diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f18138711..a54279b91 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -45,22 +45,47 @@ assert user.name == "Jason"
 assert user.age == 25
 ```
 
-!!! note "Using `openai<1.0.0`"
+**"Using `openai<1.0.0`"**
 
-    If you're using `openai<1.0.0` then make sure you `pip install instructor<0.3.0`
-    where you can patch a global client like so:
+If you're using `openai<1.0.0` then make sure you `pip install instructor<0.3.0`
+where you can patch a global client like so:
 
-    ```python hl_lines="4 8"
-    import openai
-    import instructor
+```python hl_lines="4 8"
+import openai
+import instructor
 
-    instructor.patch()
+instructor.patch()
 
-    user = openai.ChatCompletion.create(
-        ...,
-        response_model=UserDetail,
-    )
-    ```
+user = openai.ChatCompletion.create(
+    ...,
+    response_model=UserDetail,
+)
+```
+
+**"Using async clients"**
+
+For async clients you must use apatch vs patch like so:
+
+```py
+import instructor
+from openai import AsyncOpenAI
+
+aclient = instructor.apatch(AsyncOpenAI())
+
+class UserExtract(BaseModel):
+    name: str
+    age: int
+
+model = await aclient.chat.completions.create(
+    model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
+    response_model=UserExtract,
+    messages=[
+        {"role": "user", "content": "Extract jason is 25 years old"},
+    ],
+)
+
+assert isinstance(model, UserExtract)
+```
 
 ## Installation
 
diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
index 6fcf68b62..62e213591 100644
--- a/docs/index.md
+++ b/docs/index.md
@@ -2,11 +2,9 @@
 
 _Structured extraction in Python, powered by OpenAI's function calling api, designed for simplicity, transparency, and control._
 
-Built to interact solely with openai's function calling api from python. It's designed to be intuitive, easy to use, and provide great visibility into your prompts.
-
 ---
 
-[Star us on Github!](https://jxnl.github.io/instructor)
+[Star us on Github!](https://jxnl.github.io/instructor).
 
 [![Buy Me a Coffee](https://img.shields.io/badge/Buy%20Me%20a%20Coffee-Donate-yellow)](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jxnlco)
 [![Downloads](https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/instructor.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/instructor)
@@ -19,12 +17,12 @@ Built to interact solely with openai's function calling api from python. It's de
 [![PyPI version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/instructor.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/instructor)
 [![PyPI pyversions](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/instructor.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/instructor)
 
----
+Built to interact solely with openai's function calling api from python. It's designed to be intuitive, easy to use, and provide great visibility into your prompts.
 
 ## Usage
 
 ```py hl_lines="5 13"
-from openai import OpenAI()
+from openai import OpenAI
 import instructor
 
 # Enables `response_model`
@@ -47,7 +45,7 @@ assert user.name == "Jason"
 assert user.age == 25
 ```
 
-!!! note "Using `openai<1.0.0`"
+!!! warning "Using `openai<1.0.0`"
 
     If you're using `openai<1.0.0` then make sure you `pip install instructor<0.3.0`
     where you can patch a global client like so:
@@ -64,6 +62,31 @@ assert user.age == 25
     )
     ```
 
+!!! note "Using async clients"
+
+    For async clients you must use apatch vs patch like so:
+
+    ```py
+    import instructor
+    from openai import AsyncOpenAI
+
+    aclient = instructor.apatch(AsyncOpenAI())
+
+    class UserExtract(BaseModel):
+        name: str
+        age: int
+
+    model = await aclient.chat.completions.create(
+        model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
+        response_model=UserExtract,
+        messages=[
+            {"role": "user", "content": "Extract jason is 25 years old"},
+        ],
+    )
+
+    assert isinstance(model, UserExtract)
+    ```
+
 ## Installation
 
 To get started you need to install it using `pip`. Run the following command in your terminal:
@@ -89,9 +112,10 @@ The patch introduces 3 features to the `ChatCompletion` class:
 
 First, import the required libraries and apply the patch function to the OpenAI module. This exposes new functionality with the response_model parameter.
 
-```python hl_lines="6"
+```python
 import instructor
 from openai import OpenAI
+from pydantic import BaseModel
 
 # This enables response_model keyword
 # from client.chat.completions.create
@@ -115,7 +139,7 @@ class UserDetail(BaseModel):
 Use the `client.chat.completions.create` method to send a prompt and extract the data into the Pydantic object. The response_model parameter specifies the Pydantic model to use for extraction. Its helpful to annotate the variable with the type of the response model.
 which will help your IDE provide autocomplete and spell check.
 
-```python hl_lines="3"
+```python
 user: UserDetail = client.chat.completions.create(
     model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
     response_model=UserDetail,
@@ -128,7 +152,7 @@ assert user.name == "Jason"
 assert user.age == 25
 ```
 
