ACOFP Auxiliary
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.
Goals • Support of the mission and vision of the ACOFP • Support of Osteopathic Family Physicians and their families • Support of Osteopathic Medical Students with family practice interests • Support of Osteopathic Family Medicine Residents and their families
ACOFP 47th Annual Convention Update
Left to Right Top Row: Jeff Mews, Marie Wiseman, Mary Jane Sawabini, Pat Anderson, Terry Martin
Left to Right Bottom Row: Chris Largent, Pat Molnar, Mollie Told.
President – Chris Largent
President-Elect – Jeff Mews
Vice President – Terry Martin
Secretary – Marie Wiseman
Treasurer – Patt Anderson
Appointed Officer – Mary Jane Sawabini
Young Physician Spouse Appointed Officer – Brian Jungeberg
Advisor – Debra Stasio
Parliamentarian – Patricia Molnar
Immediate Past President – Patricia Molnar
Board Liaison – Paul A. Martin, DO, FACOFP dist.
The Auxiliary Past Presidents are a link in the chain of our leadership. We thank them for their continued support and guidance.
Past Presidents of the ACOFP held a luncheon on March 5, 2009 at the ACOFP convention in Washington, DC.
Past President Listing
AACOFP Bylaws
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 and Residents.
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. Download Application
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The Auxiliary annually contributes to the ACOFP Scholarship and Student Loan Program. A $30,000 contribution in the year 2009 will fund twenty $1,000 and five $2,000 scholarships to qualified Osteopathic Medical Students.
To be eligible for the scholarship, the student must be currently enrolled in an 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.
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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.
The Auxiliary offers a chance to WIN $300 to the spouse of residents that take the Certification Board Exam. In order to win, residents must be currently enrolled in an AOA-approved Osteopathic Family Practice Residency, registered to take the certification board exam and registered to attend the ACOFP convention. Letters with an entry form are sent in January to all registered residents. Spouses must return a completed entry form and winners are randomly chosen and notified. The stipends are distributed to the lucky winning spouses at an Auxiliary meeting during the ACOFP spring convention.
The following are the resident spouse winners that attended the Auxiliary Business meeting in Las Vegas.
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.