Maybe it is the stereotypical American in me, but prior to this past weekend’s events, I could not point to Finland if you gave me a globe or map. Now, however embarrassing that may or may not be, I was lucky enough to represent the Student Osteopathic Medical Association (SOMA) and the United States as … Read More
Monday, July 4th, 2022. I am at an all-American backyard BBQ and I’m feeling…out of place. Everyone is enjoying this national holiday without a worry in the world, while the gears in my brain spin so fast that I think I can smell something up there burning. Stories are exchanged about pregnancy and parenthood, reiterating … Read More
September 15 through October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month, a time to reflect on the contributions Hispanic Americans have made to the U.S. culture and economy. According to the latest statistics, there are roughly 62 million Hispanics living in the United States.
Ionce told a fellow physician who was suicidal to go to the ER and that there was nothing I could do. I was on call. I was also burned out and depressed, though I didn’t know it at the time. My immediate thought in that moment was “Why would a doctor be depressed and suicidal?” … Read More
The 2022 recipient of the AOA’s Bob E. Jones, CAE Award is Suzanne Frederick, MSN, executive director of the Idaho Osteopathic Physicians Association and the Kentucky Osteopathic Medical Association in recognition of her leadership and tremendous contributions toward advancing osteopathic medicine.
On April 1, 2022, as a third-year osteopathic medical student at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, our team from Global Hands arrived in Poland with the sole aim of providing care to Ukrainian refugees on a two-week medical mission trip. Since my return, I have had an opportunity to reflect on my experience and on … Read More
Residency interview season is nearly upon us. Interviews are the final step in the process of fourth-year medical students securing a residency position. As such, interviews play a crucial role in the residency selection process for both residency programs and fourth-year medical students alike.
The past two years have felt like a fever dream. Only eight months ago, while I was a fourth-year medical student on an infectious disease rotation, the Omicron variant of COVID was raging throughout the United States. I remember feeling dejected at the time, as if there was no end in sight. Shockingly, just over … Read More
There is quite a lot of confusion around the specialty of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (NMM/OMM). As faculty at an osteopathic medical school in the department of NMM/OMM, one of the questions I get often from our medical students is how to pursue NMM/OMM as a specialty. In a similar vein, many of … Read More