Boulder County Medical Society
Boulder County Medical Society is a professional membership organization for physicians in Boulder County, Colorado. It supports medical education, physician connection and wellbeing, and community health initiatives. Its public resources also help residents and clinicians find local physicians.
Organization profile
- Organization type
- Medical & professional society
- Headquarters / base
- Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Geographic scope
- Boulder County, Colorado, United States
Medical focus
Activities
Population served
Society and geographic scope
The society traces its founding to August 1952 and describes itself as a nonprofit professional membership organization. Its published contact base is in Boulder, while its remit covers the wider county. The Colorado Medical Society independently lists BCMS among its county-based component societies and links to its official website.
That relationship connects local physicians with statewide professional advocacy. BCMS and the Colorado Medical Society remain distinct named organizations; the county society is not another name for the statewide body.
Resources for physicians and the community
BCMS maintains a physician finder with searches by name, specialty and location. It is intended to support professional referrals and help residents identify physicians. Listings provide information such as medical education, specialty and practice contact details.
The society also describes an Opioid Awareness Project undertaken with the BCMS Foundation, a separate charitable organization established in 2023. The project provides community education materials about opioid and fentanyl risks. The foundation is not treated as a former name of the membership society.
Historical Colorado EKG Repository connection
The Colorado EKG Repository’s mission page, carrying revisions from 2007 and 2008, identifies BCMS as the society supervising the independent project’s development. The proposed service concerned secure exchange of electrocardiograms between emergency departments and community clinics.
This documents the society’s role in that historical project. It does not establish that the proposed exchange operates today or that BCMS currently supervises an ongoing repository service.
Sources: [4].
Further health reading
This guide to depressive illness provides mental-health background for the society’s work around physician wellbeing.
ECG is used in the assessment of a suspected heart attack. This gives clinical context to the ECG-sharing project supervised by BCMS in the 2007–2008 record.
Atrial fibrillation illustrates a rhythm condition assessed using ECG recordings, connecting this guide with BCMS’s historical involvement in ECG information exchange.
Sources
- Boulder County Medical Society: history, mission and contact base
- Colorado Medical Society: component societies
- Boulder County Medical Society: physician finder
- Colorado EKG Repository: historical mission page, revisions 2007 and 2008
- BCMS: distinct charitable foundation and joint Opioid Awareness Project
- nimh.nih.gov: health background for Major depressive disorder
- NHLBI: health background for Heart attack (myocardial infarction)
- NHLBI: health background for Atrial fibrillation
Institutional relationships