FACRM Criteria & Selection Procedures

Criteria & Selection Procedures for the Honor of Fellow of ACRM ("FACRM")

The ACRM honors those of its members who have made significant contributions to the field of medical rehabilitation and to the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine with naming them as "Fellow of ACRM." New Fellows are selected annually by the Fellows Committee. Selection criteria and nomination procedures are set forth below.

Selection Criteria:

1. Outstanding service. The nominee must have made sustained (at least 5 years) contributions of national significance to the field of medical rehabilitation in both of the following areas: the interdisciplinary field of medical rehabilitation clinical practice, research, education, or administration AND the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine.
   
   Service to the interdisciplinary field of medical rehabilitation should include at least two of the following, and each contribution should be of significance at a national level:

   • Sustained, extensive, or significant contribution to the body of literature in medical rehabilitation;

   • Multiple years service as key clinician in medical rehabilitation;

   • Multiple years service as senior level manager and/or leader in medical rehabilitation;

   • Multiple years service as senior educator in a prominent training program in medical rehabilitation;

   • Writer/editor of a core medical rehabilitation-related textbook; editor of a major rehabilitation journal;

   • Service on the board of a national or major regional/state medical rehabilitation-related organization, other than ACRM;

   • Other leadership/activity in a national or major regional/state medical rehabilitation-related organization other than ACRM (e.g., committee chairperson; task force chairperson);

   • Service on a major medical rehabilitation-related advisory group or on the board of a national consumer disability organization;

   • Service on national medical rehabilitation research, clinical, and/or educational advisory committees; Service on the editorial board of a rehabilitation journal.

   Professional service to the ACRM MUST include at least one of the following activities:

   • A record of consistent presentation and participation at the ACRM annual meeting;

   • Active membership in at least one ACRM committee, interdisciplinary special interest group, task force or networking group;

   • Other extensive professional activity on behalf of the ACRM that advances the mission of the ACRM and its members.

   • While this service does not have to be sustained throughout the individual's career, it is preferable that this activity/service to the Congress be sustained up to the time of nomination, or have occurred within 5 years prior to nomination.

2. Membership. The nominee must have been an active member of the ACRM in good standing for a period of, at least, 5 consecutive years and be a member in good standing at the time of nomination.