ACOFP Leadership:
Meet the 2024-2025 National Student Executive Board
The National Student Executive Board (NSEB) is composed of the president, vice president, secretary, parliamentarian, and chapter outreach director. The tenure for each role is one year. Board members also act as liaisons to student chapters, responsible for examining their reports, allocating points, and orchestrating programming.
Selection criteria and processes for these roles are outlined and defined in the Constitution and Bylaws.
Members of the National Student Executive Board
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Become a Student Leader:
The Election Process
Elections are held in the spring of each year, with applications opening over the summer for the upcoming year.
National Student Executive Board Objectives and Responsibilities
Board Mission
Act as a voice for the Student Association of the ACOFP and work with the ACOFP student chapters at the Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine to promote family medicine and help develop future leaders of ACOFP and the profession of osteopathic family medicine.
Board Charges
The NSEB plans programming, workshops, and activities for students at the Annual Convention and develops the Student Chapter Leadership Training program. They promote membership, family medicine, and resources to chapters via ACOFP channels. Additionally, they identify and assist in starting new student chapters, develop strategies to keep students involved in national and local chapter activities and collaborate with student committees. They produce a blog series and a podcast series for the DO.fm Student Podcast Channel. The NSEB also submits resolutions on important student issues and ensures student participation at the Congress of Delegates. Collaborating with the Resident Council to provide information on family medicine and residency is part of their duties. Finally, they strategize and execute plans to increase student attendance at the ACOFP annual conference.
Board Responsibilities
- Oversee the performance of all Student Association of the ACOFP chapter officers and committees.
- Present unresolved issues within the Student Association of the ACOFP to the Board of Governors of the ACOFP.
- Consider recommendations from the local Student Association of the ACOFP chapters.
- Provide a quarterly summary of activities to the Board of Governors of the ACOFP, prepared by the Secretary and approved by the National Student Executive Board.
- Coordinate quarterly activity and communication with the ACOFP Resident Council.
- May serve as a student representative on a national ACOFP committee, as appointed by the President of ACOFP.