Sleeping well during residency is challenging at best, but preventing chronic sleep deprivation is critical for your physical, mental and emotional health.
First came love, then came marriage, then came working together at the same practice. Three DO couples explain how and why they mix business with matrimony.
The Primary Care Enhancement Act of 2017 will allow patients to use HSA funds to pay for direct primary care. Here’s what you need to know about the bill and how to tell your member of Congress to support it.
Jeffrey Grove, DO, and Michael Jackowitz, DO, won big for “Once on This Island,” which landed the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. The musical was nominated for eight Tonys in total.
CHICAGO—June 12, 2018—Shingles vaccination is now nearly twice as effective as the previous protocol and available to patients 10 years younger than before, enabling largescale prevention of a painful, common condition. Adoption of the new standard of care could vastly reduce the one million annual cases of the disease, according to osteopathic physicians. Almost one … Read More
A new survey from the AOA finds more than half of millennials and more than four out of 10 adults are or would like to be friends with or follow their health care providers on social media. Here’s what you need to know.
Washington (June 11, 2018)—Leaders of six medical organizations representing more than 560,000 physicians and medical students called on Congress today to adopt policies that recognize opioid use disorder (OUD) as a chronic disease of the brain that requires comprehensive treatment. Doing so, the medical leaders said, would hold greater promise of successfully addressing the OUD … Read More
The Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MPSE) provides a summary of a medical student’s achievements and academic accomplishments. Here’s what you need to know about how this document impacts your residency application.
AOA President Mark A. Baker, DO, educated international health leaders about the distinctions between U.S.-trained DOs and non-physician osteopaths during the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.