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Why should I join AO?
A.O. provides an atmosphere for sharing common interests and developing
life-long friendships
A.O. through the student and alumni chapter can assist and facilitate
your adjustment to the new scholastic situation
A.O. offers a Mentorship Program, which enables student members to
interact with alumni on a professional as well as social basis
A.O. offers the opportunity to attend its International Convention
where you meet other schools, meet alumni from all parts of the
continent and overseas and participate with them on an equal basis –
creates the opportunity to make contacts concerning future
post-graduate training, employment or establishment of a personal
practice
A.O. has compiled a Post-Graduate and Residency Guide to assist you in
selecting a program and advise you with your application
A.O. because of its size, distribution, history and caliber of members,
can create considerable influence in education, the profession and many
communities
A.O. has established a Foundation, second only to the A.D.A., to
provide support to dental education in your school as well as
throughout the world, to further dental research, promote dental health
and charitable endeavors
A.O. is the only dental fraternity in which the student, following
graduation, automatically enters the alumni ranks without any
re-evaluation
A.O. appoints students on many of its International Committees and
expects them to participate actively
A.O. through the Foundation, maintains an emergency loan fund for
sophomore, junior and senior students
A.O. is actively concerned with community involvement, sponsoring both
dental and general activities on the local and international levels
A.O. promotes active contact with all of its members serving in the
Armed Forces
A.O. offers substantial savings to its members in purchasing group
accident and health, hospital and life insurance programs
A.O. is the only dental fraternity that provides an Externship Program
for junior students entering their senior year where they have the
opportunity to observe some of the finest clinicians for a minimum of
two weeks. Externships have been sponsored in Toronto, Washington
DC, Boston, New York, Miami, Atlanta, St. Louis, Albuquerque, Chicago,
Detroit, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem
A.O. provides a bulk purchase program for students
A.O. provides an Associateship Program, which attempts to match new
graduates with dentists who are seeking associates