This page features a list of links that may be useful to individuals seeking more information about medical education and osteopathic medicine.
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AACOM's Application Services
https://aacomas.aacom.org/
The American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) offers prospective students a convenient, centralized application service on-line for accredited osteopathic medical schools. Through AACOM's Application Service (AACOMAS®), students can file one electronic application then AACOMAS verifies and distributes the information to each of the colleges designated by the applicant.
The Academy of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine (ANM)
http://www.osteopathyinternational.org
The ANM promotes and integrates education, research and practical applications of osteopathic and manual medicine to maintain and enhance the practice of medicine for the benefit of patients and practitioners worldwide.
American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine
http://www.aoasm.org/
The AOASM was formed to fulfill the mission of a branch of the healing arts profession, which utilizes a holistic, comprehensive approach to the prevention, diagnosis and management of sport and exercise-related injuries, disorders, dysfunctions and disease processes.
American Osteopathic Association
http://www.osteopathic.org
The AOA site is friendly to the general public. It contains up-to-date health information and everything one would want to know about osteopathic medicine - with an option to find a DO in your area. Includes information on the osteopathic philosophy. There is even information available in Spanish.
Association of Military Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons (AMOPS)
www.amops.org
The Association of Military Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons (AMOPS) was established in 1977 to serve and represent osteopathic physicians in the uniformed services. AMOPS focuses the attention of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) on the unique aspects of practice in the Uniformed Services by the more than 2,200 Doctors of Osteopathy meeting our nation's military and federal medical needs throughout the world.
MomMD
http://mommd.com
This is the leading online community for women in medicine. Women at all stages of their medical careers can find information and resources to balance and enrich their professional and personal lives.
National Society for Nontraditional Premedical and Medical Students
http://www.oldpremeds.net/
The National Society for Nontraditional Premedical & Medical Students, Inc., better known by its website name, OldPreMeds.org or simply OPM, is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) professional/pre-professional society and educational conduit for nontraditional students who seek to become physicians. For those whose path to medicine is not the traditional high school to college to medical school, OPMs mission is to assist and advise on how to successfully prepare, apply and succeed in both medical schools and residency training programs.
Osteopathic Center for Children
http://www.osteopathiccenter.org/
Osteopathic Center for Children is an ambulatory clinical center for the treatment of children and their families. The Osteopathic Center also is a teaching affiliate of the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Western University of Health Sciences.
Osteopathic Research Center
http://www.hsc.unt.edu/ORC/
The ORC was founded in 2002 to foster nationwide collaborative research on the efficacy of osteopathic manipulative medicine. Although osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) is only one aspect of osteopathic medicine, it is a fundamental, distinctive element of osteopathic philosophy. This web site provides information about the organization, its mission, its partners, its products and services.
Student Doctor Network
http://www.studentdoctor.net
This comprehensive site provides an explanation of osteopathic and allopathic medicine and compares the two, provides osteopathic links, and includes a chat room where premed and medical students can post questions and have them answered by peers. It is also an informative site where pre-osteopathic students can ask questions and communicate with other osteopathic and pre-osteopathic students from all over the country.