July 22, 2012Sunday CMEHouse of Delegates Continuing education House votes to restore full CME credit for standardized life-support courses Policy allows hour-for-hour credit for courses through the end of the 2010-12 CME cycle.
July 21, 2012Saturday board certificationHouse of Delegates AOA Policy AOA House: Don’t withdraw certification until all appeals have been exhausted After a long debate, delegates say yes to letting DOs with restricted licenses maintain their specialty certification pending appeal.
July 21, 2012Saturday House of Delegatesobesity Patient Care Insurers should cover all treatments for severe obesity, AOA House says. “If we’re going to treat the whole person, surgery is an important component of obesity treatment,” delegate says.
July 21, 2012Saturday graduate medical educationHouse of Delegates For sale? House votes for efforts to keep offshore MD schools from buying U.S. GME slots U.S.-based graduate medical education programs should maintain their ability to select residents based on merit, House says.
July 6, 2012Friday In Memoriam A life in medicine In Memoriam: July 6, 2012 View the names of recently deceased osteopathic physicians.
June 19, 2012Tuesday pathology ‘The Best of All Worlds’ Pathologist finds niche in blood banking, transfusion medicine Melissa R. George, DO, of Pennsylvania dispels the myth that pathologists are chained to their microscopes and work only with the dead.
June 1, 2012Friday In Memoriam A Life in Medicine In Memoriam: June 1, 2012 View the names of recently deceased osteopathic physicians.
May 28, 2012Monday hospital medicine Week On, Week Off One of a soaring number, DO takes to hospital medicine’s fast pace, complexity “There are more job openings for hospitalists than physicians to fill the positions, so it’s a seller’s market,” DO says.
May 15, 2012Tuesday opinionosteopathic history Opinion What we ‘knew’ then Medical history tells us that much of what we “know” to be true today may be proved false in the future.
May 4, 2012Friday In Memoriam A Life in Medicine In Memoriam: May 4, 2012 View the names of recently deceased osteopathic physicians.