Incorporating a Mandatory Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) curriculum in clinical clerkships: impact on student attitudes toward using OMM.

Context: As the osteopathic medical profession grows and enrollment in osteopathic graduate medical education falls, it is important to ensure that all osteopathic medical students receive adequate training in osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM).

Objective: To determine if incorporating mandatory exposure to OMM into third- and fourth-year clinical clerkships favorably influences osteopathic medical students' comfort with the use of OMM.

Methods: All participants attended a 1-hour mandatory didactic lecture and a 3-hour practical clinic every week as part of their rotations at Wilson Memorial Medical Center.

Postpartum outcomes in supine delivery by physicians vs nonsupine delivery by midwives.

Context: Clinically preferred maternal position during childbirth has varied between supine and nonsupine over time and from patient to patient. Preferred maternal birthing position is coming under increasing scrutiny.

Objective: To compare postpartum maternal and infant outcomes resulting from supine and nonsupine positions maintained during the second stage of labor.