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II. Continuing Medical Education/CE ActivitiesThe Southern Medical Association has been serving physicians’ needs sinceits inception as a physician member association in 1906. SMA is committedto enhancing life-long learning for physicians. The SMA Continuing MedicalEducation (CME) unit is accredited by the Accreditation Council for ContinuingMedical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education forphysicians. At its most recent re-accreditation review, the ACCME awarded SMAthe rating of “accreditation with commendation” – the highest rating availableto accredited providers. As an accredited provider, SMA’s accredited activitiesallow physicians to participate and obtain AMA Physicians’ RecognitionAward (PRA) Category 1 Credits TM , a requirement of most state’s licensureprocedures. In 2006, SMA was approved as a provider of continuing educationin nursing by the Alabama State Nurses Association, an accredited approver bythe American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.This additional accredited as expanded the reach of SMA’s programming.CME activities are developed based on needs assessment and are evaluatedto determine quality, educational value, and performance improvement withthe goal of improved patient health outcomes. Activities are varied in design,format, and distribution methods to meet the interests and needs of physiciansand other healthcare professionals. Current formats include the SouthernMedical Journal (monthly CME articles), live conferences (i.e. annual scientificassemblies, regional conferences, and resident education), distance learning(resident education and physician business administration certificate course)and Internet education (MedEd On-Demand library). MedEd On-Demand offersa large collection of lectures captured from live conferences and repackagedwith slides and audio for Internet education. Internet content includes clinicaland practice management topics approved for physician and nursing credits.III. PublicationsThe Southern Medical Journal…Brief HistoryDuring the first years of its history, the Association did not actually own a journal.Various publications were named “official organ of publication” from time to time.At the annual meeting held in Atlanta, Ga., November 10-12, 1908,arrangements were made for the Medical Report of Shreveport, ShreveportLa., to serve as the official organ of publication, with the name to be changedto Journal of the Southern Medical Association, effective January 1909(Vol. 2, No. 1). Oscar Dowling, M.D., Shreveport, La., Secretary-Treasurerof the Southern Medical Association, was Editor. It was discontinuedas Journal of the Southern Medical Association as of December 1909.The Gulf States Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Mobile, Ala., formerlythe Mobile Medical and Surgical Journal, became the Association’sofficial organ of publication in January 1910 (Vol. 16, No. 1). Owners SealeHarris, M.D., and H. A. Moody, M.D., both of Mobile, AL., served as Editors.The Southern Medical Journal,a publication privately owned by agroup of Nashville, TN, physiciansbegan in Nashville, TN, in July 1908(Vol. 1, No. 1). It was purchased inOctober or November 1910 by SealeHarris, M.D., as principal owner,with some other physicians havingminor financial interest. Thus, theowners of the Gulf States Journalof Medicine and Surgery mergedthis publication (Vol.17, No.5) withtheir newly acquired publication, theSouthern Medical Journal with theDecember 1910 issue (Vol. 3, No. 11).Also, beginning with the December1910 issue, the new Southern MedicalJournal carried the additionaldesignation of Journal of the SouthernMedical Association. Seale Harris,M.D., served as Editor until November1921, and H. A. Moody, M.D., servedas Managing Editor until April 1916.From December 1910 to May1916, J. A. Witherspoon, M.D., W.D. Haggard, M.D., William Litterer,M.D., W. A. Bryan, M.D., and M.M. Cullon, M.D., all of Nashville,Tenn., and Oscar Dowling,M.D., were Associate Editors.From June 1916 to October1917, M. Y. Dabney, M.D., becameManaging Editor and James R. Garber,M.D., Birmingham, Ala., becameAssociate Editor. From December1917 to December 1919, Dr. Dabneyserved as Acting Editor while Dr.Harris was on active military duty.From January 1920 to November1921, both Dr. Dabney and Dr. Garberwere designated Associate Editors.In November 1921 the SouthernMedical Association, with amembership of 6,328, purchasedthe Southern Medical Journalfrom Dr. Harris and his co-ownersand Dr. Dabney was elected Editor.Dr. Harris resigned as Editor at thatmeeting. Dr. Dabney served as Editorfrom December 1921 to December1954 and his wife, Eugenia B.Dabney, served as Assistant Editor,1930-1935, and Associate Editorfrom 1935 until December 1954.Curtice Rosser, M.D., Dallas,Tex., and Tinsley R. Harrison, M.D.,Birmingham, Ala., were AssociateEditors from January 1951 toDecember 1954. Curtice J. Lund,M.D., New Orleans, La., served asan Associate Editor from January1951 to December 1952. HowardL. Holley, M.D., Birmingham, Ala.,served as an Associate Editor fromJanuary 1954 to December 1954.Others who have served asAssistant Editor are Harris D. Riley Jr.,M.D. (1967-1970), Sam E. StephensonJr., M.D. (1968-1990), Addison B.Scoville, Jr., M.D. (1976-1989), and J.Leonard Goldner, M.D. (1971-1974).R. H. Kampmeier, M.D., Nashville,Tenn., became Editor and V. O. Foster,Birmingham, Ala., Managing Editor,effective December 1, 1954. RobertF. Butts, Birmingham, Ala., becameManaging Editor, December 1, 1960.Harris D. Riley, Jr., M.D., OklahomaCity, Okla., became Associate Editorof the Journal in January 1971,and assumed the role of Editor inJanuary 1973, upon Dr. Kampmeier’sretirement. Dr. Kampmeier wasretained as Advisory Editor. InSeptember 1977, John B. Thomison,M.D., of Nashville, Tenn., wasappointed Editor succeeding Dr. Riley.Beginning in 1980 William J.Ranieri became Managing Editor ofthe Journal. In July 1992, the Councilvoted to name Dr. Thomison EditorEmeritus upon his retirement at theend of that year. In January 1993 J.Graham Smith, Jr., M.D., becameEditor. In 2000, James H. Leverettbecame Managing Editor, and RonaldC. Hamdy, M.D., was appointedEditor. In 2002, Ed J. Waldron becameManaging Editor, and he appointedCathy Galloway to serve in that capacity.12 www.sma.org | 800.423.4992SMA : Southern Medical Association 13