We did make a difference in Chicago...

[BklynWill]

our voice spoke for something...

-from The D.O. Magazine. Compromise on match resolution opens door to further study. V.46, N.10, P.52

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[dr.z]

our voice spoke for something...

-from The D.O. Magazine. Compromise on match resolution opens door to further study. V.46, N.10, P.52

 

[MikeyLu2010]

fancy words for.."heall no..come bother us again in a year"

 

[jonb12997]

i still think they're just delaying the inevitable... my feeling is that the ones that don't want the explore the issue are the ones that are from the group that were severily discriminated against by the MDs (got to say though, i don't really blame them for feeling the way they do with what they had to deal with)... once those of us that are in school/residency move into power in the AOA I think we'll see things really change.

 

[DarkWingDuck]

is the amendment to allow md and do students to match at the same time. The article really doesn't say anything about what resolution 300 is.

 

[(nicedream)]

is the amendment to allow md and do students to match at the same time. The article really doesn't say anything about what resolution 300 is.

It's the combined match.

 

[Old_Mil]

In our state, the state medical society/chapter of the AMA has quite a few more DO members than does the state chapter of the AOA. There are many ways around an organization that is unresponsive to the needs of its constituency, especially in the field we are entering.

 

[DrMom]

I think that there is value in having a national Osteopathic professional organization. My hope is that the current *generation* of DO students will be able to make some headway. I understand where the views of the older DOs comes from, but I think that it is detrimental to the profession to maintain a defensive, 1960s thought pattern.

 

[Old_Mil]

I think that there is value in having a national Osteopathic professional organization.

I don't disagree. Certainly, if a DO wants to join the AOA and try and have a positive effect through that organization, they should be applauded. Furthermore, there will always be the 10% of DOs who practice OMM or make it the focus of their practice. These specialists will need a national organization to represent them and the AOA is the logical choice to fill this role. For the remaining 90% of us, it may be a bit of a different story however.

When doctors in our state sit down and issue standardized guidelines for the practice of medicine, or ethical guidelines for the same it isn't the state chapter of the AOA that makes these decisions. Coming from a heavily unionized industry, I firmly believe in having a vote and a voice. In organized medicine, the group that provides this is the AMA and the fact of the matter is that the AOA, no matter how hard they try, will never supplant or equal the AMA in this regard. I firmly believe that a DO who doesn't join and get involved is doing themselves and their career a disservice.

Yes there is history here, and some of it is unpleasant. That having been said, there is also a future. I am going to have to practice in that future and hope that my future colleagues would like to have just as much of a say in that future as I would.