FIAO Maintenance Requirements
Dues
- Must be renewed for current year by 31/01/20XX
- If you forget about it, you will be romoved from the website. You will have time till 31/03/20XX to renew membership.
- After 31/03/20XX you will loose your FIAO statement
- Fee for reinstatement (€80 + cost of dues)
- Must pay all back dues
Ortho-K Promoting Activities: 3 of the following in two years
- Attend section meeting (even if not your own section)
- Mentor an FIAO candidate
- Sit on a final oral FIAO testing committee panel
- Participate actively in the newbie mentor program
- Publish an Ortho-K article in a peer reviewed journal
- Lecture on Ortho-K at a professional meeting (excludes presentation on behalf of a vendor)
- Lecture on Ortho-K at an educational institution
- Actively participate in the IAO or section Google group or Ortho-K social media (minimum of 3 educational postings/month)
- Other: If you are promoting the IAO or your section in some other manner (that is not simply self-promotion) contact your chair to determine if this qualifies
Compliance
- Both categories must be met at the end of 2017, 2019, 2021, etc. (i.e. every two years) .
- All documentation must be submitted by December 31st of the deadline year to your Section Fellowship Committee Chair
- Failure to renew membership will result in removal from website
- Failure to provide maintenance documentation will result in
- The prominent FIAO designation being removed from the section and IAO website
- Name removed from FIAO search (not practitioner search)
- Reinstatement of designation will occur once
- The required points are achieved
- The reinstatement fee of €150 is paid