Friday, March 8, 2019

LUCOM student-doctor elected to national student council position on AOCPMR

Tahsin Choudhury, Class of 2020, has been elected Public Relations Committee Co-Chair for the American Osteopathic College of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AOCPMR)Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM) osteopathic medical student Tahsin Choudhury, Class of 2020, has been elected to Student Council Public Relations Committee Co-Chair for the American Osteopathic College of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AOCPMR).

The AOCPMR is an association dedicated to providing leadership for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) and provide a home to Osteopathic physicians as well as strengthen the profession. The Public Relations Committee works to promote the awareness of the AOCPMR student council and the college as a whole. The committee is responsible for organizing networking events at national conferences such as the Osteopathic Medical Education (OMED) conference, the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPMR) conference, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) conference, as well as, mid-year meetings.

“A major role of the public relations committee is to help establish communication between the different committees of the student council,” said Choudhury. “As [student council] public relations co-chair, I will be responsible for the visibility and strategic representation of the AOCPMR council and its impact on the way students, residencies and professionals understand the osteopathic world and how it impacts physiatry.”

The Public Relations Committee that Choudhury will be serving on also helps reach out to residency directors to extend invitations to national meetings, while also educating them on how Osteopathic physicians are not only a natural fit for the field of physiatry, but how they offer unique insight and application in the field.

“Physiatry is a field that is geared towards optimizing function and having a holistic approach to improve function and subsequently, the lives of patients,” he added. “Osteopathic physicians should look for opportunities for leadership in the fields they are interested in because there are so many misconceptions about DOs that go uncorrected.”

The mission of AOCPMR is to spread the Osteopathic message as it relates to PM&R and Choudhury is committed, through his position, to informing the medical world as to why Osteopathic physicians would make exceptional physiatrists. “Through exposure, understanding and communication the medical world will see more examples of DO physiatrists making an impact on the profession, I believe it is important that I use my role as PR Co-Chair to inform others about how osteopathic medicine is a natural fit for physiatry,” Choudhury said.