SUBJECT: Academy Announces National O&P Awareness Week
Tom Gorski, CAE
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SUBJECT: Academy Announces National O&P Awareness Week
Creator:
Tom Gorski, CAE
Date:
1/28/2003
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At the Annual Meeting in San Diego March 19-22, Academy President Frank H. Bostock, MBA, CO, FAAOP will announce the development of a National O&P Awareness Week to begin in 2004.
Materials for the awareness week will include a poster, career brochures, instructions on how practitioners can participate in the week, sample activities, and tips on involving students from local high schools. A website, www.opcareers.org < <URL Redacted>>, which contains support information such as career information, what it takes to be a practitioner, O&P schools and certificate programs, scholarship information, and contacts with practitioners willing to talk to students will have additional details about the week as they develop.
As a demonstration project the Academy has invited high school students from the San Diego area to visit the Academy's Annual Meeting. They will hear a short presentation on the O&P profession, be paired with students from O&P programs at California State University Dominguez Hills and Rancho Los Amigos, and tour the exhibit hall.
Much of the direction for a national recruitment campaign comes from the Joint Committee on O&P Awareness chaired by Academy Director Wendy Beattie, CPO, FAAOP. The committee's activities are part of the Academy's Project Quantum Leap initiative, a series of activities for the advancement of the patient, practitioner, and the O&P profession. In addition to initiatives such as a national awareness campaign to encourage students to consider O&P as a career choice. Project Quantum Leap also includes helping the remaining O&P schools obtain government funding, documenting clinical standards of practice via consensus conferences, and seeking funding of applied research in O&P.
Proceeds from the sale of the limited edition poster will benefit Project Quantum Leap.
Materials for the awareness week will include a poster, career brochures, instructions on how practitioners can participate in the week, sample activities, and tips on involving students from local high schools. A website, www.opcareers.org < <URL Redacted>>, which contains support information such as career information, what it takes to be a practitioner, O&P schools and certificate programs, scholarship information, and contacts with practitioners willing to talk to students will have additional details about the week as they develop.
As a demonstration project the Academy has invited high school students from the San Diego area to visit the Academy's Annual Meeting. They will hear a short presentation on the O&P profession, be paired with students from O&P programs at California State University Dominguez Hills and Rancho Los Amigos, and tour the exhibit hall.
Much of the direction for a national recruitment campaign comes from the Joint Committee on O&P Awareness chaired by Academy Director Wendy Beattie, CPO, FAAOP. The committee's activities are part of the Academy's Project Quantum Leap initiative, a series of activities for the advancement of the patient, practitioner, and the O&P profession. In addition to initiatives such as a national awareness campaign to encourage students to consider O&P as a career choice. Project Quantum Leap also includes helping the remaining O&P schools obtain government funding, documenting clinical standards of practice via consensus conferences, and seeking funding of applied research in O&P.
Proceeds from the sale of the limited edition poster will benefit Project Quantum Leap.
Citation
Tom Gorski, CAE, “SUBJECT: Academy Announces National O&P Awareness Week,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 2, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/220508.
