By Ronnie B. Martin, DO, FACOFP dist.
June 10, 2008
Reminder: Call your Senators Regarding Physician Payment
Contact your senators in support of Senator Baucus’ bill to prevent the 10.6 percent reduction in Medicare fees, S 3101. Each physician needs to practice Chicago politics--vote early & vote often by contacting your elected leadership. Use the AOA's toll-free advocacy hotline to tell the U.S. Senate to preserve Medicare beneficiaries' access to physicians by ensuring that all physicians receive positive payment updates for 18 months. Call today 877.262.9400.
ACOFP Auxiliary Funds $1,000 Scholarships for Students
Joan M. Grzybowski, DO, FACOFP, Chair of the ACOFP Scholarship & Student Loan Committee, joins me and the Board of Governors in thanking the Auxiliary to the ACOFP and its President Pat Molnar for their ongoing financial support of our profession and our students. The committee selected from applications that included the following criteria for obtaining the scholarship: the recipient must be an OMSII, OMSIII or OMSIV student in good academic standing; the recipient must be an ACOFP member active in ACOFP student chapter activities; the student must have demonstrated financial need (what student doesn’t!) and must have letters of recommendation from the faculty advisor plus another AOBFP board certified osteopathic family physician.
The Auxiliary to the ACOFP generously donated $25,000 for individual student scholarships for the year 2008. Funds for this year’s scholarship were largely raised from donations obtained at the ACOFP Annual Convention's Casino Night and Auction held in Denver last March. This enjoyable evening continues to contribute to collegiality and support of the profession.
The committee is pleased to announce that the following students will each be receiving a $1,000 scholarship:
DMUOMC: Charleen Balcer,
Elizabeth Stover Lucore
LECOM-B: Kristy Cosgrove
MSUCOM: Leah Davis
NJSOM: Anne Jones
NSUCOM: Emmie Barford
OSUCOM: Zachary Fowler
OUCOM: Christina Gonzalez
PCOM: Lynn Marie Wilson
PCOM-GA: Connie Lee
PCSOM: Kara Brittany Caudill,
Michael J. Van Dyke
TCOM: Matthew Maruska
TOURO-CA: Matthew Jackson
TOURO-NV: Stephanie Morbeck,
Courtenay Morrow,
Anna-Marie Schuster
VCOM: Hillary Shemes
WVSOM: Teah Bayless
It is unfortunate that students from all schools did not submit applications for the reward, but we will encourage them to do so again this year. Congratulations to all the recipients and thank you to the Auxiliary.
Back to Campus
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine ACOFP Student Chapter sponsored the LECOM/Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital Residency Program to introduce their residency program and instruct students on diagnosing and treating plantar fasciitis. Each student was taught how to correctly wrap the foot of a patient with plantar fasciitis to remove stress from the fascia. Julie E. Kohley is the ACOFP Student Chapter President at PCOM.
Carol L. Henwood, DO, FACOFP, ACOFP Governor also presented a workshop on punch biopsies. Dr. Henwood began with a PowerPoint presentation, following which PCOM students had the opportunity to practice punch biopsies on pigs’ feet. Dr. Henwood will be returning in the fall to present a Saturday workshop on suturing that will be co-sponsored with PCOM’s surgery club.
Margaret Wilkins, DO, FACOFP Director of Medical Education at St. Joseph Medical Center in Reading, Pennsylvania and Chairperson of the ACOFP’s Critical Update Program this September in Chicago, Illinois was sponsored by the chapter to present OMM techniques to use in your office in under 15 minutes that are both beneficial to the patient and efficient for the physician. Dr. Wilkins, along with two of her residents, instructed students on techniques to drain upper respiratory infections, relieve back pain in pregnant women, and alleviate common GI issues.
Volunteer to be an ACOFP Preceptor Now!
ACOFP is actively recruiting community-based, board certified osteopathic family physicians to serve as Preceptors for our 10,000 student members as they search out selective or elective rotations. We encourage you to sign up by logging in, and click on “My Preceptor Profile” to submit your application or update your information and become a member of the ACOFP National Registry of Preceptors Database.
You can have no greater influence on the future of the profession than by serving as a mentor, role model and educator for one of our future colleagues.
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