VCOM - Auburn 2018 Yearbook

Tiler Williams, President; Imani McCarter, Vice President; Kelsey Herrera, Secretary; James Healy, Treasurer; Kayla Martin, Geriatrics Chair; Johnny Stackhouse, DO, Faculty Advisor ACOFP American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians

T he VCOM-Auburn Chapter of the American College of Family Physicians (ACOFP) has fostered the importance of primary care since its inception on campus in 2015. The club has achieved this through various events including Primary Care Week activities, visits to a local Auburn Nursing Home and assistance in high school sports physicals. Each opportunity is designed to be educational, fun and

common clinical scenarios they experience and how it relates to primary care. The goal is to provide club members and students alike a better understanding of primary care and its function in the medical world! Being an active member of the community is also an important part of becoming a physician. ACOFP encourages members to give back to the community by offering many volunteer opportunities throughout the academic year. Students are able to volunteer at the Oak

to allow the practice of skills that will be beneficial in school and in practice! Each year in October, ACOFP members host Primary Care Week. Each day, a new physician,

Park nursing home in coordination with VCOM-Auburn’s Geriatrics discipline chair. Every May, members are able to assist physicians with sports physicals at a local Alabama high school. This allows members to step out of the classroom to see the patients they will one day serve! Through the commitment of the

from pediatrics and sports medicine to geriatrics, discusses the aspects of their profession,

organization’s members and the diligence of its board members, the ACOFP club will continue to grow and spread awareness for the ever-growing demand of primary care physicians.

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