Types of Membership

1. Membership will be open to any person willing to participate in group activity.

2. Voting Members of SAMS-NEW should be physician who are practicing or trained in US or Canada and they are also members of the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS).

3. Members of the group will be in 2 categories:

1. Voting members.
2. Affiliate members.

- Voting members can include residents and fellows in training within USA or Canada.

- Voting members should pay dues.

- Affiliate members will include all members who do not meet requirements of voting members - not SAMS members, or not North America trained, they choose to be affiliate members only.

-Affiliate members do not pay dues.

Dues

Students and physicians in-training:
-Pay only 50% of SAMS-NEW dues (Pay only 25 USD for 2010)
-SAMS National dues are waived
 
Attending Physician pay the full dues to SAMS National and SAMS-NEW (200 USD for 2010)

SAMS National Application: http://www.sams-usa.net/membership.pdf