VCOM - Virginia 2018 Yearbook

Tori Tschantz, President; Nathan Elsner, Vice President; Kelsey Hodges, Secretary; Jasmine Jones, Treasurer; Rosemary Mattaino, National Chair of American Medical Women’s Association

ACOFP American College of Family Physicians - Family Medicine

T he American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) gives its members the skills and information they need to succeed as osteopathic family physicians. The group also strives to provide healthcare and information to underserved patients in the local community. • Five ACOFP members volunteered with Habitat for Humanity on September 16, 2017 to help begin construction on a home for a local family. This was part of an ongoing effort from ACOFP to help Habitat for Humanity build and maintain homes for community members in need. • On September 17, 2017 ACOFP partnered with CMDA and Radford Seventh-Day Adventist Church to put on a community health fair at Bisset Park in Radford, Virginia. Education and screenings such as BMI, BP and other vital signs, glucose testing, and spirometry stations were

set up for community members to move through. • Joy Elliott, DO, the program director of Riverside Family Medicine Residency, and her residents, joined ACOFP for a hands- on workshop focusing on some practical OMT techniques for the sixteen students in attendance. • ACOFP organized a health fair to help a medically underserved community in Rocky Mount, Virginia. Stations offered included BMI, BP, and glucose screenings, physical activity and nutrition education, OMT, free flu shots offered by community nurses, community resources, and consultations with VCOM doctors. Working in conjunction with VCOM’s SAAO chapter,

there were eight tables offering OMT, as well as educating the community on osteopathic philosophy.

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