If you participated in the NRMP Match, the first thing you should do immediately following Match Week—before you start thinking about preparing for residency—is congratulate yourself. You have put in a lot of time and effort to reach your career goals, and taking a brief pause to give yourself positive encouragement is important.
Welcome back to The DO Book Club! This month, I reviewed Black Man in a White Coat by Damon Tweedy, MD (Picador, 2015, 294 pp.).
I know, I know … it sounds a bit paradoxical to tell physicians to start their careers with sound financial decisions when they just voluntarily sacrificed more than a decade of earning power in training while borrowing hundreds of thousands of dollars to enter a field with increasing regulation, a compensation bubble about to burst … Read More
The Utah State Legislature recently passed state graduate medical education (GME) legislation that will provide state funding to create new, and expand existing, medical residency programs in Utah. Spearheaded by John J. Dougherty, DO, founding dean and chief academic officer of the Noorda College of Osteopathic Medicine (Noorda-COM) in Provo, Utah, the legislation includes a provision to … Read More
Reaching a nearly 7% increase from the 2021 Match, the 2022 National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) matched 7,049 osteopathic medical students and past DO graduates into postgraduate year 1 (PGY1) residency positions, an all-time high. Reaching yet another high, 91.3% of the 7,303 participating DO students matched into residency programs in 41 specialties, the most … Read More
National Doctors’ Day (NDD) is celebrated every year on March 30 and is a day to honor doctors all over the world. This day was founded in 1842 by Eudora Brown Almond, who was the wife of family medicine physician Charles B. Almond, MD.
On March 18, the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act was signed into law by President Joe Biden. This bipartisan bill was developed to address the high rates of burnout among health care professionals as well as the high suicide rate among doctors.
Brian Loveless, DO’s, recent piece, “What is Osteopathic Medicine,” was thoughtfully written and quite timely. Dr. Loveless rightly calls for the need to come together on a unified definition of who we are and how we practice.
The following list of recently deceased osteopathic physicians includes links to obituaries and online memorials if they’re available. Readers can notify the AOA of their deceased colleagues by sending an email to [email protected]. View a list of past In Memoriam columns here.