How does OMM fellowship/residency works?

[dollarbincommon]

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Hi everyone,

I just have a question about OMM and wish that someone out there can help me with this.

I read that you can do OMM as a fellowship. This is after residency right? and that OMM fellows teach the OMM part at osteopathic medical schools as TAs?

So, is OMM a residency program? If so, then why do people who are going into family/internal medicine/so on (primary care) do OMM? is this like a combined family medicine/OMM residency program? Do these people spend half of their residency doing family medicine and the other half doing OMM at medical schools?

If someone knows and is experienced, please help me out. I'm just trying to gather information about osteopathic medicine. Thanks in advance. 🙂

 

[LukeWhite]

Dollarbin,

There are fellowships that occur after residency, but I believe that the OMM fellowships you're referring to are pre-residency. You essentially spend three years of clinical science instead of two, one of those being an OMM year in which you instruct students, among other things.

I'm sure it varies from school to school, but the OMM fellows receive tuition compensation and I think in some cases a stipend for taking the extra year. Once you're done, you're free to do whatever you please just as you would on a standard track--there's no requirement that you go into OMM. One of the OMM fellows here is going into pediatrics, I think.