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Thames Scholarship Application

2025 Lynn Thames Student Leadership Scholarship
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Please provide either a 500 word essay or a 2-3 minute video presentation covering these topics:

How are you personally developing your leadership skills and how are you being a leader in your school or community?

Include thoughts on:

What does professionalism mean to you regarding the AOM profession.

What does leadership mean to you in your community (both school and your wider community).

Describe the importance of both leadership and professionalism in helping you develop into an outstanding representative and provider of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.

Maximum file size: 134.22MB

Maximum file size: 134.22MB

Where to have the recommendations sent?

By Email -

By US Mail - FSOMA, PO Box 10066

Bradenton, FL 34282

By Fax - 888-336-4096

General Information

The Lynn Thames Memorial Scholarship has been established to honor Dr. Thames for her passion as a teacher, mentor and leader in the field of Oriental Medicine. Dr. Thames knew that the acupuncture profession has always depended upon and continues to need fresh passionate leaders and teachers.

Dr. Thames had an uncanny ability to maximize the strengths in the people with whom she interacted. Lynn inspired people to recognize their gifts as strengths and motivated them to honor their authentic self. Dr. Thames believed that personal and professional growth began and flourished with an understanding of how people gather and interpret in information. Lynn taught that accessing and sharing information depended on developing culturally literacy. Being competent in cultural diversity is core to creating the bridges needed to reach students, patients, friends and colleagues.

Dr. Thames shared that leadership was most effective when approached in this way. Lynn practiced this style of leadership throughout her career. She was first introduced to the role of respecting cultural diversity in the 1970’s while working as a professional Girl Scout. This concept became more fully developed for Dr. Thames later while working with foster children as a program and camp director for several organizations. Lynn believed and taught that building bridges for communication and mutual respect were keys to progress and success in the treatment room, classroom, boardroom and in life.

Lynn Thames was a FSOMA Board member and much loved teacher of AOM at FCIM. In her honor FSOMA established the The Lynn Thames Leadership Scholarship. It is designed to advance Traditional Chinese Medicine by supporting the brightest and most passionate Acupuncture students. FSOMA is offering $500 scholarship/scholarships through the Lynn Thames Leadership Scholarship to current students of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.

Submitting this application is giving FSOMA permission to contact your school to verify attendance and GPA.

In order to be eligible for the scholarships, the applicant must:

(1) provide proof of a minimum cumulative 3.0 GPA

(2) be a 2nd or 3rd year current student of a participating school and will attend the following term

(3) return a completed application form, including an essay or Video.

Deadline: All applications must be submitted by 12/31/2023.

Upon completion of the application, you will be provided a copy of this application to turn in to your institution's financial aid office.

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Important updates to your account and the website platform

 

Hello FSOMA Acupuncturists! 

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our new website platform for our valued members and the public! Your patience throughout this transition period has been greatly appreciated.

After diligent effort with our tech team, we’re proud to announce that we are launching a more stable and robust platform, designed to enhance your user experience and offer an array of new features and resources. Whether you’re accessing information or engaging with our community, we’re confident you’ll find the new website to be much more user-friendly. As we embark on this exciting journey together, we extend our gratitude for your ongoing support, which fuels our mission to serve and empower professional acupuncturists in Florida. 

Please take a moment to read through the important updates regarding membership renewal and payment processes outlined below. Your involvement is integral to our collective success, and we’re excited to grow and innovate together through this new platform. Thank you for being a vital part of the FSOMA community!

If this is the first time you are renewing your membership since March 1st, 2025, because of the changes to our system all memberships that were due to automatically renew will instead expire on their next renewal date. 

To keep your account active you must log in with your username and update your credit card information by manually re-registering your membership through our new gateway when it is time for your renewal. This is only a one time process. 

At the time of your first login you will be prompted to reset your password. Once logged in, just navigate to the Become a Member page and select your membership level and follow the checkout process.

For payment to process smoothly, please make sure that your payment method is active, and you have sufficient funds. And if you need to automate your payments in our new platform for the future, simply go to your Account Profile while logged in and under the ‘My Subscriptions’ tab select your active subscription and make sure auto-renew is toggled on.

As your renewal date gets close you will receive email reminders about this process and the steps to take. You will also receive reminders if your membership has lapsed as a helpful nudge in case you missed the initial reminder emails, so stay on the lookout through this process to help us help you keep your account active. 

Your ongoing support is what drives us to continue working to secure YOUR future as a professional acupuncturist in the state of Florida and to provide the best possible services to our members. The more we grow the more we can do and the new website will help take us there!

Please keep an eye out for future communications and updates as we move forward.

Best regards,

Your FSOMA Board of Directors