Medicine Works Better When Physicians Have the Power to Shape It
Medicine is changing. Decisions made beyond the exam room increasingly affect how physicians practice, care for patients, and build a career in medicine.
Your experience brings an essential perspective to those decisions.
Through the Massachusetts Medical Society. Nearly 22,000 physicians and medical students turn individual experience into collective influence, knowledge, leadership, and action - strengthening the profession and improving care across Massachusetts.
Physician-led Since 1781
For more than two centuries, Massachusetts physicians have come together to shape medicine.
Today, physicians still lead MMS — setting its policies and priorities through elected leadership, committees, sections, and the House of Delegates.
Knowledge that Shapes Medicine Worldwide
Physician influence extends beyond policy.
Through NEJM Group, a division of the Massachusetts Medical Society, trusted medical knowledge reaches clinicians and health care leaders worldwide — helping inform decisions, advance medical understanding, and improve patient care.
What Physicians Make Possible Together
Shape health policy
The MMS brings physician and patient perspectives to decisions affecting medical practice, public health, and access to care, and the conditions in which physicians practice.
Stay ahead of change
Massachusetts physicians successfully navigate emerging technology, evolving regulations, and new ways of delivering care by accessing trusted knowledge and professional and medical education.
Strengthen your career and practice
Managing the professional, legal, financial, and operational realities of medicine is easier with the practical expertise, mentorship, and connections designed specifically for state-based physicians.
Lead the profession
Setting priorities and influencing the future of medicine through physician-led governance.
Turn Your Experience into Action
Shape the agenda. Participate in committees and sections to help establish advocacy priorities, while gaining invaluable leadership skills.
Make your voice heard. Testify at legislative hearings on issues affecting physicians and patients or contact policymakers through grassroots calls to action. When physicians speak, politicians listen.
Medicine Needs Your Perspective
The decisions shaping medicine shouldn’t happen without the physicians who practice it. Bring your experience, your expertise, and your voice to a community of physicians working to shape what comes next — for patients, the profession, and medicine across
Massachusetts.
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