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In late 2020, the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners announced that the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination (COMLEX-USA) Level 1 examination would discontinue reporting numeric scores, only providing a Pass/Fail designation. The authors of this study generated a series of five hypotheses to investigate the perceived impact of the transition to Pass/Fail scoring.

The role of lifestyle has taken a renewed importance in disease prevention and chronic disease management. Osteopathic medicine has long focused on comprehensive, holistic care for our patients, and the tenets support the role of lifestyle medicine (LM) in osteopathic clinical care. In this commentary, the authors make the argument for incorporating LM more formally into the clinical curriculum at colleges of osteopathic medicine and will draw parallels with these two programs.

Following the transition to a single graduate medical education accreditation system in 2020, leaders at American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) were interested in learning more about the research being done about osteopathic medical education leading up to that point in time. The objective of this scoping review was to identify trends in undergraduate and graduate osteopathic medical education and to determine where this information was being disseminated and the institutions who were creating the content.

This study aims to investigate recent match rate trends in orthopedic surgery within the past 5 years, and also to forecast match trends for both MD and DO students to further analyze the future projection of the orthopedic surgery match.

This review aims to determine how US premedical osteopathic and allopathic students gain clinical experiences and extracurricular activities that enhance their application and increase their chances of admission into a medical school of their choice.

The objectives of this study were to determine the effect that a Program Director for Osteopathic Medical Education role has through measures of the numbers of programs achieving Osteopathic Recognition and standards met, as well as the perceived ‘helpfulness’ of the role based on surveys of program leadership.

The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of osteopathic recognition on retaining and applying osteopathic principles in a mixed cohort of residents in a single-center setting.

The objectives of this study are to determine the frequency of POCUS use by Midwestern University Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine graduates and to assess how a 4-year longitudinal ultrasound curriculum may enhance the abilities of these graduates to perform and interpret ultrasound imaging in specific residency programs.

The objective of this study is to determine whether a lack of preclinical exposure to and knowledge of urology impacts osteopathic medical student’s decision to pursue urology as a specialty.

This study analyzed the self-reported confidence of graduating seniors in the United States osteopathic medical schools in their current ability to prescribe safely and independently.