About MSMA
WHAT IS MSMA?
Missouri State Medical Association
- The Mission of the Missouri State Medical Association is to serve its members through promotion of the science and art of medicine, protection of the health of the public and betterment of the medical profession in Missouri.
- We are the voice of more than 4,000 Missouri physicians and physicians-in-training who strongly support the need for organized medicine and want to be active within their profession.
- We are Medicine's advocate at the Missouri Capitol, the Department of Health, the Department of Insurance, and the Board of Healing Arts.
- We serve thousands of physicians, patients, and communities on issues at the local level.
- We are hundreds of dedicated physicians and staff who are working to maintain medical standards and ethics, and ensure Missourians' access to quality health care.
FOUNDATION
Missouri State Medical Foundation
Helping students focus on their medical education for over 50 years, the Missouri State Medical Foundation has benefitted thousands of medical students statewide. We thank the many donors who have committed their energy and resources to fulfilling the Foundation’s mission, and we are grateful for their generosity.
For over 20 years, MSMA Scholarships have been funded by the Foundation for students at each of Missouri's medical schools. The Foundation has also facilitated the creation of scholarship funds through a matching grant program.
Donations may be sent to: MSMA | PO Box 1028 | Jefferson City, MO 65102
Contact Jeff Howell at jhowell@msma.org for more information.
THE BEGINNING
Our History
In 1850, when the inhabitants of Missouri were fighting scourges of typhoid, malaria, smallpox, and diphtheria, physicians assembled to “devise a plan by which the entire medical profession of the State can be brought together.” Matters of importance that year were the passage of a good medical practice act; the establishment of a uniform system of registering births, marriages, and deaths; the control of dispensing impure drugs and competent inspections of medicines; and a liberal preliminary education for those entering the study of medicine.
Since MSMA's creation, the Constitution and Bylaws and Policy Manual have reflected the changes and modernization of Missouri's medicine.
176
Years of organized medicine in Missouri
4,000+
Physician & student members statewide
4
Government bodies where we represent you
123+
Volumes of the Missouri Medicine Journal
