What do you lose by having OMM Labs?

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In DO, it seems you spend at least a few hours each week in OMM lab, whereas MD schools don't. What do MD schools do with that time that DO's don't? More detail in classes, longer anatomy labs, other?

Disclaimer: this isn't to insinuate OMM is a waste of time, just wondering where that additional time comes from?

 

[ciestar]

Study time

 

[Angus Avagadro]

In DO, it seems you spend at least a few hours each week in OMM lab, whereas MD schools don't. What do MD schools do with that time that DO's don't? More detail in classes, longer anatomy labs, other?

Disclaimer: this isn't to insinuate OMM is a waste of time, just wondering where that additional time comes from?

3 hrs a week can easily be filled with fluff courses like medical jurisprudence professionalism, etc

 

[MustyElbow]

Our OMM lab is 2 hours once a week. It's definitely not the worst time commitment in the world. As previous poster said, that's plenty of time for fluff courses or something similar, or honestly, just study time.

 

[Isoval]

Sanity

 

[Ho0v-man]

Mine was 4hrs/week. After first semester, everyone just studies through it for other classes.

 

[Tgfu34]

Mine is once a week for 4 hours. It is the most painful 4 hours of the week by far. Some people study other classes during that time, most pay attention. You just learn to manage your time so you can afford to dedicate 4 hours to it and still do fine in your classes.

 

[ERinspired]

Study time. But depending on how your OMM class is taught, you come out super solid in neuromuscular anatomy with minimal effort so look at the bright side 🙂

 

[Schwifty]

Disclaimer: this isn't to insinuate OMM is a waste of time, just wondering where that additional time comes from?

Comes out of study time, my school only does 2hr/week so its not bad, but when we have OMM practicals and have to practice/memorize stuff it gets annoying

 

[jurassicpark]

A few rounds of either : Halo, Call of Duty, or Battlefield

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

Brain cells

 

[Chibucks15]

It really isn't that bad. There's only been a couple times in 2 years where I felt like I didn't have enough time to complete other assignments, and I just used the 2 'skips' that our school gives us per semester. People love to complain about it but in all reality it isn't that hard and doesn't take THAT much time to learn. Before practicals, a few buddies and I would get together and work through stuff for 2 hours,and none of us had looked at the material outside of lab. We all never got short of an A in the class

 

[993444]

One of the osteopathic physicians I shadowed was telling me that D.O.'s are becoming much more popular amongst the general public because of the OMM treatments that some of them provide. What do you guys think?

 

[Chibucks15]

One of the osteopathic physicians I shadowed was telling me that D.O.'s are becoming much more popular amongst the general public because of the OMM treatments that some of them provide. What do you guys think?

I mean a lot of the MSK stuff helps a lot, I've had it done on me. However, it seems much more in the realm of physical therapy. However, a doc knowing it isn't a bad thing. Once you start talking about viscerosomatics and chapmans points though it loses usefulness really. Some patients swear by it, but people also swear by healing crystals.

The key is to selectively choose to learn things that can actually help, and just memorize then dump the iffy stuff. It really isn't as bad as its made out to be on here. I would prefer not to do it, but I'm partially here because I had fun in college so I wouldnt change it in the long run