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What a DO Can Do: Help Expand OGME
by  Martin S. Levine, DONo presence information  on 10/21/2011 10:23 AM

This year, 4,241 graduates earned their DO degrees.  But do you know how many OGME training positions were available for these graduates and other DOs participating in the AOA Match?  Just over 2,500.  By 2020, the osteopathic medical profession is projected to confer more than 5,600 DO degrees.  When it comes to postdoctoral training opportunities, it’s clear we have some work to do.
 
The AOA is doing its part to give future DOs more choices as they continue their education and training.  Last year alone, the Program and Trainee Review Council (PTRC) approved more than 40 new programs, adding approximately 360 training positions.  That’s in addition to the more than 280 new spots approved for existing programs.  At the PTRC’s most recent meeting in July, 13 new programs with nearly 100 training spots were approved along with 25 new positions in existing programs.
 
We also have the OGME Development Initiative in place to help address the training crisis.  Central to the Initiative is a corps of consultants who serve as resources for nonteaching hospitals interested in establishing OGME programs.  They answer questions ranging from Medicare funding, specialty college standards and accreditation.  This is where you can help by:

  • Promoting the Initiative and its services.  They are provided at no cost to nonteaching hospitals.
  • Letting us know of nonteaching hospitals in your communities that are interested in establishing residency programs.  You can email the information to OGMEDevelopment@osteopathic.org.

Won’t you help us tackle this critical issue?

Marty

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What a DO Can Do: Help Expand OGME

Dr. Bollard:

Thank you for your question, and it is great to hear you would like to help.

I am keenly aware of the loss of the osteopathic hospitals in North Jersey over the years. But, several osteopathic residencies have started. I have been involved in the family medicine programs at Christ and Overlook and the internal medicine program at Jersey City Medical Center. UMDNJ-SOM, KCOM, UNECOM and TouroCOM all have students in northern New Jersey hospitals and are looking to start residencies.

As to your question, any hospital is a potential site for OGME or also a dual or parallel program but yes, the program itself would need to be accredited by the AOA, which is the only accrediting body for osteopathic training programs. I offer two suggestions, which I want to reiterate from my original post:

1. If you know of a hospital(s) that might be interested in establishing a training program, let us know by emailing the information to OGMEDevelopment@osteopathic.org. We’d be happy to reach out to the leadership.

2. If you know of someone at a hospital(s), plant the idea of developing an osteopathic training program. Let them know about the OGME Development Initiative and encourage them to contact us.

Remember, the Initiative and especially its consultants serve as resources to interested hospitals at no charge. If the consultant needs to travel to the hospital for a site visit, we pick up the cost.
Martin S. Levine, DO on 1/5/2012 12:51 PM

What a DO Can Do: Help Expand OGME

would be willing to help anyway I can. There are no Osteopathic Hospitals in Northern New Jersey anymore so it would have to be out of an Allopathic hospital is that an issue if it was joint accredidited??
Dave Bollard, DO on 11/29/2011 7:31 PM
 

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