The AMA Organized Medical Staff Section (OMSS) held its 32st Annual Assembly Meeting June 4-6 in Chicago with more than 150 attendees. The section hosted five AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ education programs during the meeting:
- How physicians are leading for quality and safety
- Challenges when integrating employed and independent physicians
- How to develop a robust medical staff wellness program
- Ways that AMA advocacy efforts are giving physicians a voice in Washington
- An update on an AMA focus area: Enhancing professional satisfaction and practice sustainability
AMA President Robert M. Wah, MD, addressed the section Friday afternoon, where he thanked AMA-OMSS leadership for their role in crafting the AMA and American Hospital Association’s jointly developed “Principles of Integrated Leadership for Hospitals and Health Systems.”
The AMA-OMSS Assembly considered 19 items of business, prompting robust discussion on a range of issues, including:
- The role of community physicians in medical staff governance
- Credentialing and privileging at critical access hospitals
- Physician-led team-based care
The Section sent seven resolutions to the AMA House of Delegates for consideration at the 2015 Annual Meeting and issued 22 instructions to its delegate as to the positions the section should take on various items of interest to medical staff leaders and members.
