What GGSM Provides for the Community and its Members

Through the efforts of a dedicated Leadership Structure, professional staff and a host of active committees, GGSM carries out its mission.  Current GGSM committees, their activities and respective charges represent the needs of its members and confirm the value of Society membership by unifying physicians on the issues most important to medicine. 

• Bylaws Committee - Interprets and recommends medical society policies, protocols, procedures.
• Communications Committee - Plans and implements internal and external communications and public relations’ activities
• Community Health Committee - Collaborates with a network of community organizations to address common issues, such as supporting smoke-free environments and access to medical resources for the community’s underserved.
• Continuing Medical Education Committee - Identifies, plans, and implements educational activities and events.
• Grievance Committee - Investigates and seeks to resolve grievances between members and patients.
• Legislative Committee - Coordinates local activities to help organize a key contact network for physician members to access legislators about important health-related legislation.  Promotes effective communication between the GGSM and legislators through a Candidates Forum.
• Membership Committee - Enhances membership recruitment/retention; orients and acts as liaison to new members.  Assesses physicians’ needs and develops programs to assist them:
• Finances and organizes annual welcoming socials to introduce new physicians to their colleagues and community
• Provides guidance in area of medical record retention
• Provides state and national organized medicine resources
• Provides members with professional development resources
• Mini-Internship Committee - Conducts two-day communication experience for lay community by allowing community leaders to shadow the primary care physician and the surgeon into their respective offices and surgeries.  The program fosters a positive relationship between medicine and the policy makers of the community.
• NCMS House of Delegates - Provides elected member delegates to represent the views of the local medical society within the areas most sensitive to the preservation and advancement of the members.
• Pictorial Directory Committee - Creates and publishes an inclusive physician pictorial directory with information that helps facilitate a convenient link to all physicians’ colleagues; members and non-members.
• Publications Committee - Publishes a newsletter that alerts members to activities, introduces new members, recognizes member accomplishments, highlights public health initiatives, acknowledges the senior physicians contributions to medicine and community, keeps members up to date on the happenings in medicine from all across the country.  Publishes a Medical Phone and Fax Book to assist the physician, office staff and hospitals with easy access to every physician in Greensboro.

The GGSM represents its members in a meaningful and organized manner providing information and guidance necessary to meet the challenges of medical service in our community. Our Society serves as a vehicle for the physician’s commitment and dedication to organized medicine. Physicians joining together as an organized unit can impact and determine the future of medicine.

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