Maryland Chapter Receives the 2025 John Tooker Evergreen Award
The John Tooker Evergreen Awards Program provides recognition and visibility to chapters that have successfully implemented programs to increase membership, improve communication, encourage member involvement, enhance diversity, foster careers in internal medicine or improve chapter management. The Maryland Chapter received the 2025 John Tooker Evergreen Award for their initiative, Connecting and Supporting Through Stories: Monthly Story Swaps.
Connecting and Supporting Through Stories: Monthly Story Swap
Our newly created Wellness Committee identified social isolation as a concern for our members. Aware of the cohesion benefit of sharing personal stories and modeling on a popular Baltimore storytelling event, we created our own virtual story telling event.
We have hosted a total of 18 story swaps since the program’s inception with over 400 different individuals participating at least once. Starting in 2023, the wellness event allows attendees to discuss a particular issue, providing a venue for story tellers to feel empowered, supported, and heard regardless of their career trajectory. Since that time, there have been many varied themes selected from “Signature Strength at Work” to last month’s “We are in this Together.
Special thanks to this program’s key contributors:
Hari Devkota, MD, Maryland Chapter, Wellbeing Committee Chair
Previous Evergreen Awards
- CRAB Soccer Tournament (2024)
2023 Chapter Excellence Award – Gold Winner
We are pleased to announce that our chapter is in receipt of the Gold Level of the 2023 Chapter Excellence Award! The award recognizes truly extraordinary chapters that surpass excellence in chapter management. We are in the company of 54 other outstanding chapters. In order to achieve the Gold Level of the Chapter Excellence Award, chapters must meet nineteen Bronze criteria, seventeen Silver criteria and multiple Gold level activities. Criteria include such activities as having a legislative action plan or agenda, holding a volunteerism/community service activity, holding multiple stand-alone meetings, having revenue sources outside of dues and meeting registration fees, implementing a strategic plan, implementing a formal recruitment and retention plan and measuring outcomes, conducting various activities for Medical Students, Residents and Early Career Physicians.
We would like to extend a special thanks to those chapter members who assisted us in all of these endeavors! For their hard work and dedication, we received this award.
Maryland Chapter Receives a 2021 John Tooker Evergreen Special Recognition
The John Tooker Evergreen Awards Program provides recognition and visibility to chapters that have successfully implemented programs to increase membership, improve communication, increase member involvement, enhance diversity, foster careers in internal medicine and improve management of the chapter. The Maryland Chapter received a 2021 John Tooker Evergreen Special Recognition for their initiative, Virtual - Mulholland Mohler Residents Meeting