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About our Members The SMDM membership includes: • Clinicians, physician-scientists and social and quantitative scientists across a range of disciplines from North America, Europe and throughout the world, bringing a global, multidisciplinary perspective to our discussions and debates; • Members of academia, government, industry, and the nonprofit sector allowing our members to increase the reach and impact of their work; • Editors of and contributors to widely-read medical journals, thereby directly influencing the practice of clinical medicine and the setting of health policies; • Directors of training programs in clinical medicine, health services research, and decision sciences.

Research Interests Within SMDM •Behavioral Economics • Clinical Decision Making • Clinical Epidemiology • Comparative Effectiveness • Decision Analysis and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis • Decision Psychology • Evidence-Based Medicine • Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis • Global Health • Health Economics • Health Policy • Health Services Research • Improving Quality of Care • Knowledge Translation • Operations Research • Outcomes Research • Preference Assessment • Public Health • Quality of Life Research • Risk Communication and Risk Perception • Shared Decision Making • Simulation and Decision Modeling SMDM offers deeply discounted membership rates and meeting registration fees to trainees and to people residing in non-high income countries. Trainee eligibility is describd below. Non-high income country is based on country of residence, using the World Bank definition (see list).

Benefits of Membership

• Access to a network of health decision scientists around the world.
• Print and/or online subscriptions to Medical Decision Making, the Society’s journal.
• Discounts on SMDM’s North American and European Meetings.
• Discounts on educational offerings, including short courses and online educational resources.
• Job postings geared toward health decision scientists.
• SMDM Newsletter, published online quarterly.
• Mentoring and career development opportunities.
• Opportunity to submit nominations for the Outstanding Paper by a Young Investigator.
• Inclusion in and access to the SMDM online membership directory.

SMDM members contribute critically to health policy research in the areas of evidence-based medicine, cost effective health care, patient decision making and public health. For more information, see Contributions. For further information, SMDM has made available online the abstracts from previous meetings.

SMDM helps you to be more than just a face in the crowd. The connections you make through SMDM can help you build a network of long-term contacts to help you throughout your career. Don't take our word for it, read what others are saying.

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• Perspectives from a first-time Annual Meeting Attendee

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• Trainee Verification Form - SMDM offers deeply discounted rates to Trainees with verification of trainee status. Printable forms are in PDF format.

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