Alabama Chapter College Awards
2025 Chapter Excellence Award-Gold Level Winner
(September 2025) We are pleased to announce that our chapter is in receipt of the Gold Level of the 2025 Chapter Excellence Award! The award recognizes truly extraordinary chapters that surpass excellence in chapter management. We are in the company of 68 other outstanding chapters. In order to achieve the Gold Level of the Chapter Excellence Award, chapters must meet 22 Bronze criteria, 12 Silver criteria and 25 Gold level activities. Criteria include such activities as having a legislative action plan or agenda, holding a volunteerism/community service activity, holding multiple stand-alone meetings, having revenue sources outside of dues and meeting registration fees, implementing a strategic plan, implementing a formal recruitment and retention plan and measuring outcomes, conducting various activities for Medical Students, Residents and Early Career Physicians. We would like to extend a special thanks to those chapter members who assisted us in all of these endeavors! For their hard work and dedication, we received this award.
Alabama Chapter Receives the 2024 John Tooker Evergreen Award
The John Tooker Evergreen Awards Program provides recognition and visibility to chapters that have successfully implemented programs to increase membership, improve communication, encourage member involvement, enhance diversity, foster careers in internal medicine or improve chapter management. Our Chapter received the 2024 John Tooker Evergreen Award for the initiative, Laureate Society Fellowship Program.
Laureate Society Fellowship Program
The Alabama Chapter Laureate Society Fellowship is a two-year, fully funded program for residents and ACP members. Nominations are solicited from all internal medicine residency program directors in Alabama for outstanding PGY-1 or PGY-2 candidates who possess unusual leadership qualities and interest in the activities of organized medicine at the local, state, and national levels. The purpose of the Chapter Laureate Society Fellowship Award is to promote an early and deep integration of promising resident physicians into ACP, introduce them to ACP chapter leaders, ACP national leaders, policymakers, mentors, and to encourage and promote their paths to advocacy and leadership at the state and national levels in the College. Two individuals were invited to participate in the first year of programming.