Membership Benefits

SGIM offers invaluable networking opportunities that open doors to your next career move or project.

Annual Meeting—The Annual Meeting brings together over 2,500 general internal medicine health professionals and healthcare leaders, enabling you to build relationships and establish connections with a diverse network of peers.

Regional Meetings—Regional meetings provide opportunities at the local level to network, learn, showcase and share research, and develop leadership skills.

Committees, Commissions, and Work Groups—Allow members to come together around specific topics, working to advance the field and support SGIM’s mission.

GIM Connect—GIM Connect is SGIM’s members-only online community, networking, and collaboration platform. Available at any time from any device, GIM Connect connects you with thousands of colleagues through interest groups, discussions, events, and more.

Member Directory—Our member directory enables you to find and connect with peers worldwide. Search by location, faculty, or professional status or by interests or career goals that align with your own.

Our member-focused leadership programs offer support and training for leaders and faculty and opportunities for learning, reinvention, and rejuvenation as you evolve throughout your career. 

Career-Development Programs 

Choose from year-long programs in leadership, teaching skills, and health policy, all taught by established mentors and faculty in your field.

• LEAD—Tailored for junior/mid-career faculty focusing on leadership skills. 
• TEACH—A program centered on teaching skills for junior clinician educators. 
• LEAHP—A comprehensive program on federal health policy knowledge and advocacy. 
• MedEd Scholarship—Crafted for clinician-educators to enhance scholarship skills.

Mentoring—Our members have varied career goals, and we’re here to support them all. Structured mentoring can play a powerful role in supporting you at any phase of your journey.

ACLGIM—The Association of Chief and Leaders of General Internal Medicine (ACLGIM) provides a venue for leadership development and networking with leaders and emerging leaders in scholarship, research, education, patient care, administration, policy, and innovation.

Career Center—SGIM’s Career Center provides tools and resources to help you grow in your career.

Volunteer opportunities—It doesn’t matter where you are in your career--you can make a difference within the Society and help shape the future of our discipline through volunteering. 

SGIM’s educational programs help you grow your skills with a like-minded community of experts and colleagues. Our publications promote dialogue and interaction between members and the scientific community.

Meetings—SGIM’s National Meeting is an annual culmination of the best research, medical education, and clinical practice skills in academic general internal medicine. CME credit/MOC points are available for appropriate sessions.

Regional Meetings—Regional meetings are held throughout the year at the local level and offer members a variety of ways to learn and share research. 

GIMLearn—GIMLearn provides a full catalog of on-demand and live courses that you can access year-round from anywhere with an internet connection. Many courses include CME and MOC credits.

Publications—SGIM publishes three core publications, each with high-quality content on timely topics relevant to general internal medicine and the health care system at large.

• JGIM—The Journal of General Internal Medicine is the official journal of the Society. Its articles focus on topics such as clinical medicine, epidemiology, prevention, health care delivery, curriculum development, and numerous other non-traditional themes, in addition to classic clinical research on problems in internal medicine.
• SGIM Forum—The Forum offers articles, essays, thought pieces, and editorials that reflect on healthcare trends, report on Society activities, and explore critical issues for general internists in U.S. healthcare and globally.
• The ACLGIM Leadership Forum—The Leadership Forum addresses issues of leadership in medicine, containing regular "Perspectives in Leadership" essays from faculty members, students, staff, and patients on what they look for in leaders and other leadership-focused content.

SGIM advocacy promotes and supports policies that improve patient care, strengthen education and training, and promote researchers and their research in general internal medicine.

Whether it’s joining one of SGIM’s advocacy subcommittees or just learning about the Congressional process and how to become an effective advocate, SGIM membership offers education, guidance, and resources to help you use your voice to create a legacy of positive change in support of SGIM’s legislative priorities.

Together, our voices are shaping the future of healthcare.