Membership
Why Join AAPI?

• Medical Student/Resident Section Almost 10 - 12% of freshman medical students in the U.S. are of Indian origin. AAPI brings together residents and medical students of Indian origin and exchanges ideas. Medical Students/Resident Section meet at the same time as AAPI governing body meetings and conventions.
  
• Advocacy at federal and state governments including state licensing boards.
  
• Personal guidance and counsel on discrimination in managed care and hospital privileges.
  
• Legislative Advocacy AAPI has grown steadily from a grassroots organization to a national voice, serving as a strong advocacy group for Indian physicians and IMG's members interests are the focus of all AAPI efforts on capital hill. AAPI 's grassroots campaign to influence legislative process or issues such a free and fair access to managed care plans, licensing, and reciprocity.
  
• Organizational representation to organized medicine, including AMA, state and county medical societies also specialty and ethnic (IMG) organizations. AAPI lobbied intensely for the creation of IMG section in AMA. IMG section, created in December 1996, will voice concerns of IMG's and provide representation to AMA House of Delegates. This achievement is further testimony of AAPI 's growing credibility and influence in main stream medical organization. AAPI also testified at the AMA to include merit as a criterion for resident selection.
  
• Charitable work in India and USA. Members can support motherland India through the activities of AAPI charitable foundation. AAPI runs 13 charitable clinics in India and helps the victims of national calamities. AAPI local chapters run charitable clinics in Chicago, Detroit, and Houston.
  
• Cultural AAPI provides opportunities for members to meet their old friends and develop new friends and enjoy various cultural activities that are organized during the convention
  
• Indian Community AAPI is working with other Indian organizations such as AAHOA can influence the important issues effecting Indian Americans and India. AAPI is one of the most important organizations through Indian Americans have the ability to build a solid political base. It can benefit the entire Indian community. AAPI and AAHOA are working together on various charitable projects in India.
  
• IMG Resource - AAPI organizes seminars which provide guidance with USMLE and CSA centers , getting into residency, survival skills during residency, visa information, job options and other issues that are of interest for newly arrived IMG physicians. AAPI plans to establish clinical externship programs similar to the one in Oklahoma to provide exposure to American medicine