Is an osteopathic physician a medical doctor? Well, it depends on who you ask. An osteopathic physician has a D.O. degree, which is different from the standard medical (M.D.) degree. I’ve commented in ...

My previous post on osteopathic medical training--suggesting that osteopathic physicians, on average, may not be as good as doctors with MD degrees--received a flood of negative comments. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the years after the Civil War, without antibiotics and vaccines, many clinicians of the day relied on techniques like arsenic, ...

FORT SMITH -- The Arkansas Colleges of Health Education will help develop an assessment to train osteopathic medical students nationwide. The institution's Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine was ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Osteopathic students had less success matching into orthopedic surgery vs. allopathic students. From 2019 to ...

After 1,000 days of continuous planning, enrollment is now open for the Meritus School of Osteopathic Medicine for the fall 2025 semester. The school received conditional approval to operate in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There are now 207,158 DOs and osteopathic medicine students. Almost 70% of actively practicing DOs are younger ...

Andrea Amalfitano is a D.O. and dean of the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He explains some of the foundations of the profession and its guiding principle: to use holistic ...

After three of Andrew Taylor Still’s children died of spinal meningitis in 1864, the midwestern healer turned against mainstream medicine. Eschewing drugs and surgery, Still gravitated toward the ...

Who, exactly, are doctors of osteopathic medicine, and how are they different from other doctors? Most people who have been to a hospital or clinic have encountered the species of medical professional ...

Osteopathic physicians continue to grow in number in the United States, bringing with them a unique patient care philosophy that’s reshaping the clinical care landscape. The number of practicing ...

Doctors of osteopathic medicine have been around since the late-1800s but are gaining increasing attention due to their recent dramatic growth. While doctor of osteopathic medicine training was ...