Is preventative medicine and osteopathic tenet?

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Crap, the title should read "Is preventative medicine an osteopathic tenet?"

I've read in a few places that it was, but I'm a little confused about this. Isn't preventative medicine a tenet of all kinds of medicine. How is it different in osteopathic medicine as compared to allopathic medicine?

There's an essay that wants me to talk about which tenet I relate to the most, and I'd like to talk about preventative medicine, but unlike OMM or a holistic mind and body approach which are exclusively osteopathic, preventative medicine seems like it would be important to any approach to medicine.

Obviously everyone agrees that it is easier to prevent disease than to try and treat it after the fact.

 

[WedgeDawg]

I'm not a DO so maybe I'm wildly off target here, but I don't think that DO and MD tenets are different in the slightest. Functionally, they're equivalent, so it's really a silly question to ask applicants in general.

Anyways, yeah, preventative medicine is a tenet of both DO and MD medicine. However, you could probably get away with talking about it as an essay subject for this prompt. It doesn't say the tenet has to be an exclusive tenet of osteopathy to the exclusion of MD (or maybe it does, but I doubt it).

 

[Dr. Death]

There are 4 tenets of osteopathic medicine. They tell me them at least once a week but I have no idea what any of them are so google this.

 

[Marrowist]

These are the tenants you seek...
http://www.osteopathic.org/inside-aoa/about/leadership/Pages/tenets-of-osteopathic-medicine.aspx

 

[NecrotizingFasciitis]

IMO any decent physician will advocate for preventative medicine. That being said, I think DOs more bluntly advocate for it. Just my two cents on the preventative aspect.