AAOS’ 2024-2028 Strategic Plan will help us shape changes that impact health and our profession and equip AAOS and its members for continued success. Here is more information on what the plan means for our members.
Goal 1: MEMBERS
- AAOS is your professional home across your career
- Advocacy in direct support of your practice, including medical liability, reimbursement, and physician-owned hospitals
- Wide breadth of personalized education and quality products
- Strong, diverse membership with pathways from med student through residency and early career to retirement
- More networking and career opportunities through tools like the ACCELERATE career exploration platform
Goal 2: PATIENTS
- Advocacy to reduce your burden and increase access for patients through prior authorization, physician-led hospitals, and telehealth
- Higher quality in the profession through the AAOS Registries Program and products like Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) and the Biologics Dashboard
- Direct engagement with patients for advocacy and education – they are at the center of everything members do
- Improving health and health equity for your patients
- Support members around value-based care, as well as new payment and care-delivery models
Goal 3: CULTURE
- Bi-directional communication between AAOS and our members through the member app, online, and in person
- Modernized governance that allows AAOS leadership to be agile in responding to opportunities
- Streamlined bylaws that enable a well-informed, high-performing Board and responsive and efficient volunteers
- Broad, inclusive pathways to volunteer leadership through programs like the AAOS Leadership Institute
- Strategic, data-driven approach to assessing the future and evolving AAOS offerings to support you and your patients
Goal 4: MSK COMMUNITY
- Partnerships inside and outside of orthopaedics to bring you the best education and powerful advocacy
- Partnerships with specialty, state, and international societies to ensure powerful clinical education and advocacy, including the OrthoPAC
- Collaboration with clinicians and organizations to raise the level of MSK care for patients
- Partnerships with PCPs, cardiology, industry partners, and more to innovate in MSK care beyond your office or operating room
- Focus across care touchpoints to support you and your patients through their care journey
- AAOS convenes stakeholders and provides leadership to improve orthopaedics and patient health