AAIM


Membership: Overview of AIM's Activities, Programs, and Initiatives

Overview of AIM's Activities, Programs, and Initiatives

AIM is the organization of business administrators in departments of internal medicine at medical schools and affiliated teaching hospitals. AIM sponsors many programs, projects, and activities. Through the support of AIM members, the association is able to undertake the following:

Member Resources
  • Online Resources: AIM offers several online resources to its members. The association’s website contains an online membership directory, meeting material, the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) Job Bank, an archive of publications including AAIM Connection and Academic Internal Medicine Insight, and a member listserver.

  • AIM Surveys: Each year, AIM generates data about departments of internal medicine through the AIM-Association of Professors of Medicine (APM) Statistical Survey. This survey analyzes important issues, such as payer mix, percentage of total practice plan revenue attributable to capitated contracts, and the composition of research funding. Biennially, the AIM Salary Survey examines the salary structure for staff in departments of internal medicine.

  • Public Policy Initiatives: AIM represents academic internal medicine before the executive and legislative branches of the US government. Working closely with other academic internal medicine organizations, AIM generates policy, tracks legislative and regulatory developments, and advocates for issues of importance to departments of internal medicine. Association activities focus primarily on agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Health Resources and Services Administration) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (research and medical care programs).

  • Executive Leadership: Through the AAIM Executive Leadership Program, members are given the opportunity to strengthen existing management skills and learn new ones. This professional development program offers departmental faculty and staff opportunities to learn about financial management (financial statement analysis, budgeting, and productivity assessment), strategy formulation and programming (strategic planning, marketing, and mission-based management), and organizational management (negotiation, mentoring, and career development).

Meetings
  • AIM Educational Conference: AIM will hold its 29th Annual Educational Conference as part of Academic Internal Medicine Week 2008, October 30-November 2, 2008, at the Walt Disney World Dolphin in Lake Buena Vista, FL.

  • ASIG Session at APA Meeting: As an Academic Special Interest Group (ASIG) of the Academic Practice Assembly (APA), AIM conducts a breakout session at the annual APA meeting.

Publications
  • AAIM Connection: Serving as the weekly voice of the alliance, AAIM Connection highlights current activities and initiatives. AAIM Connection updates AIM members on how events “inside the Beltway” affect academic internal medicine, and provides other policy, meetings, and member services updates as well as links members to new features on the alliance website.

  • Academic Internal Medicine Insight: A quarterly publication, this newsletter provides members an overview of pertinent issues related to faculty and staff in departments of internal medicine.

Affiliations
  • Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM): AIM continues to strengthen academic internal medicine by participating in AAIM. The members of this organization are the five academically focused internal medicine organizations: AIM, APM, the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, the Association of Subspecialty Professors, and the Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine. AAIM is dedicated to improving academic internal medicine and is actively developing numerous programs to assist faculty and staff in departments of internal medicine.

  • Academic Practice Assembly: The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), which includes APA, is a consortium of groups that represent the different constituents of American medicine. As one of APA’s academic special interest groups, AIM has the opportunity to interact with the administrators in other academic specialties including surgery, pediatrics, and family medicine.