ONMM residents joined ONMM faculty and osteopathic family medicine residents and faculty at NEOMEN-OPTI’s fall education program in Bangor. The Northeast Osteopathic Medical Education Network Osteopathic Postdoctoral Training Institution sponsors regular hands-on training opportunities to enhance the manual medicine skills of both faculty and learners.
Faculty member Dr. Sam Madore returned from a March trip to Olanchito, Honduras, where he joined a diverse group of 40 other physicians through the Hackett Hemwall Patterson Foundation (HHPF) to learn and provide prolotherapy treatment to hundreds of Hondurans suffering with chronic pain. Since 1969, the HHPF has organized trips to provide prolotherapy education […]
As the ONMM team was plodding their way through the long Maine winter, they decided to start a recurring gathering off-site to combat the winter blues together. Their activity of choice for sharing time outside of work? Eating! A dinner get-together to share food and friendship was formed. Meals are based on a creative theme […]
The ONMM Plus One team is heading for Orlando in March to attend convocation. This will be an opportunity for us to learn and commune with others who focus on osteopathic neuromusculoskeletal medicine. Check out the AAO website for more information about convocation.
Meet Persis Hope, family nurse practitioner with Maine Dartmouth Collaborative Care Center (MDCCC). She sees patients who are referred by their primary care providers for consults in functional and integrative medicine – “a way of addressing chronic medical issues by looking for the underlying causes of disease,” Persis explained. Treatment involves making dietary and other […]