The American Institute of Minimally Invasive Surgery is the nation's pre-eminent educator of advanced surgical techniques. Not only do we teach minimally invasive methods, but we also support our graduates with membership opportunities where they can find marketing support, consulting services, and strategies to help them grow and strengthen their practices. Beyond that, AIMIS also provides resources for patients, corporate partners and physician members and affiliates to help foster progress throughout the medical profession as a whole. It is the philosophy of AIMIS that the foundations of better care, greater safety and increased efficacy that are inherent to minimally invasive surgery should be carried out through every facet of medicine. This is a discipline that touches our patients' lives in many ways, from their health to their finances. By establishing partnerships with companies and individuals from a wide range of disciplines within medicine - including insurance professionals, physicians, administrators and executives - we help ensure an approach that is as broad as the challenges we face.