Frequently Asked Questions

I just got a call from a company called Harris Connect on behalf of AΩA. They want my personal information. Does AΩA sponsor this?

Yes, AΩA has contracted with Harris Connect to produce a membership directory this year. See the information about it here.

How do I pay dues or make a contribution?

First find your member number by searching for your last name in the Locate a Member box at the left (or you may call us at 650 329-0291 or e-mail us using the link at bottom left). Then go to: Pay Dues or Make a Contribution page.

I just paid my dues, but I'm still listed as Inactive when I search for my name in Locate a Member. What happened?

Information on Active/Inactive status is not automatically updated. The information must be uploaded manually every few days. We are working on improvements to the system.

How do I find the chapter closest to me? Who should I contact there to participate in chapter activities?

Click on the Chapters tab above, or here to find the chapter nearest you. Click on the name of the councilor to send an e-mail to request information.

What are the requirements for starting a new chapter?

As noted in the Constitution, Article IX, New Chapters:

A chapter may be chartered at a College or School of Medicine that meets the Society's requirements and has received LCME accreditation. An application signed by the Dean and by at least six members of the Faculty of Medicine who are members of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society shall be sent to the President along with full information about the school's financial status, admission criteria, curriculum, faculty, and scholarship aid. The President will refer the application to the Committee on New Chapters for evaluation of the application and to make a site visit to the school. Upon receipt of a favorable report from the Committee on New Chapters, the President shall submit the application and recommendation to the full Board of Directors. If the application is approved by the Board of Directors, the proposed charter shall be granted, and the school may appoint a councilor and nominate junior and senior members after the date of the granting of the charter. Nominations for student membership will be made by the Councilor and the six members signing the application in collaboration with the office of the Dean.

Once a medical school has provisional LCME accreditation, it may begin the process of applying for an AΩA charter, which will be granted once LCME full accreditation is complete.

What does my membership number mean?

Your AΩA membership number is a code that indicates where you were elected, what you were when you were elected, and the year in which you were elected, as in the example below.

Member type:
R = Elected as a student
G = Elected as a resident
A = Elected as alumnus/alumnae
F = Elected as faculty
H = Elected as honorary member
C = Elected as a charter member of a new chapter

Chapter numbers are listed below. Asterisks indicate AΩA Associations, which may elect residents, faculty, and alumni, but not students. (Stanford University's chapter was inactivated in the 1970s and became an association in 2002.)

