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
We appreciate the response from the authors regarding our publication on former American Osteopathic Association (AOA)-accredited ophthalmology and otolaryngology programs and their transition to the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). We agree that financial factors likely influenced individual graduate medical education (GME) institutions’ decision to pursue accreditation of a particular specialty program over … Read More
We read Ahmed et al.’s recent article “AOA Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology Program Closures as a Model to Highlight Challenges of Maintaining GME in High Need Areas” with great interest and congratulate them on their publication. They found that previously accredited AOA ophthalmology and otolaryngology residency programs were less likely to obtain ACGME accreditation (47 and … 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
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has severely ravaged the world since the end of 2019. Although most cases range from mild to severe with primarily respiratory symptoms, there have been some unusual clinical presentations, one of which is described in this case report.
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
Opioids are commonly utilized for the treatment of chronic pain. However, research regarding the long-term (≥12 months) outcomes of opioid therapy remains sparse.