Bylaws

B-6.30 Council on Medical Service

B-6.301 Functions. The functions of the Council on Medical Service are:

B-6.3011 To study and evaluate the social and economic aspects of medical care; and, on behalf of the public and the profession, to suggest means for the timely development of services in a changing socioeconomic environment;

B-6.3012 To investigate social and economic factors influencing the practice of medicine;

B-6.3013 To confer with state associations, component societies and national medical specialty societies regarding changing conditions and anticipated proposals that would affect medical care;

B-6.3014 To assist medical service committees established by state associations, component societies of the American Medical Association, and the National Medical Specialty Societies.

B-6.302 Membership. The Council on Medical Service shall consist of the following:

B-6.3021 Eleven active members of the AMA, one of whom shall be a resident physician. These members of the Council shall be elected by the House of Delegates. The Board of Trustees shall nominate two or more eligible members for each vacancy on the Council, and further nominations may be made from the floor of the House.

B-6.3022 In addition, a medical student member of the AMA appointed by the Governing Council of the AMA Medical Student Section with the concurrence of the Board of Trustees shall also serve on the Council. The medical student member shall have all of the rights of any other member of the Council to participate fully in meetings of the Council, including the right to make motions and to vote on policy issues, elections, appointments, or nominations conducted by the Council.

B-6.303 Term

B-6.3031 Voting Members other than the Resident Member. Members of the Council on Medical Service, other than the Resident member, shall be elected by the House of Delegates for terms of four years.

B-6.3032 Resident Member. The resident member of the Council on Medical Service shall be elected by the House of Delegates for a term of three years provided that if the resident member ceases to be in an approved training program at any time prior to the expiration of the term for which he or she was elected, the service of such Resident member on the Council shall thereupon terminate and the position shall be declared vacant.

B-6.3033 Medical Student Member. The medical student member of the Council on Medical Service shall serve for a term of one year provided that if the medical student member ceases to be enrolled in an approved medical school or in a college of osteopathic medicine approved by an appropriate accrediting agency at any time prior to the expiration of the term for which elected, the service of such medical student member on the Council shall thereupon terminate, and the position shall be declared vacant.

B-6.304 Term and Tenure. Members of the Council on Medical Service shall serve for no more than nine years. (The preceding sentence will sunset when no longer applicable.) Members elected in 1993 or thereafter may serve for no more than eight years. A member elected to serve an unexpired term prior to 1997 shall not be regarded as having served a term while completing the unexpired term and years of service in filling such terms shall not be counted in determining maximum tenure. (The preceding sentence will sunset when no longer applicable.) The limitation on tenure shall take priority over a term length for which the member was elected.

B-6.305 Vacancies

B-6.3051 Members other than the Resident Member and Student Member. Any vacancy among the voting members of the Council other than the Resident member shall be filled at the next meeting of the House of Delegates. The new member shall be elected by the House of Delegates for the remainder of the unexpired term.

B-6.3052 Resident Member. If the Resident Physician member of the Council is unable, for any reason, to complete the term for which he or she was elected, the remainder of the term shall be deemed to have expired, The successor shall be elected by the House of Delegates at its next meeting for a term to expire at the conclusion of the third Annual Meeting of the House of Delegates following the meeting at which said Resident was elected.

(Source: Constitution and Bylaws of the American Medical Association, December 1997 revision)