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Started by benlinus
During interviews, I've been asked what I know about the profession, etc. Having read Gevitz and some of Still's work helped me become familiar with the field's history, struggles, etc. It'll help give perspective for secondaries, too. 👍
The book CB mentioned, "The DOs Osteopathic Medicine in America" by gevitz is a good read to get a background on osteopathic medicine.
I was asked about the differences between chiropractic treatment and Osteopathic manipulative treatment.
I set myself up to be asked that question though, so it was fair game.
I set myself up to be asked that question though, so it was fair game.
I read Gevitz prior to interviews (a little too historical in places) which helped give me put the profession in context. However, I don't remember ever being asked any specific questions along those lines. The closest was "Which Osteopathic tenet do you agree with the most?" or something like that. You'll get a good chunk of interviewers who are PhDs or even MDs who couldn't care less who Sutherland was.
Yea, I figured it out via my "quick wikipedia search." But thank you for being ever so helpful, mod.
HAHA. Leave it to a DO to be an undercover kick ass agent for CTU.
Come to think of it, remember that episode where Jack Bauer was hand cuffed and strapped to a chair, but he killed a guy by sinking his teeth into the dude's jugular vein and carotid arteries? That was probably a modified OMM technique.
That is the guy. He invented cranial while he was sitting in county for a DUI.
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I know how you struggle with Google sometimes. And you're welcome.
Learn as much as you can about AT Still. His name popped up more than a couple of times when I interviewed.
I would be careful about bringing up Sutherland, though. Cranialsacral manipulation is pretty controversial. Critics of osteopathic medicine often cite cranialsacral as being the least proven diagnostic/treatment modality in OMT. Pretty much every neurologist and neurosurgeon (even DO's) I've come across has told me they believe Sutherland's theories to be hogwash.
I would be careful about bringing up Sutherland, though. Cranialsacral manipulation is pretty controversial. Critics of osteopathic medicine often cite cranialsacral as being the least proven diagnostic/treatment modality in OMT. Pretty much every neurologist and neurosurgeon (even DO's) I've come across has told me they believe Sutherland's theories to be hogwash.
Gevitz is all you really need to be successful during an interview. Reading Still's works is going to be difficult without some context of OMM techniques, which you're not expected to have during an interview. The only exposure you should have to OMM techniques that may be a good discussion point during your interview is from your shadowing experience, but, again, you're not expected to reference specific techniques, etc...
Internal or external carotid? Or common carotid? And if the common carotid, what other structures are located in the sheath that could be compromised? One of them is the jugular, but which jugular? And where does this jugular drain into?
What now?
Prepare to be asked this at your interviews.
How did you explain it?
