INTRODUCTION With the recent merger of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) a heightened pressure for publication may become evident. Our objective was to determine whether there was a gap in the type of both medical degree designation and advanced degree designation among authorship in three United States-based academic...

BACKGROUND Self-medication and non-doctor prescribing of drugs is common in developing countries. Complementary and alternative medications, especially herbs, are also commonly used. There are few studies on the use of these medications in Pokhara Valley, Western Nepal. METHODS Previously briefed seventh semester medical students, using a semi-structured questionnaire, carried out the study o...

Purpose In an effort to better understand why individuals use complementary and alternative medicine a single whole systems provider-based modality was selected, one with the potential for use as an alternative to allopathic care for a broad array of conditions – Traditional East Asian Medicine (TEAM). A survey was conducted with a sample of individuals who had used TEAM examining their motives...

Osteopathic physicians (D.O.s) are licensed, as are allopathic physicians (M.D.s), to give complete medical care to their patients. Osteopathic physicians are trained in schools of osteopathic medicine where they complete the same basic course work as do allopathic physicians. In addition, they are taught to diagnose and relieve pain through the use of manipulative therapy, which is a hands-on ...

Within Nepal, geographic, social, and economic barriers greatly limit access to allopathic health care. The country therefore offered the opportunity to evaluate the effect of antibiotic accessibility (as measured by allopathic medicine consumption) on antibiotic resistance in the normal intestinal flora. The aerobic gram-negative fecal flora of 33-34 healthy adults from each of 3 villages with...

Western allopathic physicians working internationally might encounter allopathic colleagues who endorse local healing practices that are not scientifically supported and, hence, might pose harm to patients. Respect for the autonomy of local physicians and patients thus can conflict with the ethical principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence. In such a situation, it is advisable for Western al...

CONTEXT With the recent merger of the American Osteopathic Association and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, new standards may be established for scholarly activity criteria and designation for each specialty. OBJECTIVE To determine the percentage of osteopathic physicians on editorial boards in general and specialty medical journals and to compare the participation of...