Why do UK Osteopathy Schools Have Such Shockingly Low Standards?
UK-trained osteopaths like to think of themselves as fully-qualified front-line "healing professionals", but how can that be since their education is clearly sub-professional? Their training was until recently shorter than the four years required of plumbers. Today, a typical Osteopathy course is five years of part-time study (while the student is working elsewhere full-time!) or four years "full time". "Cranial Osteopathy" specialists get all of twenty days extra training conducted on weekends. Examination of Osteopathic school curricula reveals that their medical/scientific training is "conversational" in nature — inferior to that required of university-trained Registered Nurses. ie UK-trained osteopaths can talk the talk, but they can't walk the walk. For this reason, no (Western?) government trusts UK-trained osteopaths with sharp objects. Osteopaths cannot prescribe effective medications. They're prohibited by law from doing anything really effective. In fact, there's nothing much they can do, except swivel arms, palpate skulls, knead livers — (though, in their defence, it must be said that osteopaths can perhaps provide a good massage). Any genuine advice for healthy living that osteopaths provide is better dispensed by an RN Health Visitor or Registered Dietitian who is not likely to steer patients to a homeopath. So what is it specifically that UK-trained osteopaths do??? What justifies their fees or their white coat? Perhaps the problem is the low quality of the students accepted into osteopathic training. UK Schools of Osteopathy have far lower entrance standards than do Medical Schools in the UK. Generally one good "A" Level is good enough for matriculation to a UK School of Osteopathy, whereas even three excellent A-levels do not guarantee admission to a UK School of Medicine. Medical School + post-grad Physician qualification requires many years of difficult full-time training. Osteopathic training can be done part-time on weekends... One notorious UK-trained osteopath who visits this forum admits he had no A-levels at all when he applied to Osteopathy School. He left school at the age of sixteen. (He claims he later took some night classes to reach the low entrance requirement of an Osteopathy course). For him, the vocational choices he had in life were either Osteopathy or a career in Fish & Chips. Here's a typical UK Osteopathy degree program for people (losers?) who are currently "working full-time [or] looking for a career change": http://collegeofosteopaths.ac.uk/bsc_hons_osteopath/bsc_hons_osteopathy.html
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Because it's not a propper job / career/ science.
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Its typically for those can't handle real medical school. Wanna-be doctors and I wouldn't trust one to ever care for any of my loved ones. I'll take a real doctor, thank you.
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Well I looked into this years ago. The part time programs work like this.5 year program the first 3 years you attend lectures at weekends and use holidays sabaticclas etc to attend your clinic hours (observation). 2 weeks of the year you attend 7 days a week for each of those 5 years. The last 2 years require 400 hours and 600hours clinic respectively. You are expected to give up work to do the last 2 years or go part time as you cannot do your clinic hours otherwise. It requires a lot of commitment and sounds very difficult. May I suggest the asker gets good at what he does himself and stops criticising others or instead buy that penis extension.
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you mean "low" as in not equating to what marvelous things are taught to medical students that makes going to the doctor 6000 times more likely to result in death than by use of a firearm?
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