At a reception and program this April, three of the 12 new junior members inducted into the Medical Honor Society, Alpha Omega Alpha started their medical education in Duluth: Ben Smith, David Polzin and Dan Hoody.
The mission of the Minnesota chapter is to promote scholarship and research at the University of Minnesota medical school, to encourage a high standard of character and conduct among medical students and graduates, and to recognize high attainment in medical science, practice and related fields.
The Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, commonly called Alpha Omega Alpha and abbreviated AΩA or AOA, is the only national honor society for medicine in the United States. It was founded in 1902 by William Webster Root and five other medical students at the college of Physicians and Surgeons which later became the University of Illinois at Chicago medical school. Root and his colleagues wished to promote excellence in medical education. Only top medical students are elected, based on criteria such as grades, leadership and ethics.
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