The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association
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J Am Osteopath Assoc · Apr 1990
The pull toward the vacuum: osteopathic medical education in the 1980s.
During the 1980s, the two major influences in osteopathic medical education were the increasingly large number of new DOs seeking internships and residencies and the loss of training sites as a result of the shrinking osteopathic hospital network. Owing mainly to a declining interest in primary care by young MDs, allopathic postdoctoral program directors, particularly in primary care specialties, began to actively recruit osteopathic physicians. ⋯ It has reached the point where two out of every three DOs currently training in a primary care residency can be found in an allopathic program. If it continues, this pattern will have a significant impact on the character of osteopathic medical education.