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Mission and Purpose:
The mission of the South
Dakota Academy of Family Physicians is to improve the health of patients,
families and communities by serving the needs of members with
professionalism and creativity. (revised 2008) Purposes in support
of this mission are:
- To provide responsible
advocacy for and education of patients and the public in all
health-related matters;
- To preserve and promote
quality cost-effective health care;
- To promote the science and
art of family medicine and to ensure an optimal supply of
well-trained family physicians;
- To promote and maintain high
standards among physicians who practice family medicine;
- To preserve the right of
family physicians to engage in medical and surgical procedures for
which they are qualified by training and experience;
- To provide access to cost
effective state of the art quality care;
- To provide advocacy,
representation and leadership for the specialty of family medicine;
- To maintain and provide an
organization with high standards to fulfill the above purposes and
to represent the needs of its members.
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