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Alpha Omega Alpha
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (ΑΩΑ) is an honor society in the field of medicine. It has active chapters in 132 LCME-accredited medical schools in the United States and Lebanon. It annually elects over 4,000 new members. A 2021 JAMA article, noted "Alpha Omega Alpha (ΑΩΑ) honor society membership is the hallmark of academic achievement in undergraduate medical education, and ΑΩΑ membership is associated with future success in academic medicine."
In 1902, third-year medical student William Webster Root founded Alpha Omega Alpha while attending the College of Physicians and Surgeons (now the University of Illinois College of Medicine). Alpha Omega Alpha was founded as a coed honor society to recognize scholarly achievement and professional conduct among physicians and medical students. Its founding members were Milton Weston Hall, John Eddy Haskell, George Herbert Howard, Ernest Sisson Moore, William H. Moore, William Webster Root, Benjamin Thomas, Charles Lafayette Williams, and Wenzel Matthias Wochos.
The founders held the first organizational meeting on August 2, 1902. Root then drafted a constitution and developed the society's motto. At a meeting at the Bismarck Hotel in Chicago on September 27, 1902, 28 medical students met to ratify the constitution, adopt the society's motto, and to be inducted as Alpha Omega Alpha's first members. A
Root pitched his idea to nearby schools, and Beta was established at University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine in 1902, followed by Gamma at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in 1903. Alpha Omega Alpha was incorporated in the State of Illinois in 1903. It inducted its first female member in 1906. By 1912, there were seventeen chapters. As more medical schools became interested, the national organization became more selective in the standards a school needed to meet to be eligible.
In 1930, the society had 37 active chapters and an alumni association. In 1962, that had grown to 85 active chapters and 32,340 total initiates.
Alpha Omega Alpha is a former member of the Association of College Honor Societies. The society's papers were donated to the United States National Library of Medicine in 1973 by John Z. Bowers and in 2000 by Gladys Brill Brampton. Its national headquarters is in Aurora, Colorado.
Alpha Omega Alpha's motto is "To be worthy to serve the suffering". The society's badge is a gold key, shaped like the mannbrium sterni, with the Greek letters ΑΩΑ and the founding date of 1902.
Its honor cord is Kelly green and gold, with white strands. Green represents medicine, gold is for science, and white represents the humanities. Alpha Omega Alpha first published its medical humanities journal, The Pharos, in January 1938; it was named after the Pharos lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
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Alpha Omega Alpha
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (ΑΩΑ) is an honor society in the field of medicine. It has active chapters in 132 LCME-accredited medical schools in the United States and Lebanon. It annually elects over 4,000 new members. A 2021 JAMA article, noted "Alpha Omega Alpha (ΑΩΑ) honor society membership is the hallmark of academic achievement in undergraduate medical education, and ΑΩΑ membership is associated with future success in academic medicine."
In 1902, third-year medical student William Webster Root founded Alpha Omega Alpha while attending the College of Physicians and Surgeons (now the University of Illinois College of Medicine). Alpha Omega Alpha was founded as a coed honor society to recognize scholarly achievement and professional conduct among physicians and medical students. Its founding members were Milton Weston Hall, John Eddy Haskell, George Herbert Howard, Ernest Sisson Moore, William H. Moore, William Webster Root, Benjamin Thomas, Charles Lafayette Williams, and Wenzel Matthias Wochos.
The founders held the first organizational meeting on August 2, 1902. Root then drafted a constitution and developed the society's motto. At a meeting at the Bismarck Hotel in Chicago on September 27, 1902, 28 medical students met to ratify the constitution, adopt the society's motto, and to be inducted as Alpha Omega Alpha's first members. A
Root pitched his idea to nearby schools, and Beta was established at University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine in 1902, followed by Gamma at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in 1903. Alpha Omega Alpha was incorporated in the State of Illinois in 1903. It inducted its first female member in 1906. By 1912, there were seventeen chapters. As more medical schools became interested, the national organization became more selective in the standards a school needed to meet to be eligible.
In 1930, the society had 37 active chapters and an alumni association. In 1962, that had grown to 85 active chapters and 32,340 total initiates.
Alpha Omega Alpha is a former member of the Association of College Honor Societies. The society's papers were donated to the United States National Library of Medicine in 1973 by John Z. Bowers and in 2000 by Gladys Brill Brampton. Its national headquarters is in Aurora, Colorado.
Alpha Omega Alpha's motto is "To be worthy to serve the suffering". The society's badge is a gold key, shaped like the mannbrium sterni, with the Greek letters ΑΩΑ and the founding date of 1902.
Its honor cord is Kelly green and gold, with white strands. Green represents medicine, gold is for science, and white represents the humanities. Alpha Omega Alpha first published its medical humanities journal, The Pharos, in January 1938; it was named after the Pharos lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.