TMAA Learning Center

The TMA Alliance and TMA offer tools to aid local alliances and enhance your personal growth. Check back often as we will continue to add resources here.

Resources for Local Alliance Presidents   
This one-pager is a handy reference guide for new local alliance presidents to provide an overview of services and tools TMAA offers to assist you in this leadership role.

Best Practices for Volunteers
For a successful project, you need volunteers who bring value to your effort and who are reliable. These guidelines, developed by TMA’s Council on Health Promotion, can help you recruit, employ, and retain volunteers.

Rebooting a Local Alliance Chapter
Is your local alliance struggling to stay together or attract new members? Or maybe you want to start a new alliance in your area. Review these tips to assist you in starting, relaunching, or growing an alliance.

Canva Tips for the Poster Session
In advance of the Poster Session Reception during ALLMED 2026, Catherine Harrison, Smith County Medical Society Alliance, provides tips for using Canva to create a professional-looking poster to showcase your alliance’s signature program. This presentation was in March 2025 during the TMAA Local Leader Connection call.

Meeting Resources


Parliamentary Procedure/Robert's Rules of Order
Learn the ins and outs (and a little history) of parliamentary procedure. This video will provide tips and outline processes for effective meetings, including drafting meeting minutes, along with responsibilities of board members to help make meetings run smoothly.  

TMA Guide to Meeting Minutes
Check out this quick reference guide for what to include when taking minutes at your meetings.

TMA Resources


TMA Practice Well Podcast

Take advantage of TMA’s Practice Well Podcast, a free podcast with information about financial wellness, health topics, personal safety, and more. The podcast also offers episodes to help master medical business and practice — with relatable examples of day-to-day tasks and business operations that create a stronger climate for success. Podcast also is available for physicians to earn CME credit.

 

Listen to the TMA Practice Well Podcast on these additional streaming platforms; no subscription required.

 

Homebuying Help for Physician Families
 Physician families:Physician families: Need help with homebuying decisions? Take advantage of services designed by and for physicians – mortgages, refinancing, and other home loans – as part of TMA’s member benefits package: