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ACOFP Auxiliary

ACOFP Auxiliary

AACOFP Mission
Auxiliary Officers
Auxiliary Bylaws
Auxiliary Membership
Auxiliary Funding Supports
Scholarships
Student Leadership Development Program
Resident Spouses' Lottery
AACOFP and AAOA

 

AACOFP Mission

The Auxiliary’s mission is to support the ACOFP, the osteopathic students with family practice interests and family practice residents by raising funds for various programs.

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Auxiliary Officers 2008 - 2009
Left to Right Top Row: Terry Martin, Vice President; Mollie Told, Immediate Past President; Marie Wiseman, Secretary;
Left to Right Bottom Row: Jeff Mews, Treasurer; Patricia Molnar, President; Chris Largent, President-Elect.

President – Patricia Molnar

President-Elect – Chris Largent

Vice President – Terry Martin

Secretary – Marie Wiseman

Treasurer – Jeff Mews

Parliamentarian – Ann Carter

Immediate Past President – Mollie Told

Board Liaison – Kenneth A. Heiles, DO, FACOFP dist.

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AACOFP Bylaws

2008 AACOFP Bylaws pdf

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Auxiliary Membership

Membership to the Auxiliary is available to spouses of Osteopathic Physicians. To accomplish our goals, we need your support. The Auxiliary supports the ACOFP Scholarship Program, the students in a Leadership Development Program, and to encourage Auxiliary awareness, the residents in Resident Programs. The Auxiliary is not only a woman's organization. Approximately half of the entering medical students are women and many have spouses or significant others. We welcome and encourage your membership. Without your support and membership, we cannot accomplish our goals to help our Osteopathic Medical Students.

We are working to assist each other as a total family unit, and we hope that you will share your interests with your colleagues and friends. Annual Auxiliary membership dues are $20 and are included in the ACOFP dues notice sent to physicians. If you are not a member, we urge you to join. The Auxiliary continues to grow in strength and in dedication always striving to build a stronger and more effective organization.

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AACOFP’s “Few Good Men Say:” Join the Auxiliary!
By Chris Largent, Auxiliary member
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Auxiliary Funding Supports
  • Scholarships - Annually contributes to the ACOFP Scholarship and Student Loan Program to qualified osteopathic medical students.
  • Student Leadership Development Program - Help students offset costs of food, lodging and travel expenses enabling them to enhance their leadership skills through programs presented at ACOFP conventions.
  • Residents Spouses Lottery - The Auxiliary offers through a lottery, four $500 stipends to resident spouses attending the ACOFP convention.
  • Resident Emergency Reserve Funds - Financial assistance to residents that are displaced by closing residency programs.
  • AACOFP and AAOA - Annually contributes to AAOA programs and is affiliated with the Advocates for the American Osteopathic Association
  • Membership - Available to spouses or significant others.

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Scholarships

The Auxiliary annually contributes to the ACOFP Scholarship and Student Loan Program. A $25,000 contribution in the year 2008 will fund twenty-five, $1,000 scholarships to qualified Osteopathic Medical Students.

To be eligible for the scholarship, the student must be currently enrolled in a second, third or fourth year accredited osteopathic medical school, a member of ACOFP and active with the school ACOFP Student Chapter. Applicants must intend to enter an AOA approved family practice residency program and must submit letters of recommendation from an AOBFP certified family practice osteopathic physician, ACOFP student chapter faculty Advisor, and a College financial aid office demonstrating need.

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Student Leadership Development Program

ACOFP Student Chapter officers from each osteopathic college attend the National ACOFP Convention. While at the convention, students gain the information and skills they need to enable them to return to their campuses and ensure that the ACOFP Student Chapters remain active and successful organizations. Auxiliary support enables more students to attend each convention and benefit from the leadership development programs, OMT sessions, Osteopathic Family Practice Residency Programs exhibits, talk to active members of ACOFP about a future in the profession and forge relationships that last a lifetime. Surveys of student leaders all point to attending an ACOFP convention as an important turning point in their decision to become osteopathic family practice physicians and remain active with ACOFP.

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Resident Spouses’ Lottery

Pictured from left to right:
Brian Jungeberg, Strongsville, Ohio; Maha Zaid from Grand Blanc, MI; Rebecca Kincaid from Kirksville, MO; Eric Loomis from Wilmington, NC; Jesse Miles from Edinboro, PA

Not pictured: Thomas Hopkins from Emmaus, PA; and Sindy Dickens from Roanoke, VA.

The Auxiliary offers $300 stipends to Resident Spouses' who attend the ACOFP Annual Convention. Residents must be currently enrolled in an AOA-approved Osteopathic Family Practice Residency and registered to take the Board exam. Letters are mailed in January to qualifying residents and four winners are randomly chosen. The stipends are distributed at an Auxiliary meeting during the ACOFP Spring Convention.

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AACOFP and the AAOA
Advocates to the AOA and ACOFP Auxiliary presidents get together at the ACOFP 43rd Annual Convention in Grapevine, Texas, March 2006.
Left to Right: Shirley Bayles, AAOA Past President; Dianna Silvagni, AAOA President; Debby Murphy, AAOA President-Elect; Debra Stasio, AACOFP Immediate Past President.

The AACOFP is affiliated with the Advocates for the American Osteopathic Association (AAOA). The AACOFP provides funds to support a workshop for the Student Associates Auxiliary (SAA) Presidents at the Fall AOA Convention. Annually we grant each of the SAA Presidents a stipend to help defray the cost of attending the AAOA House of Delegates. Other annual contributions are presented to the AAOA golf tournament and to the AAOA Special Projects.

The object and purpose of the AACOFP, as a nonprofit corporation, is to promote and support educational activities of the osteopathic profession. To achieve these objectives the Auxiliary to the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians correlates activities with the Advocates for the American Osteopathic Association.

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ACOFP 45th Annual Convention Update

 

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