Aligning the Interests of Osteopathic and Allopathic Teachers of Family Medicine

Source: http://www.annfammed.org/cgi/content/full/4/2/182

From its inception, the osteopathic profession has been smaller in numbers than its allopathic counterpart and has worked hard to secure its place in American medicine. Over the past 100 years or so these efforts have produced a profession that is highly competent and growing, with 23 colleges of osteopathic medicine at present and more in development. This growth phase has coincided with other sweeping changes in the financing of American medicine that have led to mergers and acquisitions of hospitals that have all but eliminated many hospitals that were previously osteopathic. This has reduced the options for graduates of osteopathic medical schools to acquire internships and residencies in osteopathic hospitals.

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