2023 Chapter Excellence Award – Gold Winner
We are pleased to announce that our chapter is in receipt of the Gold Level of the 2023 Chapter Excellence Award! The award recognizes truly extraordinary chapters that surpass excellence in chapter management. We are in the company of 54 other outstanding chapters. In order to achieve the Gold Level of the Chapter Excellence Award, chapters must meet nineteen Bronze criteria, seventeen Silver criteria and multiple Gold level activities. Criteria include such activities as having a legislative action plan or agenda, holding a volunteerism/community service activity, holding multiple stand-alone meetings, having revenue sources outside of dues and meeting registration fees, implementing a strategic plan, implementing a formal recruitment and retention plan and measuring outcomes, conducting various activities for Medical Students, Residents and Early Career Physicians.
We would like to extend a special thanks to those chapter members who assisted us in all of these endeavors! For their hard work and dedication, we received this award.
Wisconsin Chapter Receives the 2024 John Tooker Evergreen Award
The John Tooker Evergreen Awards Program provides recognition and visibility to chapters that have successfully implemented programs to increase membership, improve communication, encourage member involvement, enhance diversity, foster careers in internal medicine or improve chapter management. Our Chapter received the 2024 John Tooker Evergreen Award for the initiative, New Multigenerational Scientific Program Session – Bridging the Gap for Student and Senior Chapter Members Â
New Multigenerational Scientific Program Session – Bridging the Gap for Student and Senior Chapter Members Â
The Bridging the Gap Program was launched at Wisconsin’s September 2023 Chapter Scientific Meeting to create an opportunity that would engage senior chapter members and medical students in mentorship. Finding ways to re-engage our senior members, many of whom have retired, but continue to pay dues, has been a priority for our Chapter. Bridging the Gap also resulted in the creation of a medical student poster session at Wisconsin’s annual meeting. In the past, students listened to the scientific program sessions and often displayed a poster but did not have programming that targeted them. Some students felt they did not get to interact with senior physicians because the judges were overwhelmed with many leaving immediately after the session. The chapter increased non-student, non-resident members attending by 10%+. We had 86 members in attendance in 2023 and 64 in 2022.
Previous Evergreen Awards:
- 1993 - Medical Student Summer Program
- 1999 - Publication of Associates Abstracts; Reach out for Residents and Medical Students
- 2000 - A Course in Professionalism for Residents in Training
- 2008 - Women’s Initiative
- 2009 - A New Way of Running our Business
- 2013 - 25th Anniversary Evergreen All-Star Award
- 2016 - High Value Care Cases Module at Annual Scientific Meeting
- 2023 - Narrative Medicine: Celebrating Internal Medicine Physicians