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ARCOS: Mission, Vision, GoalsMission:To promote a nationally recognized association of residency and fellowship program administrators in orthopaedic surgery, enabling them to better assist in the graduate medical education of orthopaedic residents and fellows. Vision:To be nationally recognized by program directors and the entire orthopaedic community as an advocacy forum for orthopaedic residency and fellowship program administrators to enhance their knowledge and skills through the continuous exchange of ideas and information. Goals:The current goals of ARCOS include introducing the existence of ARCOS to all orthopaedic residency and fellowship programs. ARCOS aims to achieve 100% participation among all orthopaedic programs at the ARCOS Annual Meeting. The publication of a newsletter and maintenance of our website is essential to the promotion of ARCOS. Historical PerspectiveARCOS was officially founded in February 2003 during the 70th Annual AAOS Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. After almost two years of intense work by the founding members, a committee structure of elected officers and written by-laws was finally developed. The founding members of ARCOS are as follows: Todd W. Godfrey, President Lorenzo Woo, President Elect April Melson, Secretary Gail Driver, Treasurer Cynthia Bastien, Member-at-Large Kathy Flesher, Member-at-Large Ellen Greenberger, Member-at-Large Teri Hill, Member-at-Large Norma Jean Simonsen, Member-at-Large Chris Standish, Member-at-Large In October 2001, a group of approximately 30 Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Coordinators met during a round table session during the 5th Annual Residency Coordinators/Administrators National Center of Evaluation of Residency Programs (NCERP) Workshop. The idea of establishing an Association of Residency Coordinators was initiated by Dr. Fredrick N. Meyer, Chairman of Orthopaedics at the University of South Alabama. The idea was widely accepted by the 30 or so Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Coordinators attending the Round Table discussion. The meeting adjourned with the formation of a steering committee of the following six orthopaedic surgery residency coordinators:
The mission lived on during the 69th Annual AAOS Meeting in February, 2002 whereby Todd Godfrey, Chris Standish and a new comer, Norma Jean Simonsen of Johns Hopkins University met to continue brainstorming on how to get the association off the ground. A mass mailing went out to all the orthopaedic surgery residency programs to spread the word and get coordinators to attend the NCERP meeting in September 2002. In September 2002, with the help of the six steering committee members, Todd Godfrey led a group of 60 Coordinators towards establishing the goal of forming a nationally recognized group of orthopaedic surgery residency program coordinators. A rejuvenated steering committee was formed to begin formalizing the association and met at the 70th Annual AAOS Meeting in February 2003. The new members were as follows:
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