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Membership Benefits
Thank you for your interest in learning more about the International
Psycho-0ncology Society (IPOS).
- Membership Application for
new members or reclassification
- 2008 Membership
Renewal for current members (Login to the IPOS Members-Only
website to take advantage of Online Membership Renewal)
IPOS is a multidisciplinary group of professionals working
in the field of psychosocial and behavioral oncology, caring
for patients with cancer. First organized
in 1984,
both the membership and leadership of the group has evolved
to reflect
the full range of disciplines that are involved with clinical
care, research, teaching and advocacy for patients with cancer,
and their families.
Please review our Mission Statement.
Membership Benefits
- 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 journal Psycho-Oncology, twelve annual issues;
- Opportunity to subscribe, for reduced members-only rates,
to the Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, four annual issues;
- Opportunity to subscribe, for reduced members-only rates,
to Palliative and Supportive
Care, four annual issues;
- 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;
- Participation in online Email discussion forum (list server);
- Free membership in the Psycho-Oncology Group of the World
Psychiatric Association (must complete the WPA
Group Application Form)
- Opportunity to pose research or clinical questions and receive
online Email feedback from IPOS members;
- Opportunity to propose and participate in health care policy
initiatives through IPOS to improve psychosocial care at an
international level;
- Participation in cross-cultural research initiatives and
surveys regarding clinical practice and research, and access
to a multilingual psychosocial oncology curriculum;
- 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;
- Reduced rates for conferences and symposia supported by
IPOS (including the World
Congress of Psycho-Oncology) and those with reciprocity
with IPOS (under development);
- Opportunity to serve on IPOS committees to influence the
international efforts in education and research that IPOS
can uniquely undertake; and
- Annual receipt of certificate of membership suitable for
framing.
We look forward to your support and active participation in
the future.
Sincerely,
Luigi Grassi, MD, PhD
President, IPOS
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