News from ACOI

Each May, we pause to honor the extraordinary physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals who dedicate their lives to the field of critical care.

Read the latest from ACOI members who have received awards, promotions, and other recognitions.

Often, I talk about the importance of documentation.  For many, the creation of this documentation increasingly relies on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to generate the patient note.  While I am old school and prefer the handwritten note, the use of AI is here to stay.

ACOI Endorses New Prior Authorization Bill: ACOI has put its support behind a newly introduced bipartisan bill that would reform the practice of prior authorization within Medicare and among Medicare Advantage (MA) and prescription drug plans.

The ACOI has updated its Advocacy Agenda, which will guide all advocacy legislative and regulatory efforts over the next two years. The new agenda will reflect the results of an ACOI member survey conducted earlier this year, as well as the input of the ACOI Government Affairs Committee.

Student Doctor Obi was nominated because he embodies the core values of osteopathic medicine through his commitment to holistic patient care, lifelong learning, and a passion for internal medicine. His dedication to treating the whole person—mind, body, and spirit—is evident in both his academic pursuits and patient interactions.

Share your research with the ACOI community through the Poster Contests and Faculty Poster Abstracts. Highlight new discoveries, illuminating case studies, or fascinating knowledge from the past year that serves and inspires others.

Demonstrate your leadership and present your work at ACOI 2025! We are now seeking session proposals for the Annual Convention. Do you have inspiring and innovative insights from this past year? Submit your work and share your findings with your colleagues at ACOI 2025.

The ACOI 2025 Spring Meetings are now available on-demand, offering ACOI members a virtual event rich with innovative courses and highly relevant lectures. Across two courses – the Internal Medicine Comprehensive Update and the Clinical Challenges in Hospital Medicine – the Spring Meetings offered a knowledge refresh that covered a diverse range of osteopathic internal medicine and subspecialty topics.

In medicine, it is easy to get caught up in the day-to-day routine and lose sight of our higher purposes. So many of us got into medicine, our calling, in order to help people. But who helps us when we lose our way? The answer lies in rediscovering how the mind, body, and spirit are interconnected. If one of these areas becomes dysregulated, it can affect the other two. If we can devote time to healing one of these areas, it can likewise affect the other two and allow us to find ourselves and our true passions again.

ACOI active members who are interested in serving on the Board of Directors are invited to complete the nomination form.

Nominations are still open for the ACOI Fellowship, Master Fellowship, Memorial Awards, and Annual Awards. If you have been considering showing your support for a fellow member, or applying to the Conclave of Fellows, now is the time! The deadline for all nominations is May 31, 2025.