The Distinguished Fellow Award of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians may be conferred on Founder and Active Members who have contributed and completed four of the five Category One requirements below since their Fellow induction year:

Category 1

1. Academic Service
   Contributions of academic services are defined as participation as an ACOFP preceptor, moderator, or academic/scientific lecturer. Documentation must be submitted indicating at least three separate instances of the above.
   
2. Fellow Sponsorship
   Contributions of Fellow sponsorship are defined as three or more ACOFP completed sponsored Fellows.
   
3. Financial Support of ACOFP
   Contributions of financial support are defined as donations made of $1000 or more to the ACOFP Education & Research Foundation, a donation of national moderator/speaker fees, a donation to ACOFP committee activities, or a donation to ACOFP educational program development (Political Contributions do not qualify and must include documentation by check stub, confirmation Letter, etc.)
   
4. National ACOFP Committee Service
   Contributions of national ACOFP committee service are defined as eleven or more total years of participation on a committee, task force, Board of Governors, or Congress delegate.
   
5. State or Local Service
   Contributions of state or local osteopathic family physician related committee service are defined as eleven or more total years of participation on a committee, task force, Board of Governors, Executive Committee, Congress delegator Medical/Hospital Board.

Category 2

Each nominee must have attended a minimum of at least twenty (20) total ACOFP Annual Conventions in the spring and/or ACOFP/AOA Annual Conventions in the fall since the Fellow induction year. Attendance at the convention on which you became a distinguished fellow can be one of the twenty required.

Those Fellows that were delayed in achieving their ACOFP Fellowship due to being in the Military may request a waiver of the above requirement, after five (5) years of active fellowship.

Each ACOFP State Society President may nominate two (2) deceased designated Fellows from their State Society to receive a posthumous Distinguished Fellow designation. One applicant per State Society will be awarded annually. Family members of the recipient(s) may accept the award on behalf of the deceased member during the Fellows Designation Ceremony.

All completed applications must be postmarked no later than September 1, 2010 for the next award ceremony to:
American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP)
c/o Awards Committee
330 E. Algonquin Road, Suite 1
Arlington Heights, Illinois 60005

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