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Revenue (2022) $493,147,829 [ 3] Website. ama-assn.org. The American Medical Association ( AMA) is an American professional association and lobbying group of physicians and medical students. Founded in 1847, it is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. [ 4][ 5] Membership was 271,660 in 2022. [ 6]
To protect participating physicians from license challenges for violating ethics codes, states commonly provide legal immunity and promise anonymity. [11] [12] The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled 4–3 that the Medical Board cannot discipline doctors who participate in executions, stating that the statutes providing for lethal injection are ...
The American Association of Physician Specialists (AAPS) is the smallest of three multi-specialty physician/surgeon certifying entities in the United States, providing board certification to both M.D. and D.O. physicians. The AAPS has grouped its certification activities within a single subdivision called the American Board of Physician ...
The Declaration of Geneva was adopted by the General Assembly of the World Medical Association at Geneva in 1948, amended in 1968, 1983, 1994, editorially revised in 2005 and 2006 and amended in 2017. It is a declaration of a physician 's dedication to the humanitarian goals of medicine, a declaration that was especially important in view of ...
Hippocratic Oath. The Hippocratic Oath is an oath of ethics historically taken by physicians. It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts. In its original form, it requires a new physician to swear, by a number of healing gods, to uphold specific ethical standards. The oath is the earliest expression of medical ethics in the ...
Website. www .elections .il .gov. The State Board of Elections ( SBE) is an independent agency of the U.S. state of Illinois. [ 1] The SBE, as an acronym, refers both to the eight-member bipartisan board of directors and to the agency that it oversees. The members of the SBE, who are appointed by the Governor of Illinois, in turn appoint an ...
Illinois State Board of Education. Coordinates: 39°48′8.6″N 89°39′15.8″W. The Illinois State Board of Education ( ISBE) administers public education in the state of Illinois. The State Board consists of nine members who are appointed by the Governor with the consent of the Senate. Board members serve four-year terms, with State Board ...
The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association (ANA), is a certification body for nursing board certification and the largest certification body for advanced practice registered nurses in the United States, [ 1] as of 2011 certifying over 75,000 APRNs, including nurse practitioners and clinical ...