Membership

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Advisor Membership Brochure (PDF)
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Patron Membership Brochure (PDF)
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HLTHPROF listserv

A benefit of membership is participation on the HLTHPROF listserv. College and university based advisors, as well as health professions schools admissions and student affairs staff members may subscribe to the listserv.  You are NOT automatically subscribed.  If you would like to participate in the HLTHPROF listserv send the following message to listserv@list.msu.edu:

"subscribe HLTHPROF [your name]"
 

What Is NAAHP?

The National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions is an organization of over 900 health professions advisors at colleges and universities throughout the United States. 

NAAHP was established in 1974 to coordinate the activities and efforts of four independent regional associations, so that health professions advisors across the nation could function together and speak with one voice.  It has grown steadily from that beginning into an effective national clearing house for opinions of advisors and news from allopathic and osteopathic medicine, chiropractic, dental, nursing, optometry, pharmacy, physical therapy, physician assistant, podiatric medical, public health, and veterinary medical schools.  In addition, NAAHP has established partnerships with health professions schools and their organizations through advisor liaisons and an Advisory Council comprised of representatives from these organizations.  

The success of NAAHP is directly dependent upon its four regional associations — Central (CAAHP), Northeast (NEAAHP), Southeast (SAAHP) and West (WAAHP) — from which it derives its strength and its membership.  NAAHP encourages each regional group and each member to share more fully their experiences and information with other regions and advisors, and has given all advisors a nationally recognized forum in which to state their views and share their research studies through its publication, The Advisor.

Mission of NAAHP

The National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions serves as a resource for the professional development of health professions advisors.  

It is a representative voice with health professions schools and their professional associations, undergraduate institutions, and other health professions organizations.  The Association promotes high standards for health professions advising at universities and colleges.  It assists advisors in fostering the intellectual, personal, and humanistic development of students as they prepare for careers in health professions.

Why join NAAHP?    

  • To be connected with a body of colleagues across the U.S. that understands, appreciates, and can support your work in pre-health advising.
  • To establish stronger communication with health professions schools and their associations.
  • To learn current information, enhance advising skills, and network with advisors and admissions representatives by attending the biennial national and regional conferences at a discounted rate.
  • To join with advisors nationwide in promoting the importance of health professions advising.
  • To work with undergraduate institutions, health professions schools, and other appropriate agencies to improve health professions advising.
  • To grow professionally and serve on regional and national boards, to make presentations at conferences, to serve in a variety of other capacities at meetings (session moderator or facilitator, conference planning committee member, etc.), and 
  • To network with key individuals from the health professional schools associations, the schools themselves, and colleagues from across the nation.
  • To keep informed and up-to-date through valuable publications and communication links, such as:
  • The Advisor, a quarterly journal containing articles, reprints, and research studies pertaining to health professions advising, education and careers (click here to visit the Abstracts Online page);
  • NAAHP-NET, a monthly electronic newsletter with regular updates and late-breaking news;
  • NAAHP listserv — (HLTHPROF) — for convenient and fast communication with fellow advisors and health professions admissions deans; 
  • NAAHPsack, our password-protected section of the NAAHP website, for active members only.
  • To receive complimentary publications, essential to your practice, such as the admissions requirements books for MD, DO, DDS and PA schools, updated annually, the savings of which essentially cover the cost of membership.
  • To receive the annual Directory of all NAAHP members, used by advisors and admissions deans nationwide.
  • To receive discounts on key publications such as:
  • The Premedical Advisor's Reference Manual, exclusively for NAAHP advisors to use in effectively guide their premedical students; 
  • Write for Success: Preparing a Successful Professional School Application;
  • Health Professions Admissions Guide; and
  • Interviewing for Health Professions Schools.

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What makes NAAHP worthwhile?

Through its services, NAAHP gathers, sifts, and disseminates helpful information in a far more effective way than any individual advisor could do independently.

Through a unified voice, advisors can have an impact with health professions schools, associations, and application services by communicating the needs of advisors and their students.

Governmental Structure

All activities of NAAHP are coordinated with and through the regional associations. Management and control of corporation affairs are vested in the fourteen-member Board of Directors.  Each regional association selects two representatives to serve on the Board.  The Executive Director serves as an ex-officio member of the Board and is appointed for a three-year term.  The Director of Communications serves as a member.  Other Board members serve two-year terms. The Executive Director supervises daily affairs of NAAHP.  The Executive Committee, composed of the President-Elect, Past-President, President, Secretary, and Treasurer, is elected by the Board of Directors at its annual meeting.  The NAAHP by-laws, which provide more detailed information on governance, are available to members on request, and are published in the annual Directory.