There are benefits which AAO members enjoy as their professional society represents their interests in a variety of ways. While these may not be readily quantified in dollar values, they are real benefits to AAO members:
- Advocacy for osteopathic manipulative medicine within the osteopathic and allopathic professions as well as before health care reformers and policy makers, including appropriate reimbursement for OMM services.
- Development of osteopathic skills along with colleagues who are the most sought after teachers of osteopathic manipulative medicine and palpatory diagnosis in the world.
- Promotion of research on the efficacy of osteopathic manipulative medicine.
- Maintenance of an earned Fellowship program to recognize excellence in the practice of osteopathic manipulative medicine.
- Service for patients seeking a list of OMM practitioners in their area.
- Assuring the future of the profession by support of chapters of the Undergraduate American Academy of Osteopathy on the campuses of all college of osteopathic medicine.
- Access to the American Osteopathic Board of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine, the only certifying board in manual medicine in the medical world today.
Membership in the American Academy of Osteopathy requires membership in the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and either one of the AOA's divisional societies or a national osteopathic association recognized by the AOA.
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