Survey, Systematisation and Comparison of Professional, Advanced and Continuing Training Programs for Osteopathy available in Austria in the Winter Term 2006/2007
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Survey, Systematisation and Comparison of
Professional, Advanced and Continuing Training Programs for Osteopathy available in Austria in the Winter Term 2006/2007 - Author(s)
- Wilfling Elisabeth
- Abstract
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The aim of this thesis was to present a survey of the professional, advanced and continuing training programs for osteopathy currently on offer in Austria and to subsequently compare them, work out and describe differences as well as similarities. The status of this paper is the winter term 2006/2007.
Osteopathy is an independent, medical-scientific, holistic and manual method of treatment, but as such is not recognised in Austria. Currently no form of legal regulation for osteopathy exists. The main problem that results from this absence of legislation is the impossibility to contain and distinguish osteopathy. Therefore it is not possible to present a comprehensive list or survey of all current professional, advanced and continuing training programs for osteopathy in Austria, and it became necessary to develop a systematisation. In the framework of this thesis “professional training programs in osteopathy” are distinguished from ”osteopathic advanced and continuing training programs”. Graduating a “professional training in osteopathy” can in no way be compared to attending “osteopathic advanced and continuing training programs”. These two groups differ relevantly, foremost in respect to contents, instructors, participation requirements and the complete conveyance of the holistic concept of osteopathy.
To undergo a “professional training in osteopathy” in Austria is currently only possible in the framework of an extra occupational part-time training, which requires a basic qualification as doctor or physiotherapist. The professional training programs in osteopathy that are currently on offer in Austria have many common characteristics but at the same time differ in relevant details. As a result the problem of quality management of training and osteopathic professionalism arises in Austria. The legal regulation of osteopathy is urgently needed, because the basic problem of a non-existent regimentation for osteopathy in Austria is carried out on the back of the patients. The aim of an official recognition of osteopathy as an independent treatment and profession in the sense of a medical-scientific manual method of treatment, and not as a “specialisation” of medical professions, is inevitable in the future.
Keywords: osteopathy, professional, advanced and continuing training programs, manual method of treatment, holistic treatment - presented at
- Wiener Schule für Osteopathie
- Date Accepted
- 2007
- Date Submitted
- 1.10.2007 00:00:00
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Number of pages
- 151
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 13709
- Inst-Identifier
- 781
- Keywords
- Osteopathy,Advanced Training,Training Programs,Professional Review Organizations
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- Wilfling.pdf
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- Wilfling.pdf
Wilfling Elisabeth, “Survey, Systematisation and Comparison of Professional, Advanced and Continuing Training Programs for Osteopathy available in Austria in the Winter Term 2006/2007”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed May 4, 2025, https://www.osteopathicresearch.org/s/orw/item/2978