Osteopathic Family Physician
Given the unprecedented growth of the osteopathic profession in the past few decades, osteopathic clinical education has been turbulent. Maintaining a unique osteopathic professional identity during the years of clinical training has been difficult because of limited DO preceptors, time constraints and the hesitancy of MD preceptors to embrace osteopathic tenets as well as manual medicine. The objective of this research was to delineate student feelings about sustaining their osteopathic uniqueness in a "dually accredited" system and the ability of this system to meet the needs of osteopathic students.
Abstract avaible here.
