ACOFP Fellow Applications Due September 1, 2012

The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians is now accepting applications for the 2013 ACOFP Fellows Award.  The award is designed to recognize individual members who have contributed outstandingly through teaching, authorship, research, or professional leadership, either state or national, to the stated purposes of the ACOFP.  Applicants must:

• Have served a one-year AOA-approved internship and have been a dues paying member at any level of the ACOFP for at least six consecutive years prior to nomination. In the event the nominee has not served a one-year AOA-approved internship, the nominee shall have been a dues paying member of this College for at least eight consecutive years prior to nomination; 
• Be certified by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the American Board of Medical Specialists (ABMS); 
• Actively participate in local and state osteopathic organizations and ACOFP affiliate societies; 
• Support past and current hospital, state society, and national activities of the ACOFP;
• Have attended and registered as a family physician for a minimum of six ACOFP or AOA/ACOFP Annual Conventions in the immediate past ten years  (At least three meetings must be ACOFP Annual Conventions and the remainder may be OMED Annual Conventions;  one ACOFP Intensive Update & Board Review in Osteopathic Family Medicine may be used in place of an OMED Annual Convention; and the candidate may count the convention they become a Fellow as one of the ACOFP conventions attended.)

Ohio applicants must be nominated by a current Fellow. Contact the Ohio ACOFP office or any of the following ACOFP Board members for assistance:  Robert L. Hunter, DO, FACOEP, FACOFP; Geraldine N. Urse, DO, FACOFP; or Christopher J. Loyke, DO, FACOFP. 

Applications must be submitted through the sponsor and accompanied by (1) a letter of endorsement from the sponsor and the ACOFP state society (or a second fellow from Ohio); (2) a completed, unpublished scientific paper pertinent to family practice that should be submitted to the sponsor one month in advance for review and editing, and for a written appraisal, which will be made part of the applicant;’s file; and (3) a check for $195.  Unsuccessful candidates will have a portion of the fee returned.  If the application is approved, an additional fee of $375 is required for cap and gown rental, ceremony expenses and a plaque.   

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