-## Advanced: Pydantic Validation
+## Pydantic Validation
 
 Validation can also be plugged into the same Pydantic model. Here, if the answer attribute contains content that violates the rule "don't say objectionable things," Pydantic will raise a validation error.
 
@@ -155,20 +179,20 @@ except ValidationError as e:
 
 Its important to not here that the error message is generated by the LLM, not the code, so it'll be helpful for re asking the model.
 
-```plaintext hl_lines="3"
+```plaintext
 1 validation error for QuestionAnswer
 answer
    Assertion failed, The statement is objectionable. (type=assertion_error)
 ```
 
-## Advanced: Reask on validation error
+## Reask on validation error
 
 Here, the `UserDetails` model is passed as the `response_model`, and `max_retries` is set to 2.
 
-```python hl_lines="15-18 22 23 29"
+```python
+from openai import OpenAI
 import instructor
 
-from openai import OpenAI
 from pydantic import BaseModel, field_validator
 
 # Apply the patch to the OpenAI client
diff --git a/instructor/__init__.py b/instructor/__init__.py
index 0417839a5..b03ccf7b7 100644
--- a/instructor/__init__.py
+++ b/instructor/__init__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from .function_calls import OpenAISchema, openai_function, openai_schema
 from .distil import FinetuneFormat, Instructions
 from .dsl import MultiTask, Maybe, llm_validator, CitationMixin
-from .patch import patch
+from .patch import patch, apatch
 
 __all__ = [
     "OpenAISchema",
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
     "Maybe",
     "openai_schema",
     "patch",
+    "apatch",
     "llm_validator",
     "FinetuneFormat",
     "Instructions",
diff --git a/instructor/patch.py b/instructor/patch.py
index 61c2cf391..bdf9507fc 100644
--- a/instructor/patch.py
+++ b/instructor/patch.py
@@ -134,9 +134,7 @@ def retry_sync(
                 raise e
 
 
-def wrap_chatcompletion(func: Callable) -> Callable:
-    is_async = inspect.iscoroutinefunction(func)
-
+def wrap_chatcompletion(func: Callable, is_async: bool = None) -> Callable:
     @wraps(func)
     async def new_chatcompletion_async(
         response_model=None,
@@ -211,7 +209,7 @@ def apatch(client):
     - `validation_context` parameter to validate the response using the pydantic model
     - `strict` parameter to use strict json parsing
     """
-    client.chat.completions.acreate = wrap_chatcompletion(
-        client.chat.completions.acreate
+    client.chat.completions.create = wrap_chatcompletion(
+        client.chat.completions.create, is_async=True
     )
     return client
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index df1470618..f17742b7a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "instructor"
-version = "0.3.1"
+version = "0.3.2"
 description = "Helper functions that allow us to improve openai's function_call ergonomics"
 authors = ["Jason Liu <jason@jxnl.co>"]
 license = "MIT"
diff --git a/tests/test_patch.py b/tests/test_patch.py
index a3a1ea9ea..3029a49a3 100644
--- a/tests/test_patch.py
+++ b/tests/test_patch.py
@@ -1,9 +1,32 @@
+import pytest
+
 from pydantic import BaseModel
-from openai import OpenAI
+from openai import OpenAI, AsyncOpenAI
 
 import instructor
 
 client = instructor.patch(OpenAI())
+aclient = instructor.apatch(AsyncOpenAI())
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_async_runmodel():
+    class UserExtract(BaseModel):
+        name: str
+        age: int
+
+    model = await aclient.chat.completions.create(
+        model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
+        response_model=UserExtract,
+        messages=[
+            {"role": "user", "content": "Extract jason is 25 years old"},
+        ],
+    )
+    assert isinstance(model, UserExtract), "Should be instance of UserExtract"
+    assert model.name.lower() == "jason"
+    assert hasattr(
+        model, "_raw_response"
+    ), "The raw response should be available from OpenAI"
 
 
 def test_runmodel():