Originally posted by roesnerna:
dostudent,
Can you tell me how you feel about the OP&P program at UHS. THis is a big factor in my decision on which school I want to attend and I would like to know how the students feel about it.
roesnerna,
Almost any D.O. student or physician will tell you that Kirksville is the manipulation capital of the free world. That being said, I feel that I am getting an excellent manipulative education at UHS. I chose osteopathic medicine in part because of manipulation and it will definitely be apart of my practice. As a first year I am primarily learning diagnostic and palpatory skills, but we have been exposed to many soft tissue and muscle energy techniques. By the end of the first year I will have had a large amount of treatment education (i.e. HVLA). We have OPP lectures 3-5 times a week and lab every Monday for 2 hours. Most all the study rooms on campus have OPP tables and you are expected to practice with classmates. We take an OPP final every 12 weeks with a comprehensive OPP final at the end of the year. The finals are skills based and require you to perform treatment and assessments. UHS has an excellent OPP staff that is always available outside of class. I have found that there is always this "group" of students that are hard-core manipulation and you can pick up a lot of good techniques from them as well as the older osteopaths that help out with the lab.
Hope this helps