Medical Society Of The State Of New York

Committee for physicians' health expense. The mission of the committee for physician health is to promote quality medical care by offering non disciplinary confidential assistance to physicians, residents, medical students and physician assistants suffering from substance use disorder and other psychiatric disorders. The committee monitors the treatment and compliance of program particpants and provides advocacy and support as well as outreach activities, including preventtion and education.

Communications/publications in the medical field. The communications division publishes the news of new york, a monthly digital publication that informs member physicians on issues affecting the health care delivery system in new york state. The mssny enews is a weekly digital publication that reports the most current news affecting member physicians and is distributed electronically to over 29,000 medical recipients. The communications division is also responsible for the mssny website, job board, social media, and some cme training.

Conventions and meetings. The divsion of meetings and conventions is responsible for all logistical arrangement for meetings for the medical society. This includes the annual house of delegates meeting of mssny, mssny council and board of trustees, meetings of the new york state delegation to the american medical association, as well as day to day committee meetings which take place within the headquarters building of mssny. State and other grant expense scientific and educational activitiesexpenses relating to continuing medical education of physicians and aspects of public health