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As healthcare transforms with artificial intelligence (AI) tools offering enhanced diagnostic capabilities, predictive analytics, and administrative efficiency, there is a risk that overreliance on empirical data may undermine the osteopathic patient care. This commentary examines how physicians can ethically integrate AI systems while preserving osteopathic medicine’s humanistic core.

Clinical research plays a crucial role in advancing medical knowledge and contributing to the resume of medical students attempting to match into a residency, so the creation of sustainable and effective research opportunities within medical education is paramount. The authors describe a template that they've created to assist osteopathic medical students conduct streamlined, scalable, and cost-effective clinical research at their institution, which they believe can be implemented at other COMs.

Patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) and hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD) often complain of palpitations, presyncope/syncope, attributable to postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). This study aimed to evaluate the utility of implantable loop recorders in diagnosing and/or excluding arrhythmias not attributable to POTS in symptomatic patients with EDS and HSD.

Based on the recommendations of the Special Commission on Osteopathic Medical Licensure Assessment, the NBOME established the Core Competency Capstone for Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (C3DO). The objectives of this study were to describe the assessment and to ascertain the feasibility of administering it at multiple colleges of osteopathic medicine.

This commentary discusses areas of potential legal vulnerability for clinicians utilizing large language model artificial intelligence (AI) through review of past case law pertaining to third-party medical guidance and reviews the patchwork of current regulations relating to medical malpractice liability in AI.

Chest pain is one of the most common emergency medicine complaints in the United States, yet no reliable physical examination finding exists to help differentiate cardiac chest pain (CCP) from noncardiac chest pain (non-CCP). This is a diagnostic accuracy study of the sternal brace, a novel physical examination maneuver to rule out cardiac-related chest pain from non-CCP.

The goal of this study is to evaluate the novel material Onyx as a viable material utilized in reusable total knee arthroplasty instrumentation sets utilizing traditional steam sterilization as the sterilization method.

Previous studies have shown that the average number of finger-taps during a 10-second interval can be utilized to distinguish between patients with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) and healthy controls. In this study, the authors used an iPad-based tool to quantify simple reaction times in asymptomatic subjects.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, essential in-person electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings became unfeasible, while patients continued to suffer from cardiac conditions. To circumvent these challenges, a cardiology clinic transitioned to a remote real-time outpatient cardiac telemetry (ROCT) service. The goal of this study is to test the hypothesis that at-home ROCT is an effective method of providing ECG monitoring to symptomatic patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The authors propose a novel approach for inflatable penile prosthesis reservoir placement involving gentle dilation of the retropubic space using a Foley catheter balloon.