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New membership course

Our new course runs two days a week, Fridays and Saturdays over 18 months which means less weekday commitment, and also makes it easier for doctors to maintain their current activities. 
Spreading the new course over a longer period may be less convenient for doctors from abroad, but we will run a shorter course if we have enough students wanting to study for three days a week over 13 months.

Course structure

• A Distance Learning Course for 2 months
  The majority of this is revision of anatomy and physiology, with a small component of new material relating specifically to osteopathy. Students are supported throughout the course by a mentor, and this facility is available for the distance learning course.

• Intensive Course of 10 days
  Two consecutive weeks of 5 week days. This part of the course prepares the student for the clinical teaching to come – revising some musculoskeletal and orthopaedic examination techniques but introducing new refined osteopathic assessment and treatment techniques.

• Clinic Teaching
   After the intensive two weeks the attendance for clinic teaching is two days a week for 70 weeks and is supervised patient care in the clinic.
  • students attend for two days each week, 0930 to 1700 hrs for the whole course.
  • each student is entitled to 6 weeks of annual leave. The college is closed for one or two weeks at Christmas depending the days that the bank holidays fall on. The course therefore extends approximately 80 weeks in total, or 18 months. 
         
• Technique Teaching  
• Concurrent with the clinic teaching, there is technique teaching every week initially for 12 weeks and then at regular intervals to the end of the course for a further 14 weeks, making a total of 26 weeks.
• Time additional to this minimum commitment will be dictated by the needs of students as they progress.
  
  
• Lunch time Teaching
  Topic teaching, student presentations and journal reviews take place at lunch time.
  
  
• Holidays
  Six weeks leave are permitted, which excludes a week over Christmas when the clinic is closed. A maximum of two consecutive weeks of leave are allowed to maintain progression of palpatory and proprioceptive skills.
  Sick leave is counted separately, and if students have significant sickness  absence they may be required to make up days lost as decided by faculty.
  
  
• Care of patients
  Students are responsible for the care of the patients in the clinic under supervision of the tutors.