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system and uniform pathway of preparation. we likely could have.”
The Osteopathic Principle Committee will sit on the ACGME to Armbruster and Madson first realized their shared interest in fos-
ensure osteopathic skills and philosophies are distinguished and sup- tering the tenets of the field through their work in health policy in
ported at the graduate medical education level. the Texas Osteopathic Medical Association.
“If we aren’t intentional about integrating osteopathic philosophy The HOHF has previously supported UIWSOM in 2018 with a
and osteopathy manipulation in all aspects of medicine, we are $50,000 grant that helped make students’ attendance at develop-
going to lose our heritage,” Madson said. mental trainings possible. UIWSOM learners participated in medical
The Osteopathic Recognition Program, an added qualification conferences like the American Academy of Osteopathic Convoca-
residency that programs can obtain by offering residents osteopathic tion, American College of Osteopathic Physicians, AOA annual
training and assessment, will help DOs receive specific training in conferences and Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT) train-
their graduate medical education. ings in fascial distortion.
“I am hoping to use some of this funding from the HOHF to “We are a young profession,” Madson said. “We have to do a lot
support a DO to work on Osteopathic Recognition Accreditation of training in leadership development so that we can really have
for the ACGME residency program we help start,” Madson said. high quality schools [in the future].”
UIWSOM would have a DO faculty member develop requirements One of her methods for sustaining osteopathic principles through-
for the program and oversee the training for the osteopathic track. out UIWSOM learners’ professional careers, is teaching them to nat-
“There would be osteopathic recognition in family medicine, in- urally think in a way that fosters holistic patient treatment.
ternal medicine, psychiatry, all the specialties,” Madson said. “There “Rather than treating osteopathic principles and OMT as a sep-
would be certain qualifications they would have to meet to receive arate entity, I think integrating it throughout everything you learn
the recognition, like OMM and mindfulness with mind, body, spirit. about medicine, will show learners how to actually use it.” Madson
… Funding from the HOHF helps us get this started earlier than said. “This grant allows us to do just that.”

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