As physician involvement in health policy grows, there will be an increasing need for future leaders in orthopedics. Interested orthopedic residents may be unaware of opportunities for leadership involvement in professional and subspecialty organizations. This article investigates whether national and subspecialty organizations offer membership to residents, allow residents to participate in co...

BACKGROUND The resource-based view of the firm suggests that organizations must obtain valuable resources from external sources to obtain lasting benefits. Professional associations today exist in every industry and offer resources to assist their affiliates' organizations and individual members. Today, there are more than 23,000 national and 64,000 state, local, and regional professional assoc...

Increased uncertainty in the economic and business environments have placed IS function and IS leadership in a quandary today. In this paper, we empirically examine the remuneration of CIOs, and examine their association with firm performance, size and industry membership. Based on compensation data of 213 CIOs in 2002, we test several hypotheses linking the total, annual cash, and long term co...

INTRODUCTION BMA Cymru Wales is pleased to provide a re Cancer screening in women. The British Medical Association represents doctors from all branches of medicine all over the UK total membership of almost 150,000 including more than 3,000 members overseas and over 19,000 medical student members. The BMA is the largest voluntary professional association of doctors in the UK, wh home and abroad...

s a nursing advocate, a nursing educator, and advisor for the NSNA Leadership University at Valencia Community College's Student Nurses Association, I was asked to share my views on the importance and purpose of the NSNA Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct. Many professional organizations such as the American Nurses Association, the American Medical Association, and the American Bar Association,...

OBJECTIVE To discover a governance structure and a business model for the European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) which will be economically sustainable in the medium term, arresting a long-term gradual decline in membership numbers and implementing new revenue streams to sustain association activity. METHODOLOGY Reviewed survival strategies of other professional ass...