OPP Facts Flashcards
1892
American School of Osteopathy (ASO) opens in Kirskvilles, MO
1893
Nettie Bolles is first woman on osteopathic faculty (Still’s committment to women’s rights)
1898
Second College Founded - SS Still College of Osteopathy (Des Moines)
1899
3rd college - Philly (PCOM)
1899
William Smith, MD - ASO faculty - first to delineate arterial system with X-rays (first x-ray west of Mississippi)
1900
American College of Osteoatphic Medicine and Surgery is founded (forerunner of CCOM)
1916
Kansas City opens (no new college until 1969)
1969
MSU-COM opens. First state funded
1970
Most change to “College of Osteopathic Medicine
2013
Marian’s first class
2017
33 COM’s at 48 locations in 31 states
2017
MU-COM graduates first class
First state to license DO’s? When? Why?
Vermont; 1896; Vermont legislator was treated by HL Spangler, DO who introduced legislation in 1895
WNL
“Within Normal Limits” or “We never looked”
1935
Forerunner of National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners becomes first board for licensing physicians
2002
Louisiana becomes final state to accept NBOME licensing exam, COMLEX as pathway for granting practice rights
2002
All 50 states and Distric of Columbia accept National Board
1936
Applied Academy of Osteopathy is formed from the Osteopathic Manipulative Therapeutic and Clinical Reasearch association.
Founded to develop education program to study scient and improve health care management with emphasis on palpatory diagnosis and OMT
1944
AAO goes form “Applied Academy of Osteopathy” to “American Academy of Osteopathy”
1959
Dr. Angus Cathie forms first undergraduate American Academy of Osteopathy (UAAO) at PCOM which becomes the SAAO.
AAO Headquarters
Pyramids in Indianapolis
Allopathy
Use drugs to create environemtn disease can’t hand;e
Osteopathy
Body can heal itself, remove impediment and it is fixed
