Welcome to the AMS website. This website reflects the changes that AMS has undergone and the historical basis of AMS’s evolution as an innovative charitable organization that has been making a contribution to the health and health care of Canadian society for the past seven decades. Whereas AMS pioneered the use of modern technology in health services administration (known then as IBM cards), it is now reliant on modern forms of information technology as represented by the internet and the web.

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The website incorporates the logo and motto adopted in 2005 by the AMS Board. The logo is a representation of a snowflake as a symbol of AMS charity and contribution that has been distributed across the nation over the past decades. Like snowflakes the influence of AMS charity is spread widely. AMS's contribution has been distributed in different forms resulting in a profound and enduring impact on people and institutions through endowed chairs, support for scholarly activity and publications and other forms of contribution to health care.

AMS the corporation has also evolved. Jason Hannah’s unrecognized landmark contribution in prepaid health care was eventually supplanted by government-sponsored prepaid health care across the nation. AMS’s contribution to history of medicine, bioethics and education is having a continuing impact in various manifestations throughout Canada and beyond. Given the success of its contributions in history, bioethics and education AMS the corporation is no longer providing intramural expertise and support but provides continuing financial support for worthwhile initiatives that are administered and sustained by universities and academic/clinical departments and publishers. Competitive grants that have been offered and administered by AMS are evolving into partnered grants such as the grants-in-aid that are available under the partnership with the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)and the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine (CSHM). The AMS Board of Directors has determined that there will be no additional competitive grants to be administered by AMS. All of the current competitive grants will be brought to closure.

AMS will continue to provide Board approved grants in areas that have been traditionally supported by AMS, specifically history, humanities and professional education in the health sciences. Inquiries with respect to an AMS board grant should be directed to the AMS President/CEO, Dr. B. William Shragge by email or telephone at (416) 924 3368.