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Osteopathic
Physician
in Europe (EROP-definition):
A fully licensed medical
doctor with or without
a medical specialty.
Additional postgraduate
academic and professional training in OM
leading to the granting
of a diploma.
The acquisition of diagnostic and therapeutic skills
for OM requires an educational training program of
at least 700 hours within a minimum time period of 4
years.
The educational standard in OM
requires knowledge and skills in all three
osteopathic areas, the parietal, the visceral and
the cranio-sacral
systems.
The osteopathic physician
completes and broadens the standard medicine in the
context of an integrated patient care. He emphasizes
both an evidence based and patient
centred
medicine.
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