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APMA Membership Categories
APMA has numerous membership categories that have been established to address member needs. Members are responsible
for contacting their component society to seek membership category changes.
Below is a list of current member categories and qualifications:

n Postgraduate
A DPM who is serving as a resident, fellow, or who is a
full-time postgraduate student, or a graduate who,
during the first year following graduation, has not entered practice or been admitted to a residency program.

2. has maintained APMA membership for a minimum
of 25 consecutive years and is completely retired
from practice. No minimum age requirement; or
3. has maintained APMA membership for a minimum
of 50 consecutive years. No minimum age requirement and the DPM may still be in practice.

n Associate
Available to DPMs who have been in practice for fewer
than five years. Associates pay a lower national annual
dues rate than Active members.

n Active
A DPM who has been in practice for more than five
years.

n 5.4 Status
A DPM for whom the payment of dues would constitute a hardship due to a temporary physical disability,
illness, or other reasons as investigated and set forth
by the component society. This status allows the member to be excused from payment of both component
and national dues (all or a portion), for the current
fiscal year.

n Non-Practicing
A DPM who has not been engaged in practice or in the
dispensing of podiatric medical services for a minimum
of one year (due to taking care of a family member who
is ill, raising a family, etc.).

n Faculty
A licensed DPM who is engaged primarily in a teaching
or research position at a college of podiatric medicine,
medical school, or academic health science center.

n Senior
A DPM who has reached the age of 62, or has been
forced to curtail his or her practice because of illness,
and is actively engaged in practice for no more than 20
hours per week, and has been an APMA member for 15
consecutive years.

n Disabled
A DPM who is disabled, and for whom the payment
of dues would constitute a hardship. "Disabled" shall
mean total disability that continuously prevents the
member from carrying out substantial and material
professional duties. Such members must be under
the regular care of a physician, other than him- or
herself, and may not derive any income or profit from
any activity as a DPM.

n Affiliate/International
A DPM practicing in any country other than the United
States who is a graduate of a CPME-accredited college
of podiatric medicine, or a practitioner of any country,
other than the United States, who devotes a substantial
portion of his or her practice to the medical and/or surgical care of the foot and is not a DPM.

n Life
There are three ways a DPM may qualify for Life membership:
1. has maintained APMA membership for a minimum
of 15 consecutive years and is at least 65 years of
age and completely retired from practice;

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n Federal Services Member
A licensed DPM whose principal (50 percent or greater)
or sole employment in the field of podiatric medicine
is in the Federal Services.

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