The Alberta Medical Association is an organization of physicians in the Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 province of Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

. It describes itself as an "advocate for its physician members, providing leadership and support for their role in the provision of quality health care". It is a provincial affiliate of the Canadian Medical Association

Canadian Medical Association

The Canadian Medical Association , with more than 70,000 members, is the largest association of doctors in Canada and works to represent their interests nationally. It formed in 1867, three months after Confederation...

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The Alberta Medical Association was formed in 1906, as the Canadian Medical Association, Alberta Division. It was originally intended to be an educational body, working in conjunction with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta

College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta

The College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta is a medical regulator in the Canadian province of Alberta. Its stated purpose is to "register physicians and issue medical practice permits, develop and administer standards of practice and conduct, and investigate and resolve physician-related...

. The association supported prepaid health insurance in the 1940s, and its advocacy helped bring about the government-created Medical Services (Alberta) Incorporated

Medical Services (Alberta) Incorporated

Medical Services Incorporated was a prepaid medicare plan in the Canadian province of Alberta prior to the advent of Canadian medicare...

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The group's name was formally changed to the Alberta Medical Association in the 1960s.