TCOM: The definitive story behind the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine.

0:49 History of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Andrew Taylor Still
2:04 What is Osteopathic Medicine?
5:01 Development of Manipulative Techniques
5:40 Early Treatments and Writings
6:26 The Advancement of Osteopathic Medicine
7:55 Osteopathic Medical Schools
9:06 Osteopathic Hospitals
11:07 Building the Osteopathic Hospital
12:49 The Formation of the Health Science Center
15:38 The Effect on the Community
17:18 The Positive Impact of Diversity and the Future.

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The story of TCOM, HSC, and osteopathic medicine has been more than 50 years in the making. We are proud to unveil the definitive story of TCOM, osteopathic medicine and the rise of HSC. This is TCOM.

Fort Worth, Texas – In 1966, three osteopathic physicians received a charter from the State of Texas to establish the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Worth.

Since its opening in 1970, TCOM has gained recognition not only among osteopathic students across the country but also within the broader health care community.

Dr. Andrew Taylor Still was an allopathic physician who founded osteopathic medicine in the late 1800s. Dr. Still's personal tragedies, including the loss of his first wife because of complications from childbirth, the death of three children to meningitis in 1865 and the subsequent loss of another child to pneumonia, led him to blame the medical profession's ignorance for these devastating outcomes. Driven by a determination to make a difference, he embarked on developing a new approach to medicine.

The Edwards Family Scholarship, established in June 2020, stands as a testament to TCOM's dedication to increasing diversity within the osteopathic profession. The scholarship honors Dr. Dralves Edwards, who graduated from TCOM in 1980 and was the college’s first Black graduate, and his daughter, Jessica, who followed in her father's footsteps 34 years later.

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(News Reporter intro.) “The institute, which will soon move to Fort Worth, will also be a research center.”

I think the best way to talk about this is to talk about how osteopathic medicine actually came about. You think about Andrew Taylor Still, who was the founder of osteopathic medicine in the late 1800s. He was an allopathic physician. He was a surgeon. He came across a personal situation where he was seeing members of his family getting real ill. As a physician, he saw himself there and asked

“How can I help?”
“How come my family isn’t getting better?”
“How come some are dying from illness; some are surviving?”

In 1859, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still had woeful loss in his life. He lost his first wife due to complications of childbirth. And in 1865, he lost three of his children due to a meningitis outbreak and then another child a month later to pneumonia. A.T. Still blamed the loss on the gross ignorance of the medical profession. And as a physician, he said to himself, “We have to come up with something different.”

The main difference between them comes down to philosophical.

M.D.s - typically there’s not a philosophy of health care that overrides their education and treatment. Osteopathic medicine there is. So osteopathic medicine was founded on basically four tenets:

One, that a person is a unit,
Two, that the body is capable of self-regulation and self-healing.
Three, that structure and function are interrelated at all levels, from cellular up to gross structures.
And four, that a rational treatment is based on all of those principles.

That’s what medicine is about. It’s about getting down to the bare bones, figuring out who this person is. Who you are in the situation. How can you help? How can you see this person for all that they are, for all that they’ve been through?

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[lucyl]

I’ve really been thinking of going here as I do research about schools in anticipation of the application cycle opening. FTW is a nice area & the way i’ve seen students and alumni describe TCOM, they were happy being there