Becoming a Member

Membership of the APACCM shall normally be through national/regional Societies and Associations of Critical or Intensive Care Medicine, all medically qualified members of such organizations in the Asia Pacific Region being eligible to be full members. Non-medically qualified members of such organizations shall be Associate members. Organizations with only non-medically qualified members (e.g. Societies and Associations of Critical or Intensive Care Nursing) may apply for membership if their aims and purposes are consistent with those of APACCM with their members being Associate members of APACCM.
A medically qualified person who is interested in Critical or Intensive Care Medicine may become a full member if practicing in a country/region without a national/regional organization of Critical or Intensive Care Medicine by application to the Secretary-General and, if approved, payment of the individual full member fee.

The types of membership shall be:

1. Full Member - a medically qualified person who is interested in Critical or Intensive Care Medicine and is a member of a national/regional organization of Critical or Intensive Care Medicine in the Asia Pacific Region;
2. Individual Member - a medically qualified person who is interested in Critical or Intensive Care Medicine.
3. Associate Member - a non-medically qualified person who is a member of a national/regional organization of Critical or Intensive Care Medicine, or an organization approved by the Council of APACCM as having aims and purposes similar to those of the APACCM;
4. Life Member - a medically qualified person who paid the life membership fee to APACCM before the date of ratification of the new constitution.
5. Honorary Member - a person elected as an honorary member by the Council of APACCM;
6. Patron Member - an individual or entity with an interest in the purposes of APACCM.
   Full, life, patron and honorary members shall have the following privileges:
   1. voting rights;
   2. eligible to stand for election as office bearer;
   3. eligible to stand for Council.