When many of us think about vaccines, images of children lining up for the first doses of the polio vaccine may pop into your head. This was the first publicized vaccination campaign to eradicate an easily transmissible but now preventable disease.
Runners often experience acute/chronic pain due to pre-existing structural somatic dysfunction and/or acquired various overuse injuries of the lower extremity, specifically affecting the ligaments, tendons, muscles, and bones.
As Match season 2025 wraps up this year on March 21, students and DOs who are participating in this year’s National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Match are anxiously awaiting to find out which programs they have matched into. The NRMP uses a computerized mathematical algorithm to place applicants into residency and fellowship programs; the algorithm … Read More
CHICAGO—Breaking a new record for osteopathic residency placements on Match Day, a total of 8,049 osteopathic (DO) medical students and graduates matched into postgraduate year one (PGY-1) training programs today through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Match. This all-time high total reflects a 92.6% match rate for the 8,392 DO seniors who participated, an … Read More
Edward Stiles, DO, FAAO (Dist.), has dedicated his career to advancing osteopathic medicine. A graduate of A.T. Still University Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (ATSU-KCOM), he was mentored by leading specialists and pioneered the first hospital-based osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) services and Medicare coding system. With decades of leadership at osteopathic colleges, including the University … Read More
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has diverse applications across various clinical specialties, serving as an adjunct to clinical findings and as a tool for increasing the quality of patient care.
Let me start by saying that I don’t plan to, nor do I wish to, ever pick up a scalpel again. Depending on your line of work, you may never wish to pick up your respective medical implement either, whether it’s a stethoscope, a reflex hammer or simply a pen.
In response to growing concerns over vaccine misinformation, declining public trust in science and recent outbreaks of preventable diseases, a coalition of 34 scientific and medical organizations, led by the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) and the American College of Physicians (ACP), has issued a unified statement emphasizing the critical role of vaccinations in public … Read More
n 2020, the allopathic and osteopathic residency programs were merged into a single residency system, with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) as the sole accreditor for residencies and fellowships in the United States.