The Ohio State Medical Association Alliance (OSMA Alliance) was originally known as the Woman’s Auxiliary to the Ohio State Medical Association, later the Ohio State Medical Association Auxiliary, and subsequently the Ohio State Medical Association Alliance. The organization’s constitution and bylaws were adopted in 1940, and the first convention was held in 1941. It is a nonprofit organization that provides educational programming and support for the "medical family" of physicians and their families. The state alliance is an umbrella organization for a network of local/county alliances throughout Ohio and is affiliated with both the Ohio State Medical Association and the American Medical Association Alliance. Events and meetings are held in-person and online. The organization is funded by member dues and communicates with members through member emails, newsletters, and social media. They previously published magazines under the titles The Ohio State Medical Auxiliary News, the Auxiliary Journal, and the Alliance Journal. Their member newsletter is called "To Keep in Touch" (TKIT). Programs and activities relate to mental health and financial and political issues that particularly affect physicians and their families. OSMA Alliance lobbies for passage of legislation that they believe would be beneficial to medical providers. They also raise money for charitable causes such as providing stipends to medical students who may be required to work in unpaid internships and programs that support better mental health for medical providers.
The Ohio State Medical Association Alliance Records (11 linear feet, 992 MB) contains records primarily of the state level organization, but also some records of the national organization, the American Medical Association Alliance, and county level organizations. The county organization most represented in the records is the Lake County Medical Alliance. Additionally, there are records of the OSMAA and AMAA predecessors, the Woman’s Auxiliary of the Ohio State Medical Association and the Woman’s Auxiliary of the American Medical Association.
This collection is arranged in four series:
Series I: Media (9 boxes) contains scrapbooks and photographs documenting OSMAA events, history and members, particularly the Lake County Medical Alliance. The scrapbooks contain a variety of enclosures, including, but not limited to invitations, meeting minutes, membership directories and mailings, news clippings, newsletters, photographs, and programs. The series is arranged by type of media.
Series II: Objects and Oversized (1 box) contains two tote bags, a plaque with the names of recipients of the OSMA Alliance Membership Spirit Award, ribbons, name tags, a pen, bookmark, magnets, poster and oversize publications.
Series III: Organizational Records (4 boxes) contains records from the county, state and national organizations. County organizations represented in the records include medical alliances in Allen, Clark, Fairfield, Hamilton, Lake, Lucas, Mahoning, Miami, Montgomery, Muskingum, Richland, Stark and Summit counties, and the Columbus Medical Alliance. Records document events and meetings, publications and communications, administration, outreach and advocacy. The Lake County Medical Alliance records include extensive documentation of a scholarship program they administered for students pursuing health science careers. This series is arranged in alphabetical order.
Series IV: Digital Materials (992 MB, 310 Files) contains photographs of OSMAA presidents, OSMAA activities, and AMAA presidents from Ohio. There are also photographs of OSMAA activities. Scholarship files relate to scholarship programs for students studying a variety of medical fields that were operated by the Lake County Medical Alliance. The digital files were copied from two flash drives.
The collection is open to the public and is available for viewing in the Medical Heritage Center. Digital materials that are part of this collection are not available online. Physical materials do not circulate and must be used in the supervised reading room.
Restrictions, including copyright, may exist and some materials may be too fragile to photocopy or digitize. The MHC charges for duplication services, which must be performed by staff.
[Identification of item], Ohio State Medical Association Alliance Records, SPEC.202410.OSMAA, Medical Heritage Center, Health Sciences Library, The Ohio State University.