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The NAM Final Ballot Development (May-July)
What is the Final Ballot?
- The Final Ballot is the actual election of new NAM members.
- The ballot is developed by the Membership Committee, which is composed of the chairs and vice chairs of each section.
- The strength of the ballot development process is that it is firmly grounded in:
- Members’ evaluations of the candidates, as expressed through the section priority balloting; and
- An objective set of policies and procedures that are applied consistently by the Membership Committee.
How is the Final Ballot Developed?
- The Membership Committee develops the Final Ballot in June.
- Sixty-five members under the age of 66 may be elected each year. Each section begins with a fixed allocation for a combined total of 41 “base” ballot slots. The remaining 24 “at large” slots may draw candidates from any section.
Base Slots:
- Section leaders propose candidates for their section’s base allocation using the rank ordered section priority ballot results as the key determining factor.
- The Committee confirms the base slot selections.
At Large Slots:
- At large slots are determined by the Membership Committee through a standard sequence of steps (Process: At Large).
- At large slots include:
- Emphasis Areas: currently up to 9 slots for demographic emphases and up to 5 slots for subject emphasis. Emphasis Areas are designated annually by the NAM Council. They place a special focus on filling specific membership needs.
- Bridging Candidates: up to 5 slots. These are candidates whose achievements are in disciplines/expertise areas that are represented by two or more NAM membership sections.
- Undesignated At-Large: at least 5 slots. These are additional highly qualified candidates.
Regular 66+ : Up to 5 candidates who are or will be 66 or older as of October 1 are placed on the ballot in their sections; no more than 2 may be in the same section.
International: Up to 5 candidates, drawn from any section are listed on the ballot in a separate category but, upon election, they are placed in their respective sections.
Last Steps:
- The ballot is arranged in 8 categories:
I. Physical, Mathematical, Computer, Information & Engineering Sciences (Section 1)
II. Biological and Basic Biomedical Sciences (Sections 2 and 3)
III. Medical Disciplines (Sections 4 – 8)
IV. Public Health, Biostatistics and Epidemiology (Section 9)
V. Other Health Professions (Section 10)
VI. Social Sciences, Humanities and Law (Section 11)
VII. Administration of Health Services, Education and Research (Section 12)
VIII. International Members - Candidate placement on the ballot is in priority order
- In accordance with NAM bylaws requiring at least 50% more candidates than the number to be elected in each category, additional candidates are placed on the final ballot based on section priority ballot rankings.
- The proposed ballot is submitted to the NAM Council for approval in July.
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