North Carolina Chapter College Awards
The North Carolina Chapter Receives the 2026 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. The North Carolina Chapter received a 2026 John Tooker Evergreen Award for their innovative initiative.
Chief Resident Summit
This was innovative because it was a new way to engage our RFMs and PD/APDs as a collective group outside of our chapter meeting - building on professional development and advocacy education that had just been done once a year prior to that.
Over the past three years, the North Carolina Chapter has held a “Chief Resident Summit”, an annual one-day event for chief residents, residency program directors, and chapter leadership to connect and learn. Attendees have shared the programming offers an impactful mid-year touch point with program leadership, an opportunity to engage and educate chief residents early in their academic year, and a way to share the multitude of ACP resources to the benefit of the chiefs and the residents they lead. The chapter has seen a rebound of resident and fellow membership numbers and have been invited to replicate the program for senior residents and present at local grand rounds. The Summit has been well received and a wonderful way to connect with chief residents and program director leadership mid-year.
Special thanks to this program’s key contributors:
- Marion McCrary, MD, FACP, FAMWA, Governor, North Carolina Chapter
- Debra Bynum, MD, FACP, Chair, Membership Committee, Advisor for the
- Resident/Fellow Committee, North Carolina Chapter
Previous Evergreen Awards
- 2024 - Live Your Best Life
- 2023 - Well-being Communication and Collaboration for Community
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.
