AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, commonly called AMDA and previously called AMDA – Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine and American Medical Directors Association, is a medical specialty professional organization with a focus on providing long-term care.

The society publishes the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.

An affiliate of AMDA – Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine,^{[Notes 1]} the American Medical Directors Certification Program (AMDCP) accredits Certified Medical Directors (CMD) in long-term care. The AMDCP's mission is “to recognize and advance physician leadership and excellence in medical direction throughout the long-term care continuum through certification, thereby enhancing quality of care.” The presence of a CMD in nursing homes results in a 15% improvement in quality scores compared to those without CMDs.^[1] The AMDCP is the sole organization to accredit Certified Medical Directors in long-term care, and has certified more than 2,700 CMDs since the founding of the program in 1991.^[2]

Applications to the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (formerly, American Medical Directors Certification Program) are reviewed twice annually. To begin the certification process applicants must be a physician medical director at a long-term care facility, and have completed a post-graduate training program accredited by the U.S. Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or American Osteopathic Association, or a Canadian Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons or College of Family Physicians accredited post-graduate training program. Certification is earned with competence in clinical medicine and medical management in long-term care, after completing educational requirements.^[3] Continuing medical education in both clinical and leadership areas is a requirement to retain certification, as well as to recertify in the future. CMDs must recertify after six years.^[4]

Certified Medical Director is a certification offered by the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM), an affiliate of AMDA – the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (AMDA).^{[Notes 2]} The certification indicates a degree of expertise in long-term care, and is aimed at medical directors of nursing homes and similar long-term care facilities.

The Medical Director of the Year Award (MDOY) is given annually by the AMDA Foundation, an affiliate of AMDA.^[9] Nominations are accepted annually and reviewed by a Selection Committee. Recipients are awarded at AMDA's annual symposium, Long Term Care Medicine.

Recipients include:

• 2012: Noel DeBacker, MD, CMD ^[10][11]
• 2011: Sabine von Preyss-Friedman, MD, CMD ^[12][13]
• 2010: Robert Schreiber, MD, CMD ^[14]
• 2009: Rebecca L. Ferrini MD, MPH, CMD ^[15]
• 2008: J. Kenneth Brubaker], MD, CMD ^[16][17]
• 2007: Timothy Malloy, MD, CMD^[18]

• American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine
• Certified Medical Director
• List of medicine awards