Sep 07, 2024

Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine 2023-2024

Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine 2023-2024 [Archived Catalog]

OCOM 8125 - Osteopathic Medicine, Manipulation and Principles 3B

Osteopathic Medicine, Manipulation and Principles 3B continues OCOM 8120 as a blended course that teaches students to incorporate osteopathic principles and practice into care of patients in hospitalized or ambulatory settings. Educational activities rely on the application and integration of foundational concepts of osteopathic medicine in both small and large group settings. Student are expected to participate in large group learning sessions and then demonstrate both osteopathic integration and manipulative skills related to specific patient presentations while in a small group lab setting.

Credit Hours: 1

Course Outcomes

Students will be able to demonstrate techniques appropriate for chest pain, headache, low back pain, and abdominal pain for a patient presenting to the ER.
Students will be able to correlate the anatomy of children and the application of OMT for common pediatric medical conditions.
Students will be able to discuss the findings and mechanisms of injury for common cranial dysfunction.
Students will be able to discuss the physiological and anatomical changes that OB patients experience.
Students will be able to perform osteopathic techniques appropriate for OB patients for each trimester of pregnancy.
Students will be able to perform osteopathic techniques appropriate for pediatric patients.
Students will be able to discuss the history of osteopathic medicine to patients with psychiatric conditions.
Students will be able to perform required techniques on their assigned partner in the clinical site practice OMM lab.
Students will be able to apply the osteopathic models of care to patients encountered in OB, emergency medicine, pediatrics, and psychiatry.
Students will be able to collect data and to write a case report on patient of their choosing.