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advocacy, research, and collaborations with public and private organizations, the organization is dedicated to enhancing the quality of health among minorities and underprivileged people. Throughout its history, the NMA has primarily focused on health issues related to African Americans and medically underserved populations. However, its principles, goals, initiatives, and philosophy encompass all ethnic groups
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the AMA's proposals. Indeed, during the height of the health insurance debates from 1946 to 1950, the AMA often sent guest speakers to the NMA's conferences. Such AMA officials promised the NMA membership in their ranks as well as the right to practice medicine. Yet the NMA's leadership largely resisted the AMA's efforts. NMA presidents like Drs.
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During this time period, the NMA leadership repeatedly stated their support for a national health insurance scheme through the Journal of the National Medical Association as well as newspapers like the Chicago Defender. At the same time, rank-and-file members, desirous to practice medicine, supported
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The NMA, dedicated to promoting the interests of those of "African Descent", contributed to the national health insurance dialogue from 1900 to 1950. Despite its rather marginal size, starting in the mid-1910s, the NMA advocated compulsory health insurance. Primarily, the association sought any means
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era in the southern part of the United States, state laws and social customs mandated the racial segregation of medical societies, medical facilities, and medical education. The NMA was organized by twelve black doctors attending the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia. The
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Conceived in no spirit of racial exclusiveness, fostering no ethnic antagonism, but born of the exigencies of the American environment, the National Medical Association has for its object the banding together for mutual cooperation and helpfulness, the men and women of African descent who are legally
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national professional and scientific organization, the NMA represents the interests of over 30,000 African American physicians and their patients, with nearly 112 affiliated societies throughout the nation and U.S. territories. Through its membership, professional growth, community health education,
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By the early 1950s, the NMA still did not possess a consensual platform concerning health insurance. Internally torn about the best methods to promote their own professional ambitions as well as the interests of African American patients, the health insurance topic remained a divisive one. Still,
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Nearly every year since its founding in 1895, the NMA has held the Annual Convention & Scientific Assembly, which is regarded as the nation's foremost forum on medical science and African American health. The NMA is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to
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Through the presentation of CME programs at the national and regional conventions, as well as at state and local society meetings, NMA members are able to meet Category 1 requirements for the Physician's Achievement Award of the NMA and the Physician's Recognition Award of the American Medical
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opposed the AMA's proposals on the grounds that the AMA had previously excluded African American patients from their care as well as African American physicians from their ranks. Furthermore, the AMA's support of
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that provided medical care for African Americans. As an association, however, it also sought to promote the interests of the African American physicians themselves.
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members of the NMA offered resistance to the AMA's promotion of voluntary health insurance when few medical practitioners dared to.
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In the late 1950s, the NMA took a more active interest in civil rights under the leadership of its president,
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and honorably engaged in the practice of the cognate professions of medicine, surgery, pharmacy and dentistry.
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and immunizations. Further, the work of the NMA and its members has received national exposure on
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which publicized and challenged continuing hospital segregation in both the North and South.
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television stations, as well as numerous radio and major print media each year.
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murder case and led the largest civil rights organization in the state, the
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Association (AMA). The NMA offers CME programs in 23 specialties—from
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The NMA has conducted national consumer awareness programs in
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The official journal of the National Medical Association,
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Journal of the National Medical Association

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Robert F. Boyd
Daniel Hale Williams
American Medical Association
red scare
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E. L. Robinson
C. Austin Whitter
J. G. Gathings
Abraham Flexner
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Regional Council of Negro Leadership
Imhotep National Conference on Hospital Integration

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