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Section News

Section News is a monthly e-newsletter featuring updates from AMA member sections. 

When a section has news, events or educational opportunities they want to share with members, they use AMA Section News. It's a quick, convenient way to stay current regarding the news of your and your colleague's section(s). Submission guidelines are noted below.

Read the latest issue

Current Issue - May 2026

In this issue:

General news

  • Introducing the Quality Stewardship Committee
  • AMA Edmonton office address update
  • We need you! AMA Board and committee opportunities – apply by May 29
  • Promote your event through the AMA
  • Someone helped you through a tough day. Tell them.

News and updates from

  • Section of Addiction Medicine
  • Section of Chronic Pain
  • Section of Generalists in Mental Health
  • Section of Family Medicine
  • Section of Neurology
  • Section of Occupational Medicine
  • Section of Orthopedics
  • Section of Palliative Medicine
  • Section of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
  • Section of Respiratory Medicine
  • Section of Rural Medicine
  • Section of Sport and Exercise Medicine
  • Section of Vascular Surgery

Submit an article to AMA Section News

All AMA sections (via their section presidents or representatives) may make submissions to AMA Section News by emailing AMA Section Services.

Examples of typical submission topics include:

  • Practice information (new policies, procedures)
  • Governance announcements, developments
  • Reports on past meetings, conferences and other events or announcements of upcoming meetings, conferences and events

2026 Section News Publication Deadlines

Per standard format for e-newsletters, articles should be a maximum of 200 words in length

To enable the reader to find out more about subjects, e-newsletter articles commonly include hyperlinks to website pages or other newsletters, articles, contact emails, etc.

Articles may be edited (by the AMA Section News editor) for compliance with the AMA writing style guide and other elements/factors that contribute to engaging electronic content.

Common web writing standards include:

  • Brief, engaging copy.
  • Avoid over-use of acronyms, colloquialisms and jargon
  • Begin your article by clearly and concisely identifying the information that is most relevant and of the greatest benefit to your reader. Follow with more details.
  • The use of sub-heads (sub-titles), bulleted lists and bolded words are common techniques in e-newsletters, acting as "alerts" to the reader who may be quickly scanning the e-newsletter.

Submissions may include related graphic images. Please provide an .eps file, if available; .jpeg and .png files should be at least 300 x 300 pixels, to allow for cropping.

AMA Section Services emails section presidents (or their representatives) once a month, to remind them of the submission deadline for the upcoming edition of AMA Section News.

Email your section's submission to: AMA Section Services