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Membership in the AOCD is more than just a title. We provide a combination of assistance, education and accreditation. Members are encouraged to take full advantage of these benefits.
Members Receive the Following Benefits:
- Provides organized promotion of the profession of dermatology.
- Provides approximately 50 hours of approved continuing medical education in dermatology each year.
- Provides timely information through the AOCD Newsletter and the Annual Membership Directory.
- Provides practice management information.
- Provides for membership input through the annual membership business meeting.
- Necessary to hold office in AOCD or AOBD.
- Necessary for professorship at AOA teaching institutions.
- Necessary to serve as chairman of Department of Dermatology in AOA approved hospitals.
- In states that require board eligibility status before listing oneself as a dermatologist, it is necessary to complete all certification requirements of the AOCD and AOBD.
- Extremely beneficial in litigation cases.
- Provides a 10% discounted surgical equipment on
purchases greater than $500 from Tiemann & Bernsco.
- Entitled to protective due process such as:
- Right of appeal (i.e., dispute over licensure, malpractice cases, censure of local medical societies, expert testimony of standards of practice, etc.)
- No arbitrary loss of certification of membership standing. (This is possible with non-osteopathic certification.)
- Assistance with obtaining hospital privileges and medical liability insurance.
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