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"Integrating Osteopathic Tenets in evidence-informed, Person-Centered and Culturally Sensitive care"
Course #03, past-present-FUTURE | Developing Culturally Sensitive Healthcare Environments | 3 hours
Osteopathic distinctiveness in contemporary care: how can our e-learning courses help clinicians reinforce their professional identity ?
· The body-mind-spirit osteopathic tenet, reintroduced in 2002, lacks clear guidelines for its practical application in contemporary clinical care. To address this gap, we have focused on patients' bodily experiences rather than philosophical or spiritual constructs. In this context, emerging evidence highlights the role of body awareness and touch-based procedures in shaping patients' experiences. Additionally, patients' values and expectations, influenced by cultural and experiential frameworks, play a critical role in how they perceive the body in health and disease, as well as the therapeutic use of touch in osteopathic practice. These perspectives provide a comprehensive understanding of health and healing, encompassing both observable (material) and experiential (non-material) dimensions, which is essential for strengthening the therapeutic alliance in clinical care.
· Discover our exclusive series of three online courses, "Past-Present-Future", designed to enhance your osteopathic practice and highlight the distinctiveness of osteopathic practice by integrating scientific evidence while also acknowledging perspectives rooted in longstanding knowledge systems, including early Native American influences. By addressing these diverse patients’ worldviews, we introduce the Cynefin framework as a tool to reinforce the person-centered and holistic foundations of osteopathic practice.
· Our program is intended for osteopaths seeking to refine their clinical approach in line with the profession’s original intent while meeting contemporary scientific, ethical, intercultural, and person-centered care standards. It aims to strengthen the therapeutic alliance and optimize patients’ sense-making to guide and individualize the choice of manual techniques.
🎓 Rafael Zegarra-Parodi, MEd, DO (UK) | A.T. Still Research Institute, Kirksville, MO (USA) research affiliate | Course director
First author of six peer-reviewed publications exploring the evidence-informed clinical application of contemporary osteopathic principles (Rogers et al., 2002).
· Includes a unique 20-min lecture by Francesca Baroni BSc Hons Ost (UK) | Osteopathic private practice in Roma, Italy
· 🎥 🇺🇸 "Sociocultural perspective and the Cynefin framework in osteopathic care"
· Includes a 40-min podcast | Dr Jaris Swidrovich PharmD (Canada) & Rafael Zegarra-Parodi, DO (UK)
· 🎥 🇺🇸 "Integrating Traditional/Indigenous and Western medicine in patient-centered care"
Each of our 4 evidence-informed online courses can be attended independently, and they are based on oral presentations given during a unique CPD event held at "Le Grand Rex" in Paris in May 2022
Learning objectives
Upon completing our program titled "Integrating Osteopathic Tenets in Evidence-Informed, Person-Centered, and Culturally Sensitive Care", you will have the skills and knowledge to:
🎯 Critically evaluate the early influence of traditional/indigenous healing traditions on osteopathic care, with a focus on Dr. A.T. Still’s contributions, and assess the contemporary relevance of these principles within the body-mind-spirit osteopathic tenet in evidence-informed practice.
🎯 Integrate neuroscientific insights into osteopathic techniques, emphasizing body awareness and the modulation of multisensory integration (e.g., interoception, proprioception), to enhance therapeutic outcomes in manual medicine.
🎯 Apply the Cynefin framework to clinical decision-making, improving the ability to navigate complexity and uncertainty in patient-centered osteopathic care.
🎯 Adapt osteopathic interventions to align with diverse cultural health beliefs, fostering epistemological flexibility and enhancing therapeutic efficacy across sociocultural contexts.
Target audience
· Osteopathic practitioners, students and faculty members.
· Physicians and other healthcare professionals worldwide.
· Medical anthropologists.
🎓 Founded in France in 2019, BMS Formation is certified to the national Qualiopi standard, ensuring our continuing professional development (CPD) programs meet rigorous French quality requirements and international expectations.
📚 Our CPD courses are directly based on more than 10 peer-reviewed publications produced by our own international and interdisciplinary team.
👐 Designed by experienced clinicians for practicing clinicians, our courses focus on practical, evidence-informed osteopathic care.
💬 Get the opportunity to inform your practice with current evidence and engage discussions with the BMS Team and other participants!
Rafael Zegarra-Parodi is an internationally recognized osteopath, researcher, and educator. With over 25 years of clinical experience, he has published more than 35 peer-reviewed articles and has served as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine for a decade. He was a full-time Research Assistant Professor at the A.T. Still Research Institute in Kirksville, Missouri (USA) from 2012 to 2014 and has remained affiliated since, contributing as a member of the Executive Committee of DO-Touch.NET. As the co-founder and Course Director of BMS Formation, established in France, he leads a unique continuing education program that integrates person-centered care, scientific evidence, and cross-cultural insights into osteopathic practice.
For osteopaths registered with the General Osteopathic Council (UK), this set of three online courses, titled « Past-Present-Future », complies with the CPD activities covering the four themes of the Osteopathic Practice Standards, and more particularly the following themes: A. Communication and patient partnership (A1, A2, A6, A7), B. Knowledge, skills and performance (B4), C. Safety and quality in practice (C1, C2, C6), D. Professionalism (D2, D3, D6).
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