Membership Information

• Founding Members of the Association
• How Do I Join the AACA?
• Electronic Application Form for Membership
• Need to Change Your Membership Status?

Who Are We?

The AACA was founded to support, promote, and advance anatomically and clinically-based scholarship in research, teaching, and curricular matters within the health science professions. Its annual scientific meeting provides a vital and supportive venue for basic and clinical scientists and educators to disseminate scholarly work of an experimental or descriptive nature in any of the subdisciplines of anatomy or specialities of medicine. Our journal, Clinical Anatomy, is the Official Journal of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists, the British Association of Clinical Anatomists, the Australian and New Zealand Association of Clinical Anatomists, and the Anatomical Society of Southern Africa. It publishes original and review articles of scientific, clinical, and educational interest to anatomists and clinicians. Our Association is proud to have members from over 30 countries worldwide and we continually welcome new members to our community.

• Evidence of interest or practice in clinical anatomy - gross, microscopic, developmental, neuroanatomic; clinical practice or research that can, but not necessarily be restricted to, demonstration through publication.
• Evidence of a teaching record in anatomic and clinical anatomic subject areas.
• Evidence of administrative or other anatomy-related experience in support of anatomical education programs, health care, or safety.

Membership Types:

• Regular (academic faculty, clinician, anatomical services staff/administrator, academic administrator)
• Associate (student, postdoctoral fellow, resident)
• Senior (open to those who have been Regular Members for at least five years and have reached age sixty-five)
• Affiliate (member of BACA, ASSA or ANZACA)

Application Process:

The AACA now only accepts membership applications by electronic format.

Each applicant for Regular membership should understand that the Membership Committee may contact them requesting an electronic copy of their current Curriculum Vitae and that the person listed as their reference may be contacted for comment.

Simply click on the link below and you will go to the electronic membership form. You can print a copy for your records before you click submit:

• Online electronic application form

Questions about membership? Contact our Membership Chair - Dr. Anne Agur at: anne.agur@utoronto.ca

The application process for membership in the AACA is conducted on a continual (rolling) basis. Once the application is received by the Membership Committee Chair, it is forwarded to all members of the Membership Committee. The Committee reviews each application and the Committee Chair then contacts the applicant by email, informing them of their status, as well as annual dues payment options. Membership will become effective on receipt of dues, at which time subscription to the official journal of the Association, Clinical Anatomy (Wiley-Liss), will be entered. New members will have an option when they wish to begin receiving the journal based on the time of year their application is approved. All newly appointed members are ratified by Council at either its Interim (October) or Annual (July) meeting.

The new appllicant membership fee structure for 2010 is:

Regular: $125*
Associate: $30 for electronic journal access; $110 for print journal delivery
Affiliate: (no journal): $40**
Senior: $110 with journal***
Senior: $30 with electronic access to the journal
Senior Limited: (no journal) $0
Honored: NO DUES

*Annual membership dues for the year 2010 in the AACA is $125.00; $110.00 of this amount is for your subscription to Clinical Anatomy.

**An option only for BACA, ASSA or ANZACA members who already subscribe to Clinical Anatomy.

***65 yrs & older and no longer employed full-time.

Change in Membership Status?

If you have changed membership status (ie. associate member now with a faculty appointment; Regular member having retired, etc.), simply contact our Treasurer with this information and he will make the change in the AACA database. Our Treasurer - Dr. Neil Norton, can be reached at nsnorton@creighton.edu

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