Single GME JAOA editorial: Osteopathic recognition vital for DO trainees’ future Providing residents with a viable pathway to continue their osteopathic training should be a top priority of educators, writes Martin S. Levine, DO. Jan. 5, 2017Thursday The DO Staff Contact The DO Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Topics GMEJAOAresidency trainingsingle GME accreditation As the profession transitions to a single system of graduate medical education accreditation, providing osteopathic residents with a viable pathway to continue their osteopathic training should be a top priority of medical educators, maintains AOA Past President Martin S. Levine, DO, in a new editorial published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. In the editorial, Dr. Levine, who launched more than 140 residency positions as a director of medical education, urged residency program directors to apply for osteopathic recognition. Osteopathic recognition is a designation offered by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education; it recognizes programs that provide training in osteopathic manipulative medicine and the osteopathic philosophy. Dr. Levine also sought to dispel myths about the ACGME’s osteopathic recognition application process. “Perhaps program directors view [the osteopathic recognition application] as too time consuming,” he wrote. “The fact is that the osteopathic recognition application is shorter, and much of the information requested is similar to what program directors have already provided to the AOA.” The call-to-action section of the editorial outlined several steps program directors can take to get started on the osteopathic recognition process: Enlist help and support from your osteopathic colleagues; email singleGME@osteopathic.org for free support. Learn about osteopathic recognition by reading the ACGME’s guide and watching this webinar from the Association of Osteopathic Directors and Medical Educators. Start the application; be sure to answer each question on it before submitting. “It is up to all of us to make sure that osteopathic medicine is embedded in the fabric of the US medical education system,” Dr. Levine wrote. For more information, read the full editorial in the JAOA, and check out The DO’s recent coverage of programs that are pursuing osteopathic recognition: ACGME program director discusses value of osteopathic recognition. Osteopathic recognition in the ER: Ohio program preserves its heritage. Osteopathic recognition is key to GME program’s forward-thinking approach. More in Training 6 states in 12 months: A guide to life on the road during fourth year Fourth year is what you make it. Rachel Pray, OMS IV, shares how she embraced travel and adventure as much as possible during her fourth year. Being a DO in a heavily MD residency program: What surprised me I was incredibly nervous to join a large MD-dominant internal medicine residency, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much my osteopathic training helped me excel. Previous articleBurnout, discrimination and single GME: Read The DO's top stories of 2016 Next articleAOA seeks to ensure access to affordable care and coverage for patients
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Being a DO in a heavily MD residency program: What surprised me I was incredibly nervous to join a large MD-dominant internal medicine residency, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much my osteopathic training helped me excel.