5-States' AOA Internship Requirement?

[SomeDoc]

Sorry if this sounds ignorant, but is the AOA internship requirement for the five states set by the medical licensing board of the state, or by the AOA?

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[InductionAgent]

Sorry if this sounds ignorant, but is the AOA internship requirement for the five states set by the medical licensing board of the state, or by the AOA?

Good question. The "five states" requirements are all set by the Osteopathic licensing boards in those states (which is different from the allopathic ("medical") licensing boards in those states.) Not all states have separate osteopathic licensing boards, and not all osteopathic licensing boards have the AOA internship requirements.

 

[JonnyG]

Sorry if this sounds ignorant, but is the AOA internship requirement for the five states set by the medical licensing board of the state, or by the AOA?

internship is dead in PA. wellw ith this coming match

 

[DrMom]

internship is dead in PA. wellw ith this coming match

The end of internship starting in 2008 is somewhat a misconception. There is a difference in how PGY1s will be managed in their training programs and how they are counted in program numbers. There should be more rotations in your specialty (formerly known as fast-track or emphasis internships), which is great.

None of that necesarily means that anything will change with state requirements of DO internship for licensure.

Now, Oklahoma is one of the "5 states" and we don't actually have a requirement of a DO internship. The licensure board does, however, require that certain rotations be covered if you did an MD PGY1.

 

[Dr JPH]

internship is dead in PA. wellw ith this coming match

Untrue.

Nomenclature has changed, thats about it.

 

[EM2BE]

Untrue.

Nomenclature has changed, thats about it.

I misunderstood this then. So those 5 states will still require the rotating internship year?

 

[SomeDoc]

RE: internship restructuring. The meat and potatoes is in the pdf on the page.

https://www.do-online.org/index.cfm?au=S&PageID=sir_main

This should be a sticky.

 

[RockfordWF]

Sorry if this sounds ignorant, but is the AOA internship requirement for the five states set by the medical licensing board of the state, or by the AOA?

STATE

 

[misery]

None of that necesarily means that anything will change with state requirements of DO internship for licensure.

True, but the licensing boards will have increased pressure to change as the rotating internship dissolves and people move into specialty internships. There will simply be less places to do the internships in the way they were done in the past. Our Surgery Chair, said basically that this is the AOA's way of forcing the licensing boards to change the requirement. He said he thought the requirement would be changed in all states by 2011.