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CHICAGO—Osteopathic medical students and graduates once again achieved record-breaking success in the 2026 National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Match, marking the fourth consecutive year of growth in residency placements for DOs. Building on historic outcomes in 2023, 2024 and 2025, this year’s results reaffirm the continued demand for osteopathic physicians across the full spectrum of … Read More
Ileft my clinical clerkships on a high, plane ticket in hand and eager to carry this new clinical lens into my longstanding passion for global public health. Throughout my life, service trips to Kenya and Honduras have shaped my life choices, from selecting my college major to committing to medicine. This year, I planned to … Read More
If you search the app store for “mental health,” you’ll find yourself scrolling through hundreds of options. Meditation apps, therapy apps, artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, mood trackers—the list goes on. The mental health app space is saturated, and it can be overwhelming to decide which ones are actually useful and worth downloading.
Join the AOA for the osteopathic profession’s premier public policy event of the year: DO Day 2026. Whether you attend in-person or virtually, DO Day offers a platform for physicians and medical students to sharpen their leadership skills while advocating for the legislative issues that matter most to doctors and patients alike.
AOA Trustee Joshua Lenchus, DO, grew up imagining a future in medicine, but no one in his family worked in healthcare. Like many first-generation DOs, his understanding of medicine was shaped more by what he read or heard than by familiarity via a physician family member. When he first explored medical school, what he understood … Read More
Tanzina A. Ela, DO, arrived in the United States from Bangladesh in 2017 with bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery (MBBS) medical degrees, an internship behind her and the expectation that her life was finally beginning. Instead, life as she knew it was ending. The arranged marriage she entered months earlier became violent fast, … Read More
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