To: AAAOM First Year Practitioners

From: Deborah Lincoln RN, MSN, RAc, NCCAOM, AAAOM President
Assisted by: Lynn Eder, AAAOM Staff Editorial Coordinator

Subject: Survey: Transitioning From Student to Practitioner

As the newly elected president of the AAAOM, I feel it is important to understand the pulse of the profession from diverse perspectives. Not only can we learn from each other, but in sharing we foster a historical understanding of our profession that allows us to refer back in the future and draw upon our success as well as our challenges. Equally, as we build knowledge and awareness, this provides the insight needed for AAAOM to develop tools and focused support in the context of expressed, present needs.

As a newly licensed practitioner, you are now facing not only the challenges posed by our current economy, but the start-up of your professional career and/or private practice. AAAOM would like to know how you transitioned from your student status to become an AOM practitioner. We are interested in finding what people, processes, or tools helped you initiate your practice, whether as a sole proprietor, as an employee in a private practice, a hospital setting or public health clinic, or perhaps by some other unique form of service you would like to share.

We will collect the replies and publish the results of this survey in the Qi-Unity Report. Your name will be withheld from the collaborative document generated, unless you specifically request your contact information be provided such that the door to ongoing discussion is opened. Additionally you will be given the option not to have your responses shared with your colleagues.

Please visit this online form to express your interests.