Number	Chapter	Year of Charter	School Name
001	Alpha Illinois	1902	University of Illinois College of Medicine
002	Beta Illinois	1902	University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences Pritzker School of Medicine
003	Gamma Illinois	1903	Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine
004	Alpha Ohio	1903	Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
005	Alpha Pennsylvania	1903	Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University
006	Beta Pennsylvania	1903	University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
007	Alpha Missouri	1905	Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
008	Alpha Massachusetts	1906	Harvard Medical School
009	Alpha California	1906	University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
010	Alpha Maryland	1906	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
011	Alpha Ontario	1906	University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
012	Alpha New York	1907	Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
013	Alpha Michigan	1907	University of Michigan Medical School
014	Alpha Minnesota	1908	University of Minnesota Medical School
015	Beta New York	1910	Weill Cornell Medical College
016	Gamma New York	1911	State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, College of Medicine
017	Alpha Quebec	1911	McGill University Faculty of Medicine
018	Alpha Nebraska	1914	University of Nebraska College of Medicine
019	Alpha Louisiana	1914	Tulane University School of Medicine
020	Beta Ohio	1916	University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
021	Gamma Pennsylvania	1916	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
022	Alpha Indiana	1916	Indiana University School of Medicine
023	Alpha Virginia	1919	University of Virginia School of Medicine
024	Alpha Iowa	1920	University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
025	Alpha Texas	1920	University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
026	Alpha Connecticut	1920	Yale University School of Medicine
027	Alpha Tennessee	1923	Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
028	Delta New York	1923	New York University School of Medicine
029	Alpha Oregon	1923	Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine
030	Beta Missouri	1924	Saint Louis University School of Medicine
031	Epsilon New York	1924	University at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York
032	Alpha Kentucky	1926	University of Louisville School of Medicine
033	Alpha Colorado	1926	University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
034	Alpha Wisconsin	1926	University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
035	Alpha Georgia	1926	Georgia Health Sciences University Medical College of Georgia
036*	Beta California	1929	Stanford University School of Medicine
037	Zeta New York	1929	University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
038	Alpha Kansas	1931	University of Kansas School of Medicine
039	Alpha North Carolina	1931	Duke University School of Medicine
040	Gamma Ohio	1933	The Ohio State University College of Medicine
041	Delta-Zeta Pennsylvania	1934	Drexel University College of Medicine
042	Beta Georgia	1939	Emory University School of Medicine
043	Beta Massachusetts	1940	Tufts University School of Medicine
044	Beta Virginia	1940	Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
045	Beta Tennessee	1941	University of Tennessee Health Science Center, College of Medicine
046	Beta Ontario	1942	University of Western Ontario Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
047	Beta Michigan	1942	Wayne State University School of Medicine
048	Gamma Massachusetts	1948	Boston University School of Medicine
049	Eta New York	1948	State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine
050	Beta North Carolina	1949	Wake Forest University Health Sciences School of Medicine
051	Beta Wisconsin	1949	Medical College of Wisconsin
052	Beta Louisiana	1949	Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine at New Orleans
053	Alpha Utah	1949	University of Utah School of Medicine
054	Gamma California	1949	Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
055	Beta Texas	1949	Baylor College of Medicine
056	Beta Maryland	1949	University of Maryland School of Medicine
057	Theta New York	1949	Albany Medical College
058	Alpha Alabama	1950	University of Alabama School of Medicine
059	Alpha Washington	1950	University of Washington School of Medicine
060	Gamma Texas	1950	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Southwestern Medical School
061	Epsilon Pennsylvania	1950	Temple University School of Medicine
062	Zeta Pennsylvania	1954	Allegheny University, now Drexel, chapter 41
063	Alpha Vermont	1953	University of Vermont College of Medicine
064	Alpha South Carolina	1953	Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine
065	Alpha Oklahoma	1953	University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
066	Gamma North Carolina	1954	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
067	Alpha District of Columbia	1954	The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
068	Beta District of Columbia	1954	Georgetown University School of Medicine
069	Alpha British Columbia	1954	University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine
070	Gamma District of Columbia	1955	Howard University College of Medicine
071	Alpha Arkansas	1955	University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine
072	Delta California	1956	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
073	Alpha Puerto Rico	1956	University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine
074	Epsilon California	1956	Loma Linda University School of Medicine
075	Beta Nebraska	1957	Creighton University School of Medicine
076	Iota New York	1957	New York Medical College
077	Alpha Mississippi	1957	University of Mississippi School of Medicine
078	Gamma Tennessee	1957	Meharry Medical College School of Medicine
079	Gamma Missouri	1957	University of Missouri—Columbia School of Medicine
080	Alpha Lebanon	1958	American University of Beirut School of Medicine
081	Alpha Nova Scotia	1958	Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine
082	Alpha Alberta	1958	University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
083	Alpha Florida	1959	University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
084	Kappa New York	1959	Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
085	Beta Florida	1960	University of Florida College of Medicine
086	Alpha West Virginia	1962	West Virginia University School of Medicine
087	Beta Kentucky	1964	University of Kentucky College of Medicine
088	Delta Illinois	1965	Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science/Chicago Medical School
089	Epsilon Illinois	1968	Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
090	Alpha New Mexico	1968	University of New Mexico School of Medicine
091	Lambda New York	1970	Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University
092	Zeta California	1971	University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
093	Alpha Arizona	1971	University of Arizona College of Medicine
094	Gamma Ontario	1971	University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine
095	Eta California	1972	University of California, Davis, School of Medicine
096	Zeta Illinois	1973	Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center
097	Gamma Louisiana	1973	Louisiana State University School of Medicine at Shreveport
098	Alpha New Hampshire	1973	Dartmouth Medical School
099	Delta Ohio	1974	The University of Toledo, College of Medicine
100	Delta Texas	1975	University of Texas Medical School at Houston
101	Epsilon Texas	1975	University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Medicine
102	Alpha New Jersey	1975	University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
103	Gamma Florida	1976	University of South Florida College of Medicine
104	Beta Alabama	1977	University of South Alabama College of Medicine
105	Beta New Jersey	1977	UMDNJ—New Jersey Medical School
106	Alpha North Dakota	1978	University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences
107	Alpha South Dakota	1978	Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota
108	Alpha Hawaii	1978	University of Hawaii at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine
109	Epsilon Ohio	1981	Wright State University Boonschoft School of Medicine
110	Gamma Maryland	1982	Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine
111	Zeta Texas	1982	Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
112	Zeta Ohio	1983	Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy
113	Beta South Carolina	1983	University of South Carolina School of Medicine
114	Eta Pennsylvania	1983	Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
115	Delta Tennessee	1985	East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine
116	Delta Missouri	1985	University of Missouri—Kansas City School of Medicine
117	Eta Texas	1985	Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine
118	Alpha Nevada	1985	University of Nevada School of Medicine
119	Eta Illinois	1985	Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
120	Mu New York	1985	Stony Brook University School of Medicine
121	Gamma Virginia	1987	Eastern Virginia Medical School
122	Gamma Michigan	1987	Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
123	Beta West Virginia	1988	Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine
124	Beta Oklahoma	1988	Oral Roberts University School of Medicine
125	Gamma Georgia	1989	Morehouse School of Medicine
126	Delta North Carolina	1990	The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University
127	Beta Puerto Rico	1990	Ponce School of Medicine
128	Delta Georgia	1991	Mercer University School of Medicine
129	Gamma Puerto Rico	1992	Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine
130	Delta Massachusetts	1996	University of Massachusetts Medical School
131	Alpha Rhode Island	1999	The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
132*	Beta Minnesota	2004	Mayo Medical School
133	Delta Florida	2005	Florida State University College of Medicine