Creating an osteopathic community with education at its core

Professional identity in osteopathy: A scoping review of peer-reviewed primary osteopathic research

“…Osteopathy has yet to explore many aspects of PI and PID. However, discussion papers on "osteopathic" values, philosophy, principles and education [25,40,49,52,96,100,109,110], as well as the few qualitative studies into OPI [23,24] have paved the way for further research. Further exploration of osteopathic socialisation may reveal impacts, both positive and negative, on students' developing OPI.…”

“…Within osteopathy, however, little is published about OPI or its development (OPID). Initiatives in the International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine (IJOM) have undoubtedly raised the profile of osteopathic education research [39][40][41], but this has often focused on practical issues such as student assessment [42][43][44] and learning resources [45][46][47]. A search of IJOM, from inception to present, revealed only three examples of peer-reviewed primary research with explicit OPI focus [23,24,48], although there are some discussion papers [39,[49][50][51][52][53].…”

Professor Stephen Tyreman 1952 – 2018

“…Stephen published widely in journals focussed on philosophy and health care [2,3,6,8] and was a stalwart supporter of the International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine [4,5,7]. Always willing to review, delivering seminal publications on osteopathy and guest editing a special issue on Osteopathic Education in 2013 with Dr Tyler Cymet from the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine [10].…”