Membership Benefits

• Membership Application for new members or reclassification
  
• 2009 Membership Renewal for current members (Login to the IPOS Members-Only website to take advantage of Online Membership Renewal)
  

• Access to an international network of professionals in the areas of oncology, psychiatry, psychology, nursing, social work and clergy;
• Opportunity to subscribe, for reduced members-only rates, to the official journal of IPOS, Psycho-Oncology, twelve annual issues (approximately 85% off the regular personal subscription rate), published by John Wiley & Sons and edited by Jimmie C. Holland MD and Maggie Watson PhD;
• Reduced rates for conferences and symposia supported by IPOS, including the World Congress of Psycho-Oncology;
• Access to the members-only Web site, including online membership directory for up-to-date member contact information;
• Your name and contact information included in the online directory of members;
• Opportunity to pose research or clinical questions and receive online e-mail feedback from IPOS members via an online discussion forum (listserv);
• Opportunity to subscribe, for reduced members-only rates, to other journals that may be of interest: Palliative and Supportive Care, (four annual issues, published by Cambridge University Press and edited by William Breitbart MD, Harvey Max Chochinov MD, Simon Wein MBBS, FRACP and Donna Cassetta MFA); Journal of Cancer Survivorship (four annual issues, published by Springer and edited by Michael Feuerstein PhD, MPH);
• Free membership in the Psycho-Oncology Group of the World Psychiatric Association (must complete the WPA Group Application Form);
• Access to a multilingual psychosocial oncology curriculum;
• Participation in cross-cultural research initiatives and surveys regarding clinical practice and research;
• Access to online information about research and clinical training programs, support for training opportunities, evidence-based clinical practice guidelines;
• Opportunity to suggest and organize liaisons to organizations in the various supportive care disciplines that have a mission for providing psychosocial care to cancer patients and their families;
• Opportunity to propose and participate in health care policy initiatives through IPOS to improve psychosocial care at an international level;
• Opportunity to serve on IPOS committees to influence the international efforts in education and research that IPOS can uniquely undertake; and
• Annual certificate of membership suitable for framing.