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Be a part of a dynamic network of physicians, residents and medical students – members who are all dedicated to protecting the health care interests of patients and enhancing the effectiveness of physicians throughout South Dakota.

Your SDSMA membership is valuable, giving you access to networking and leadership opportunities with your local colleagues in your District Medical Society, free subscription to the monthly peer-reviewed journal South Dakota Medicine, your name and practice information in the physician directory, and most especially you’ll benefit from the advocacy work we do on behalf of our profession and our patients.

SDSMA membership is important because:

• We work to improve health care in South Dakota.
  
  
• Policymakers need physician input.
  
  
• We provide an avenue for physicians to be an advocate for their patients at the state and local level through opportunities like the SDSMA Doctor of the Day program, and volunteer physician lobbyists.
  
  
• Involvement strengthens physician voices and our ability to practice high-quality medical care

See a full list of member benefits here.

If applicable, you may wish to check with your employer as they may offer coverage of membership dues as an employee benefit, or through CME funds.

To speak with a SDSMA staff member, call 605.336.1965 or email membership@sdsma.org.

Active Membership

To qualify as an “Active” member, the applicant must:

• Be licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy in the state of South Dakota
  
  
• Be in good professional standing
  
  
• Not practice or claim to practice any system or means of healing which is not generally accepted in the medical community; and
  
  
• Be a member in good standing in their District Medical Society. Active members are voting members of SDSMA. 

Active members need not be residents of South Dakota. Acceptance as a member of SDSMA and payment of the required dues has the effect of making the applicant a member of the applicant’s District Medical Society.

If you are applying after July 1 of the current year, contact the SDSMA office prior to submitting your payment.