The TUCSON OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL FOUNDATION'S mission is:
- Enhancing medical education
- Achievement of excellence, innovation, and caring in advancing community healthcare issues
- Sustainable support of projects, which impact the lives of many today and in the future
Established in 1986, the Tucson Osteopathic Medical Foundation (TOMF) was created from the sale of the non-profit Tucson General Hospital to a for-profit corporation. Considered a conversion foundation, today TOMF has an endowment of over $10 million. As an independent, private-operating, non-profit organization, the Foundation utilizes an endowment to provide programs and charitable services.
Medical Education
Since 1991 the Foundation's annual Southwestern Conference on Medicine®, currently a hybrid continuing medical education (CME) event, attracts hundreds of osteopathic physicians from across the United States.
CME for osteopathic physicians (DOs) and allopathic physicians (MDs) is not only required in order to maintain their licensure, but essential in providing excellence of patient care and improving the health and well-being of the community.
The Foundation is accredited by the AOA to provide CME credit for DOs and partners with the Cleveland Clinic and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) to offer opportunities for DOs, MDs, NPs and PAs to obtain their CME credits.
Through its CME events, the Foundation encourages lifelong learning for healthcare practitioners and medical students alike. In an effort to reinforce the strong heritage of the osteopathic community in southern Arizona, TOMF proctors end-of-rotation exams and hosts mixers for osteopathic medical students rotating in the area.
Compendium Edition, Clinical Application of Counterstrain is a publication of the Foundation's Osteopathic Press. In this unique, at-a-glance presentation, doctor, author, lecturer, teacher, and nationally recognized master of Counterstrain, Harmon L. Myers, DO, shared a lifetime of insight and a step-by-step approach for clinicians of all disciplines to quickly and effectively diagnose and treat much of what ails us. Also available as an eBook, it is for sale on Amazon.
Community Healthcare Issues
The Foundation's website, provides information about TOMF and the TOMF social media pages are updated frequently with health related posts and information about current Foundation programs and activities.
Foundation staff are also heavily involved in a variety of local health and healthcare-related organizations and collaborations.
Charitable Activities
Although it is an operating foundation (meaning the majority of the annual budget must be used to fund its own programs), the Foundation provides charitable grants totaling $25,000 annually. Recently, the grant's focus areas were technology upgrades for public health non-profit organizations, and programs addressing substance use disorder or mental health in Southern Arizona
The Founders' Scholarships award a total of $45,000 annually to osteopathic medical students attending Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University - AZCOM, and A. T. Still University - SOMA.
You
If you have ideas about health programs TOMF should bring to Tucson and Southern Arizona, please contact us at 520-299-4545 or info@tomf.org. We learn as much from the community as we do from professional input.