Osteopathic Principles and Practice - Andi Wenner 

SOMA's OP&P programs are designed to meet the professional development needs of our student members. Osteopathic preceptors support our efforts to keep the future of osteopathic medicine strong. In response to recent surveys, which rank osteopathic principles and practice among the top five student priorities, several programs have been designed to promote OP&P on a national, local, and personal level.

New!! OMT Video Library - We are now calling for video submissions to be a part of our new online technique library.This is a way we can share some of the awesome and unique techniques that we learn at our individual COMs. Make it fun and creative and involve your friends! Email your technique videos back to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it along with a copy of the media release form (link soon to be inserted here). You can also check out the OMT video technique library on the ACOFP site here!

The Osteopathic Outreach Program has been developed as a resource to educate prospective osteopathic medical students and the public in general as to our unique osteopathic heritage. A Power Point presentation is available at each school which will be used as a resource. Our generation is in a unique position to define and communicate our professional identity to the world, one conversation at a time. The Osteopathic Outreach Program will allow first and second year students to obtain the materials needed to present osteopathic principles to local audiences. Students have the opportunity to develop their public speaking skills while learning one way to answer that often heard question: "What is a D.O.?"

The Osteopathic Outreach Program , click to download the power point presentation (read only).

The AT Still Memorial Scholarship has been designed by SOMA to provide up to a $500 stipend to select third and fourth year osteopathic medical students from one of the osteopathic medical schools. This scholarship is offered to those students who employ OMM as an integral component of patient care during clinical rotations. The purpose of this scholarship is to encourage osteopathic medical students to learn more about OMT and its integration into the daily care of patients.
Please visit the Scholarships page.

The OMT Review Topics, reprinted in the link below, consists of a synopsis of diagnosis and treatment of commonly used OMT, including soft tissue, sacral, as well as range of motion and myofascial techniques. The OMT Review Cards were originally produced as laminated cards, and their production was sponsored by COGMET, Consortium for Osteopathic Graduate Medical Education and Training.

OMT Review Topics , click here to download.

WEBSITE LINKS

Undergraduate American Academy of Osteopathy -  Membership in the UAAO offers many benefits including opportunities to practice and develop OMT skills, apply for scholarships, network with other students and doctors across the country, and attend the annual AAO Convocation.

DO-Online - set up your own web page, access the OPPORTUNITIES page to find AOA approved internships and residencies, and interact with other DO's on the bulletin board.

OSTMED.DR 

OSTMED.DR® is an osteopathic medicine digital library created by a partnership between Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM) and VTLS, Inc. in 2006. OSTMED.DR® builds upon OSTMED®, a bibliographic index to the literature of osteopathic medicine, providing access to citations as well as over 4,000 full text articles from selected resources. OSTMED.DR® aims to provide ready access to the current osteopathic literature and heretofore hard to find resources, including historical documents.

The Osteopathic Research Center (ORC) at the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC)