Membership Benefits

The benefits of becoming an TIPS member include:

1. Networking: Meet other physicians with similar backgrounds in your area. Especially important for new physicians, helping them gain ground, learn to establish practices, gain patient referrals, start joining associations, etc.
2. Exposure: TIPS serves as a community liaison, by providing exposure through hospital staff, health fairs and newspaper announcements of ongoing activities of the members, especially for local charitable fundraising events.
3. Active Involvement: TIPS Life members are eligible to run for office a and a chance to serve on TIPS committees.  All active members are eligible to vote at TIPS annual meeting.
4. Stay Informed: Getting current up to date information by TIPS news letters.
5. Participation: Current members, there spouse and youth volunteers can participate in TIPS activities, e.g. Health Fairs, Talent Shows, Fashion shows, Fundraising activities and Family Picnics, etc.
6. Directory: TIPS directory is a valuable tool for quick and easy reference to other colleagues and specialists. The directory is also sent to hospitals, religious centres, ethnic establishments, etc. thereby providing a resource for non-physicians to look up the physicians in their community.
7. Negotiating or Buying Power: Also planned for the future, we intend to utilize our leverage, only available as a large group, to negotiate discounted prices for products and services that we all need. For example, getting an EMR discounted to the entire group, or purchasing office supplies from a vendor at a discounted rate. This also include negotiating favourable for Malpractice Insurance discount, Contract with HMO providers, etc.
8. Peer to Peer Exposure: Applies to those younger physicians, interns, college students, and pre-meds, who want to shadow established physicians or do an externship or rotation through an office. Peer to peer exposure offers younger students an opportunity to learn and gain insights from physicians in a variety of disciplines.
9. Education with Entertainment: Physicians can attend educational dinner meetings with live or recorded presentations by nationally renowned speakers. Also planned for the future, weekend seminars with lectures by accredited speakers on a variety of medical topics to help maintain educational goals and continue your CME credits.
10. Political Backing/Fundraising: TIPS as an organization has the numbers and strength for promoting and supporting politicians, parties and organizations who help and support the shared goals of our organization and the medical community.
11. Youth Volunteers: Participation in volunteer activities in TIPS functions, e.g. Health Fairs, and receive school credits for volunteer hours.  Available to member’s family.
12. Sharing: Experience and share cultural events, and have an opportunity to socialize.