Parental Leave: What Do Physician Societies Provide for Their Employees?

Introduction: Parental leave yields significant health benefits for parents and children. While many medical associations endorse parental leave, it is unknown what parental leave they provide for their employees.

Objective: To assess parental leave policies of national physician societies for their employees including paid versus unpaid and parity between birth mothers and non-birthing parents.

Osteopathic Medical Student Practice of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment During School Break.

Context: Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) is integral in osteopathic medical education. The timing of the loss of interest, leading to decreasing clinical use, is unclear. Osteopathic medical students' activities during laboratories or rotations are determined by laboratory or preceptor requirements and do not characterize students' interest in or how they value OMT.

Preliminary findings on the use of osteopathic manipulative treatment: outcomes during the formation of the practice-based research network, DO-Touch.NET.

Context: Few studies have assessed the use of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) and subsequent patient-reported outcomes.

Objective: To assess the current use of OMT and associated patient-reported outcomes.

Design: A retrospective medical record review and a prospective observational study.

Osteopathic manipulative treatment for the treatment of hospitalized premature infants with nipple feeding dysfunction.

Premature newborns and infants are usually required to successfully transition from gavage to nipple feeding using breast or bottle before discharge from the hospital. This transition is frequently the last discharge skill attained. Delayed acquisition of this skill may substantially prolong hospital length of stay.

Characteristics of pediatric patients seen in medical school-based osteopathic manipulative medicine clinics.

Context: Manual medicine--specifically osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT)--is commonly used in treating patients aged 18 years or younger. However, no published reports have described characteristics of this patient population or the conditions for which OMT is used with these patients. To better counsel parents, train physicians and other healthcare providers, and prioritize research, an improved understanding of the use of OMT in children is needed.