OCA MEMBERSHIP LEVELS
REGULAR MEMBERS
- Membership in:
- Application made on a Prescribed Form
- Endorsement by two regular members of the Osteopathic Cranial Academy
- Successful completion of an approved introductory course in Osteopathy in the Cranial Field
- Payment of appropriate dues
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
- Application made on a Prescribed Form
- Endorsement by two regular members of the Osteopathic Cranial Academy
- Successful completion of an approved introductory course in Osteopathy in the Cranial Field
- Payment of appropriate dues
AFFILIATE MEMBERS
Osteopaths trained in countries other than the United States are eligible to become affiliate members of the Osteopathic Cranial Academy, as long as they are a member in good standing of an Affiliate Society recognized by the Osteopathic Cranial Academy in their home country or province.
Doctors of Medicine (MDs) licensed in countries other than the United States are also welcome to become affiliate members of the Osteopathic Cranial Academy. To be eligible for affiliate membership, they must hold an unlimited licensure to practice medicine in the country where they reside and be eligible for licensure in the United States.
Osteopath Requirements for affiliate membership include:
- Membership (in good standing) of their Affiliate Society (recognized by the Osteopathic Cranial Academy) in the country or province in which they practice osteopathy
- Application made on a Prescribed Form
- Recommendation by one regular member of the Osteopathic Cranial Academy
- Successful completion of an approved introductory course in Osteopathy in the Cranial Field
- Payment of appropriate dues
Doctors of Medicine or Dentistry (trained in countries other than the United States) requirements for affiliate membership include:
- Unlimited licensure to practice medicine in the country where they reside and eligibility for licensure in the United States
- Application made on a Prescribed Form
- Recommendation by one regular member
- Successful completion of an approved introductory course in Osteopathy in the Cranial Field
- Payment of appropriate dues

STUDENT MEMBERS
Student members are always welcome. Requirements for student membership include:
- Enrollment in any US accredited osteopathic (DO) or US accredited allopathic (MD) college of medicine
- Application made on a Prescribed Form
- Successful completion of an approved introductory course in Osteopathy in the Cranial Field
- Payment of appropriate dues
Design Note #1: There are many ways to syle a webpage, but one common method is to place a meaningful image at the top that spans the page end-to-end horizontally. The current image is not recommended as it lacks sufficient resolution, but what is proposed is this manner of sizing top-of-the-page images; it is superior to what is currently published on the live site page. In general, we should seek quality images that are approximately 1280 x 640 pixels for this purpose. Larger is ok, but it should be possible to either scale down or crop to something in the vicinity of 1280 x 640. 1280 up to 1600’ish is good for widths and 450 to 650 is generally good for the height of page-top images such as this. Though there is leeway in width and height, in general, from page to page for any given site, it’s best to keep the width/height of all these page-top images identical or at least very similar, if possible.
- Note #1 already spoke to general good pixel dimensions for pictures placed atop pages. Ideally, there would be a representative picture for every page (or at least most pages) placed atop for similarity of look/theme for each and every page selected by users
- When creating “sections”, it’s generally good to also have a representative photo for each section. These tend to be more portrait or square in dimension with widths typically in the range of 350 to 650 pixels. Larger images are OK, as they can be scaled down in size, but smaller typically isn’t as they lack the resolution for scaling or interpolating up.
- These matters are brought to attention to stress the symbiotic nature of picture content and quality web design. The current OCA media library has insufficient content to meet ideal objectives for use of picture content atop each page and in each section. Guidance is requested for how to best handle the matter. Options seem to be: 1.) Do the best with what’s currently available in the WP media library 2.) Receive the content from OCA, either by new effort or providing more picture content from another existing external picture library… or 3.) The Developer (me) takes charge to find representative picture content that OCA approves on the back-end.