathologists
• Congress of Neurological Surgeons
• Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
• The Endocrine Society

If your society is not listed, but you are interested in AMA-YPS participation, contact the Department of Young Physician Services, or view our criteria for representation and complete a petition. (Word, 183KB)