The mission of the American Academy of Family Physicians is to promote excellence in health care andthe betterment of the health of the American people. Purposes in support of this mission are:
To provide responsible advocacy for the education of patients and the public in all health related matters.
To preserve and promote quality, cost-effective health care.
To promote the science and art of family medicine and to ensure an optimal supply ofwell-trained family physicians.
To promote and maintain high standards among physicians who practice family medicine.
To provide advocacy, representation and leadership for the specialty of family practice.
To maintain and provide an organization with high standards to fulfill the above purposes and to represent the needs of its members.
To accomplish the foregoing aims, ideals, and objectives, this academy may grant charters to a district of the Kentucky Academy of Family Physicians in such a manner as the Bylaws may from time to time provide; and shall have the power to acquire, own and convey real and personal property; to carry on research; to grant academic degrees in recognition of achievement in the science and practice of medicine and surgery; to issue publications; to establish, conduct and maintain schools, courses, museums, libraries, and other institutions for graduate study in medicine and surgery; and to use any and all means for the attainment of its objectives which from time to time may seem to it desirable.
This organization shall have no capital stock. It is not conducted for pecuniary profit and does not contemplate pecuniary gain or profit to the members thereof.