AOA Launches Multi-Year "DO Awareness Campaign"

I love this thread too much to stay lurking.

I'll be graduating in 2018, and IMO it is apparent that this a futile attempt by the AOA to maintain osteopathic medicine's identity, ie "treating the whole person" and "osteopathic principles" mantra in the midst of the ACGME merger.

As I've said before, the AOA is attempting to survive the merger by maintaining a "seperate, but equal" form of medical education. Most (All?) of the deans/leadership of osteopathic medical schools are AOA-trained and are members of osteopathic professional colleges.

In medical school, the only thing that distinguishes DO's from MD's is one two-hour class a week.
In practice, the two physicians are indistinguishable. Which leads to the point that if the distinguishing feature of DO schools, OMT, is not used by over 90% of DO school graduates, then why should there be a difference at all? Because the AOA is trying to keep their head above water and protect their brand. That's all we are- a brand that consistently funnels money into their system (COMLEX, osteopathic match, etc...)

Its gonna take ACGME trained DO's to propose the US Dept of Education to consolidate US undergraduate medical education under the LCME. Too bad we are too worried about our next exam/boards/clinicals to do anything about it!

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AOA Launches Multi-Year "DO Awareness Campaign"