Greeneyedmonster,
Actually it is Resolution 42 and you all can see the exceptions to it on the AOA web page at:
<a href="http://www.aoa-net.org" target="_blank">www.aoa-net.org</a>
Look around a little there and you will find it. The previous posters are correct, you can do an Allopathic Residency (ACGME)in any of the 5 states that currently require an AOA rotating internship, however, if you want to practice in one of those 5 states you must have AOA accreditation for having completed Traditional Osteopathic Intership.
Resolution 42 allows an individual, who meets some incredibly draconian standards, to get their ACGME accredited residency accredited by the AOA. Even then, those choosing to get AOA approval have extra work to complete the AOA accreditation.
I respectfully disagree with John DO, however, I think the way of the rotating internship is the way of the dinosaur as employed by the osteopathic profession. Instead of being used as a teaching tool it is used as a method of acquiring cheap labor. Currently there will be an estimated 2700 students who will be graduated this spring of osteopathic medical schools. There are only 2500 Rotating internship spots available and only 1989 of those spots are paid.
I also agree that many of the ACGME residencies currently require their first year residents to do a rotating internship style instruction, so what besides the OMT is the Osteopathic Student in an ACGME residency losing? The only conclusion that I come to again is cheap labor, so why not give dual accreditation?...b/c the profession is dependant upon cheap labor even though they don't have enough rotating internships available (paid/unpaid) to take care of all of the graduates...and we're adding two more schools.
The answer is simple...dual accreditation with a weekend of CME hours required on manipulation/yearly, open the AOA with all privledges to any student graduated from an osteopathic institution, and watch the conroversy over the rotating internship fade into the sunset.
Sweaty Paul