Thee AOA Bureau of Osteopathic History and Identity is conducting its seventh annual history essay competition offering three awards, ranging from $5,000 for first place, $3,000 for second place, and $2,000 for third place.
Participants should focus on the following five core principles selected for the this year's competition:
Core Principle 3—The political and cultural factors that shaped American medical licensure and jurisprudence to allow for the organizational and institutional growth of osteopathy in its formative period. (Note: In developing its core principles, the bureau used the term osteopathy to refer to the profession during the period in which most DOs practiced strictly manipulative medicine.)
Core Principle 10—The difficulty of DOs gaining the same social status and visibility as MDs despite DOs coming ever closer to MDs in terms of training, as well as in terms of their diagnostic and therapeutic armamentaria.
Core Principle 13—The factors leading to and the consequences of the merger of DOs with MDs in the state of California and the unanticipated effects on the profession’s solidarity elsewhere in the United States.
Core Principle 15—The causes of the tremendous growth of osteopathic predoctoral education from the late 1960s through today and both the positive and negative consequences of this expansion on the osteopathic medical profession.
Core Principle 18—The role of the “financing of health care” in changing the practice of osteopathic physicians, including its impact on both the number of osteopathic hospitals and the number of osteopathic graduate medical education programs.
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