How can I study osteopathy?

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I'm sorry to disturb you, I'm an Italian student at her last year of High School, I'm interested in studying osteopathy in England, but how can I do it? Is there an admission test? How can I get ready? Do I need specific marks? And how does a possible admission's test fit with the request of admission that I have to send to UCAS? The English school system is quite different from the Italian one, so I apologize for this big show of ignorance!
 
Unfortunately there's probably nobody on here that could really be of any help as American osteopathic physicians (Americans and Canadians make up the vast majority of the community here) and the American system are a whole different breed from the British.
 
English osteopathy is more analogous to Chriopractory rather than osteopathic medicine which is a medical degree.
 
Vane said:
I'm sorry to disturb you, I'm an Italian student at her last year of High School, I'm interested in studying osteopathy in England, but how can I do it? Is there an admission test? How can I get ready? Do I need specific marks? And how does a possible admission's test fit with the request of admission that I have to send to UCAS? The English school system is quite different from the Italian one, so I apologize for this big show of ignorance!
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If you wish to practice osteopathy in the UK, you must attend an approved training course (approved by the General Osteopathic Council) and register with the GOC once you are done with training. Approved programs lead to a Diploma in Osteopathy (D.O.) but some schools will also allow you to receive a Bachelor of Osteopathy and/or Masters of Osteopathy. There are a few programs that are affliated (validated) by a British University and will award a BSc (Hons) Osteopathy. Some you apply directly, while others you apply via UCAS.

Please contact the schools you are interested in for more information.
http://www.osteopathy.org.uk/practice/becoming-an-osteopath/training-courses/

Also realize that osteopathy that is taught in the UK, Europe, Australia, and everywhere else EXCEPT the United States is different from Osteopathic Medicine taught in the United States. You cannot practice osteopathy or osteopathic medicine in the US unless you graduate from an AOA approved school and have done some postgraduate residency training.
 
These people are the reason DOs have crappy international practice rights. Get you gone!
 
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