Initial Certification Grant
Up to $1,400 towards fees and travel for your residents.
ACOFP Helps you
Support Your Residents
ACOFP is your home as an osteopathic medical educator, and the gateway for connecting your residents, and faculty with the latest and best resources for osteopathic family physicians.
Learn about what resources exist for Program Directors and the whole residency training team, as well as what ACOFP has to support your residents. New this year, ACOFP also offers organizational membership, which may be the perfect option for your team.
Connect with this community and make your first step to join us.
Deepen Your Professional Learning
- Learn about our annual Faculty Development and Program Director's (FDPD) Conference virtual event.
- View on-demand sessions from the 2025 FDPD event in our eLearning Center.
- Access education specifically for residency programs from our partners, the FORWARD: Obesity Curriculum.
- Nominate a colleague for the Master Preceptor Award or the Osteopathic Family Medicine Educator of the Year Award.
- Submit your residency roster to ACOFP.
Introduce OMTeaching to Your Program
ACOFP has created a supplemental digital tool that blends seamlessly into your current curriculum, including an expansive library of OMT demonstration videos. Incorporating this into your curriculum also helps show how OMT can be billed for and serve as a source of income as your residents enter practice.
- OMTeaching is designed to be plugged into your residency curriculum with pre-built PowerPoints, quizzes, and videos to support continuous learning for your residents. The curriculum was built to help you, as a faculty member, teach future physicians the fundamentals of OMT.
- OMTotal, the largest library of OMT demonstration videos, is FREE for all ACOFP physician members. It allows you to refine your skills with step-by-step demonstrations of OMT techniques and is available online and in the ACOFP 365 mobile app.
Navigating
the Osteopathic Pathway
We request that your first-year osteopathic residents be allowed to take the AOBFP's annual osteopathic family medicine In-Service Exam (ISE), which is an equally valid and accepted assessment tool as the ABFM's ITE. The ISE offers predictive value, and early board certification eligibility, and can be taken remotely without proctors. Additionally, a grant from the ACOFP Foundation is available to cover the costs for programs that have not traditionally supported the ISE.
Support your resident's pathway to certification
View the Webinar: Navigating the Osteopathic Pathway
Leaders from ACOFP, AOBFP, and the ACOFP Foundation gather in this on-demand webinar to help guide Program Directors and residents in the process. Learn how the ISE correlates to the AOBFP Board exam, EEIC, and why you should take advantage of the ACOFP Foundation's Initial Certification Grant.
Read the Correlation Study
Board Certification is acknowledged as the mainstay for ensuring quality physician-delivered health care within one’s specialty. Unique assessment processes are integral to monitoring the development of the osteopathic family physician throughout training and into practice, and to verify their competency for the safety and protection of the public.
This study sought to investigate whether performance on the AOBFP In-Service Exam (ISE) predicted performance on the AOBFP Certifying Exam (CE), and thereby successfully equipped residents to safely enter medical practice.
For those residents performing above the tenth percentile on the AOBFP ISE, there was a 99% correlation with subsequent first-time passage of the AOBFP-CE.
Access the Osteopathic Recognition Toolkit
ACOFP and the Assembly of Osteopathic Graduate Medical Educators (AOGME)/AACOM collaborated to provide resources for programs with or applying for Osteopathic Recognition.
We have pooled resources and sample evaluations to help programs in their efforts to attain Osteopathic Recognition.
This toolkit will contain sample evaluations and other resources that you can use to help your program(s). These tools are meant to inspire you and give you examples of how you could build evaluations for your individual program. We hope these resources will make your journey to recognition easier and help you teach the next generation of osteopathically trained physicians.
