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Abstract:

Although there is a diversity of osteopathic-based emergency medicine organizations, there appears to be little recognition or understanding of these groups by allopathic-trained emergency physicians or their organizations. Since 1978, when the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) established its first osteopathic emergency medicine residency, there has been an essentially parallel evolution between allopathic and osteopathic groups who share the same specialty. Whether this parallel development has been willful or a historical accident is not the subject of our discussion. In this article, we set out to introduce the history and development of osteopathic emergency medicine training and its relationship to the allopathic emergency medicine mainstream.