Proposed Amendments to the AOA Constitution
The following proposed amendments to the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) Constitution were presented for First Reading at the July 2021 annual meeting of the House of Delegates and will be presented for action at the 2022 Annual Meeting, which will occur on July 15–17, 2022. The Chief Executive Officer of the American Osteopathic Association has arranged for their posting on the AOA’s website, publication in the on-line edition of the Journal of Osteopathic Medicine (f/k/a The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association) and distribution to the specialty and divisional societies that will be eligible to send representatives to the AOA’s House of Delegates.
All amendments require a two-thirds vote by the House of Delegates for approval.
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Article VI – House of Delegates, Section 1 – Composition, Part B
B. Student Council Representation in Divisional Societies
Divisional societies shall be awarded one additional delegate as a student council representative for each college of osteopathic medicine accredited by this Association and located in the state represented by that divisional society, such student delegate to be elected according to the Bylaws of the American Osteopathic Association.
Article VIII – Board of Trustees and Executive Committee, Section 1 – Board of Trustees, Part C
C. One new physician in practice member elected by the House of Delegates to serve for one year. Candidates for the new physician in practice position shall be (osteopathic physicians who have completed their postdoctoral training within the past five years) or received the DO degree within the previous ten years shall be nominated by the council of new physicians in practice SHALL BE NOMINATED BY THE BUREAU OF EMERGING LEADERS. CANDIDATES MUST BE MEMBERS IN GOOD STANDING OF THE AOA.
Article IX – Amendments
This Constitution may be amended by the House of Delegates at any annual meeting by a two-thirds vote of the total number of delegates accredited for voting, provided that such amendments shall have been presented to the House and filed with the Chief Executive Officer at a previous annual meeting, who shall cause them to be distributed by US mail or electronic mail to each divisional and specialty society entitled to and voting representatives to the House of Delegates, posted on the AOA’s website, and published in the on-line edition of the Journal of OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE
the American Osteopathic Association
not less than two months nor more than four months prior to the meeting at which they are to be acted upon.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- General
- Original Article
- Assessing the United States’ most frequently asked questions about osteopathic medicine, osteopathic education, and osteopathic manipulative treatment
- Medical Education
- Brief Report
- Parental leave in medical school: supporting students as parents
- Musculoskeletal Medicine and Pain
- Clinical Practice
- Osteopathic approach to sacroiliac joint pain in pregnant patients
- Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine (OMT)
- Original Article
- Effects of osteopathic manipulative treatment vs. osteopathic cranial manipulative medicine on Parkinsonian gait
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Review Article
- Upgrade rate of percutaneously diagnosed pure flat epithelial atypia: systematic review and meta-analysis of 1,924 lesions
- Public Health and Primary Care
- Brief Report
- Primary care providers’ experiences treating low back pain
- Clinical Image
- Os trigonum identified after trauma to heel
- Letter to the Editor
- Cost of medical student virtual conference registration in ophthalmology and urology during the COVID-19 pandemic
- AOA Communications
- Proposed Amendments to the AOA Constitution
