In its 2018 Report on the Osteopathic Medical Profession, the AOA projects DOs will represent more than 20 percent of all practicing physicians by 2030.
Three findings from the report:
1. Sixty-five percent of practicing DOs are age 45 or younger, and 41 percent of all DOs are women.
2. Half of practicing DOs in the U.S. practice in seven states: Pennsylvania, California, Florida, New York, Michigan, Texas and Ohio.
3. Most DOs (57 percent) enter primary care specialties. However, the top five non-primary care specialties DOs typically enter into are emergency medicine, anesthesiology, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery, and psychiatry.
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