Membership
Regardless of where you are in your professional journey, Academy membership provides the knowledge and inspiration you need to make a real difference in people's lives. From the time you invest in your academic program through your orthotic and prosthetic career, the Academy provides opportunities to continuously grow your expertise. The Academy elevates you throughout your career so that you can realize your limitless potential and create life-changing solutions for those you serve.
Benefits
Membership unlocks access to key resources to help you sharpen your skills, implement best practices, explore new opportunities, and reach your professional development goals.
Stay current on best practices through sound educational opportunities, world-class publications, and O&PiQ, the profession's evidence database.
Stay engaged to realize your full potential by taking advantage of volunteer and leadership opportunities to collaborate with your peers in member groups, working to establish discipline-focused programming, standard-setting publications, and impactful strategies to advance the profession.
Membership means you have a powerful voice within the organization, across the profession, and into your communities.
Membership Categories
The Academy offers membership categories that span each pathway within the orthotic and prosthetic profession and those affiliated with the provision of quality patient care. Browse the Academy's membership categories and select the membership package that's right for you.
Fellow of the Academy
The designation Fellow of the Academy is a signature recognition. The achievement comes as a result of hard work, commitment to personal development, and a dedication to excellence in the profession. This elite status is attained by those with a demonstrated commitment to mastering their profession through sustained educational pursuits and a proven track record of service to their community and the O&P profession.
There are three specific Fellow designations:
- FAAOP(A) - Associate Fellow of the Academy
- FAAOP - Fellow of the Academy
- FAAOP(D) - Fellow with Distinction
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