Southern Medical Association

Mission: To improve the quality of patient care through multidisciplinary, interprofessional education. Vision: Physician-directed educational and leadership activities that include diverse teams of healthcare professionals interacting, collaborating, and learning for the purpose of improving quality of patient care. 

Foundational Principles: Our Relevance is found in Collaboration with entities and organizations with similar and complementary missions and memberships. Engagement with Academia including our medical schools and their academic medical centers and health systems. Embracing and Implementing a Youth strategy which acknowledges the importance and the special needs and concerns of young physicians and health care providers, physicians in training, medical students and even potentially undergraduate college students interested in a future health care career.