American Osteopathic Association

Department of government relations:expenses incurred with gathering and documenting information for aoa on a national and state level and acting as the organization's liaison in washington, d.c. All expenses of the washington, d.c. Satellite office are included, as well as all expenses required to promote the interests of and access to osteopathic medicine as well as the 168,000 osteopathic physicians (do) and osteopathic medical students in the united states.

Publications:the aoa publishes 1 peer-reviewed academic medical journal: journal of osteopathic medicine. This online-only publication was established in 1901 and is the premier scholarly, peer-reviewed publication of the osteopathic medical profession. It provides continuing medical education (cme) to osteopathic physicians (do) and other allied healthcare practitioners, and it complements the education of osteopathic medical students. Jom now offers its content in an open access model, so all articles are freely available to the public, and more than 145,000 readers receive the electronic tables of contents for jom. In addition, the aoa produces an online news publication, the do, that is received by over 125,000 osteopathic physicians and medical students.

Membership services:the department of membership is responsible for developing and executing initiatives that provide significant financial and volunteer resources to support the aoa's mission by continuously retaining and recruiting members. Membership projects build awareness of overall aoa programs that ultimately lead to improved quality of patient care, with services such as but not limited to, the tracking of physician cme and board certification requirements, practice management programs for young physicians, leadership development opportunities, clinical practice programs and guides, support for osteopathic medicine research, and information for students, interns and residents.