What do you get for your $225?

1. AmSECT Today, a monthly magazine, published eleven times a year

2. The Journal of Extra-Corporeal Technology, published four times a year

3. A robust continuing education program offering important weekend meetings throughout the nation on a continuous basis to assist you in staying current in the field and earning your recertification points

4. A Business Practices Committee that maintains a program to assist you with information and ideas helpful to managing a perfusion business or hospital perfusion operation

5. Representing you to the American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion to facilitate monitoring of ABCP activities and the communication of AmSECT's position on important issues

6. Representing you to the Accreditation Committee-Perfusion Education to ensure that high standards of perfusion training program accreditation are established and maintained

7. Making appropriate public recognition of the professional and service achievements of the members of your profession

8. Representing you to the Autotransfusion/AABB organization

9. Making sure that your Society's bylaws that affect the governance, management, administration, and member benefits are kept current and in good order

10. Representing you to the CAAHEP organization (Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs) regarding allied health accreditation activities (which includes perfusion)

11. Convening an annual international convention that is the world's largest gathering of perfusionists, exhibits, presenters, and speakers on contemporary perfusion subjects and issues important to you

12. Representing you to the ELSO organization (Extracorporeal Life Support Organization)

13. Ensuring that the Society's code of ethical conduct that protects you and your patients is complied with by the members of the profession

14. Representing you to state and federal legislative and regulatory bodies, in protecting your right to provide proper patient care

15. Providing you with free access to a broad array of information via the Society's Internet web site (Perfusion Channels)

16. Representing you to the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations to ensure that perfusion is evaluated appropriately

17. Providing you with a scientific journal whose articles have been critically reviewed by a committee of your peers

18. Providing you and the members of the profession with agreed-upon formulations of generally accepted perfusion practice guidelines

19. Representing you to a medical advisory board comprised of liaisons from the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons, the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesia, and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons

20. Providing funding support for promising perfusion research projects that might ultimately prove to be beneficial to you and your colleagues

21. Providing a full-time professional National Office staff available each day to respond to your requests and to provide efficient administrative services for your benefit

22. Providing the services of a corporate attorney to supply expert counsel on legal issues for the guidance and protection of your Society

23. Providing the services of a professional certified parliamentarian to ensure that all official meetings are conducted properly and that our bylaws are properly interpreted and maintained

24. Providing your region, and all other AmSECT regions, with administrative and communications support

25. Protecting the monies and other assets of your Society by ensuring that accounting is proper and that an annual audit of the books is conducted

26. Protecting the investments of your Society by having the performance of the investment program evaluated every two years

27. Supporting your voice in AmSECT's governance by paying the travel expenses of your regional representatives to the AmSECT Board of Directors

28. Supporting all the committees that serve you by providing them with financial and technical aid

29. Subsidizing the financial cost of the benefits you receive by soliciting funding support from industry

30. Providing scholarships and other financial aid to perfusion students

31. Providing you with free job placement assistance

32. Providing financial support for the travel expenses of your elected officers as they conduct periodic management meetings between the official Board of Directors meetings

33. Providing an orderly and controlled election procedure to ensure that when you and your colleagues are candidates for office, the process will be efficient and fair

34. Providing you with special reports to inform you about important topics of a time critical nature

35. Representing you through liaison with other associations having common interests with perfusion

36. Supporting the creation and operation of an AmSECT Pediatric Perfusion national chapter whose purpose is to further the exchange of information for you and your colleagues who have pediatric perfusion responsibilities

37. Providing you free perfusion monographs and scientific publications to support your continuing education

38. Providing you with self-study perfusion materials at a nominal cost

39. Representing you to the Perfusion Program Directors' Council in matters pertaining to the training of students

40. Keeping your dues from rising to $500 for the benefits you receive, by raising outside revenues from such additional sources as advertising, exhibit space sales, perfusionist recruitment, mailing list rentals, and private donations

41. Providing a quick response to urgent calls you place to the National Office regarding critical clinical emergency matters

42. Responding to your inquiries regarding the prevailing compensation levels for perfusionists

43. Facilitating the continuation of your profession by providing information and personal consultation with prospective entrants to perfusion

44. Supporting you and your elected representatives in public relations by providing a professionally-produced video that explains the profession to the lay public

45. Providing the perfusionists in your state with the leadership and seed money necessary to enable you to form a state perfusion society and deal with state-level perfusion-related political issues

46. Conducting biennial strategic planning on your behalf to ensure the long-term viability of AmSECT's services, finances, and the profession

47. Providing information to the media and the general public to enable them to understand better what you do and why it is so important

48. Maintaining open lines of communication to AmSECT's corporate sponsors and exhibitors regarding various issues of mutual importance to you and industry

49. Providing you with the opportunity at the annual convention for fellowship and technical interchange with your colleagues in the profession

50. Providing you structured opportunities to expand your professional, human relations, and managerial skills by volunteering to serve on AmSECT committees as your contribution to the profession