Welcome to the Palm Beach County Medical Society!

PBCMS is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to uniting physicians to serve the common interest of the profession, developing and maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards of the medical profession, advocating the interests of physicians and their patients, and collaborating with others to improve the community’s health.

We are currently accepting applications for a Resident and Medical Student to serve on our 2019 Board of Directors.  

Click here for the Resident Board Representative Application

Click here for the Medical Student Representative Application

All letters and applications must be scanned and submitted via email to [email protected] by 5:00pm on Thursday, November 29, 2018.

2019 JAMES J. BYRNES, MD POSTER SYMPOSIUM

The Palm Beach County Medical Society (PBCMS) is issuing a Call for Abstracts for its Poster Symposium, as part of the Future of Medicine Summit at the Kravis Center on February 7, 2019. PBCMS’ objective for the poster presentations is to offer students, residents, fellows, and other physician scholars an opportunity to share significant research and interesting clinical vignettes with their fellow clinicians. We encourage all of our colleagues to participate in this educational program by submission of an abstract and application. 

Application Process:
1.Submit the following materials to [email protected] by Friday, December 14, 2018
a. Poster Application Form, including Abstract of no greater than 450 words.
b. A completed and signed Disclosure Form for each person listed as an author.

Fact Sheet 

Application

Disclosure Form

FMA News

Mandatory Opioid CME Information
Mandatory consultation of PDMP database went into effect July 1, 2018. The following are opportunities for the Mandatory Opioid CME that are available.

Online 
Florida Medical Association
Controlled Substance Prescribing Course for MD/DO - https://flmedical.inreachce.com/Details/Information/c64bbce1-c037-4008-b6bd-1204fd149224 

Florida Department of Health HB21 FAQ - http://www.flhealthsource.gov/FloridaTakeControl/faqs

Baptist Health South Florida CME Portal and Online Learning Program 
The Baptist Health Online Learning Program appreciates the opportunity to be able to provide the Prescribing Controlled Substances course to Palm Beach County allopathic and osteopathic physicians – at no charge. The direct URL to all relicensure courses on the Baptist Health CME Portal is Compliance.BaptistHealth.net. Please contact the Baptist Health CME Department by email [email protected] or phone 786-596-2398. Click here for more information. 

PBCMS Board of Directors Physician Statements 

Click here to read the PBCMS Board of Directors Physician Statement on Gun Violence 

Click here to read the PBCMS Board of Directors Opioid Position Statement