EDUCATION INNOVATION

New pocket reference guide promotes OMM fundamentals

By Angelina Young

Third-year osteopathic medical students have something new in their pockets during clinical rotations: OMM Quick Cards.

The CORE Osteopathic Principles and Practices Committee (COPPC) developed the content of these pocket-sized, fold-out guides to help residents integrate AOA core competencies into their clinical practice. According to the committee, the OMM Quick Card is the first of its kind.

Stevan Walkowski, D.O. (’89), chair of COPPC, describes the publication as “a reference manual, not a solution-based manual … I hope it serves as a refresher for OMM skills that need a little dusting off and as a resource to think about using OMM with patients that they may not have considered in the past.”

The OMM Quick Cards, produced with technical assistance provided by the OU-COM Office of Communication, have been distributed to all third-year osteopathic medical students nationally, and will soon be distributed to all CORE residents, faculty, program directors and DMEs.