DO type classes in MD schools?

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Are there any specific Allopathic schools that anyone knows of where Osteophathic type classes are either electives or mandatory? I hear that Brown focuses a lot on compassionate patient care...
 
the UNECOM OMT faculty teach courses at Harvard every year... but I think these are geared towards physicians and not students... not that they are excluding students.
 
DrMom said:
The only specifically Osteopathic coursework is OMM/OMT. I believe Harvard has some offerings, but I may be misremembering.
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You are right (as always Dr. Mom), Harvard does offer an elective in OMM.
 
OSUdoc08 said:
I'd hardly call it an "elective" --> It's a three weekend class. Hardly enough time to actually learn any OMM.

http://www.osher.hms.harvard.edu/e_events.asp

It is put on by UNE-COM.

If you can learn OMM in 3 weekends, then explain to me 4 semesters please..........
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You can learn the basics in that amount of time (after all, it isn't rocket science). Furthermore, Harvard IS an allopathic school--hence it would be absurd to think they would offer an OMM course equivalent to that of an OSTEOPATHIC school. It is an extra class that they can take on top of their regular curriculum--something I would call an elective class (perhaps an introduction to OMM). At my school, I took electives in Medical Spanish and Acupuncture. HOWEVER, by the end of these short semester courses, I was neither FLUENT in Spanish nor in the art of acupuncture--and yet they were still called elective courses!
 
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