All You Need to Know About Osteopathic Medicine as a Career

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    August 10, 2022 11:01 PM PDT
    As an osteopathic physician (D.O.), you are trained to take a holistic approach to health care. Your training in osteopathic medicine teaches you to understand how all of the body's systems are interconnected and how each affects the others. In particular, osteopathic medicine emphasizes the way our musculoskeletal system, the bones and muscles that make up about two-thirds of our body mass, reflects and influences the condition of all other body systems.

    Your training as an osteopathic physician encourages you to build partnerships with your patients by considering the impact of lifestyle and society on their health. You use your eyes and hands to identify structural problems and support the body's natural tendency toward health and self-healing. Your compassionate care and communication/listening skills also play a critical role in improving your patients' lives by noticing their health concerns and helping them develop attitudes that both fight and prevent disease.

    Most osteopathic medical schools emphasize preventive medicine and comprehensive patient care that incorporates osteopathic principles and techniques, including the art of osteopathic manipulative medicine, a system of hands-on techniques that help relieve pain, restore mobility and influence the structure of the body to function better. After medical school, you complete a residency in general medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, or pediatrics, or in a specialty such as surgery, emergency medicine, psychiatry, or neurology.

    D.O.s, like M.D.s, are fully trained physicians who may prescribe medications and perform surgery. While they can choose any specialty, from emergency medicine and cardiovascular surgery to psychiatry and geriatrics, they are trained primarily as general practitioners and only secondarily as specialists.

    According to the American Osteopathic Association (AOA):

    D.O.s are one of the fastest growing segments of health professionals in the United States. Currently, there are approximately 114,000 osteopathic physicians in medical practice.

    Projections indicate that D.O.s will make up more than 20% of the total U.S. population by 2030. D.O.s make up 25% of all medical students in the United States.

    Many D.O.s fill a critical need for physicians by practicing in rural and other medically underserved communities.

    [url=https://www.osteopathyjobs.online/]Osteopath jobs[/url] physicians have treated U.S. presidents and Olympic athletes and contributed to the fight against HIV/AIDS and for civil rights. They have held high-ranking public service positions, such as surgeon general of the U.S. Army and administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

    If you want to be a physician who sees the whole person and not just the symptoms or the disease, who gets to know his or her patients as people and is committed to the community, who is compassionate, has a healing hand, and is a good communicator, and who enjoys meeting a variety of people from different backgrounds, then a career in osteopathic medicine may be for you.

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