Bylaws

Membership

The Council on Medical Education shall consist of the following:

Eleven active members of the AMA, at least one of whom shall be a private practitioner of medicine who is not a salaried faculty member of a medical school, and 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.

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.

Term of Office

Voting members other tThan the resident physician and medical student members: Voting members of the Council on Medical Education, other than the resident physician and medical student members, shall be elected by the House of Delegates for terms of four years.

Resident physician member: The resident physician member of the Council on Medical Education shall be elected by the House of Delegates for a term of 3 years provided that if the resident physician 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 physician member on the Council shall thereupon terminate and the position shall be declared vacant except as provided in AMA Bylaws, Section 6.00.

Medical student member: The medical student member of the Council on Medical Education shall serve for a term of 1 year provided that if the medical student member ceases to be enrolled in a Liaison Committee on Medical Education or American Osteopathic Association accredited program 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.

Term and tenure: Members of the Council on Medical Education elected before 1993 shall serve for no more than nine years. (The preceding sentence will sunset when no longer applicable.) Members elected in 1993 or thereafter shall 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.

Vacancies

Voting members other than the resident physician and medical student member: Any vacancy among the members of the Council other than the resident physician and medical student shall be filled at the next Annual Meeting of the House of Delegates. The new member shall be elected by the House of Delegates for [the remainder of the unexpired] a four-year term.

Resident physician 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 at which said resident physician was elected except as provided in AMA Bylaws, Section 6.00.