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STUDENT OSTEOPATHIC SURGICAL ASSOCIATION (SOSA)
ACOS Student Member Section


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SOSA Newsletter(pdf)  |  Conventions  |  Favorite Links  |  Guide to the OR
Welcome to your on-line information source for the osteopathic medical student interested in surgery!

Purpose for SOSA

The SOSA is established to provide a means for ACOS student members to participate in the activities and governance of the ACOS The purpose of this organization is to represent and educate future osteopathic surgeons through local chapters of SOSA This includes:
  1. Stressing the understanding of osteopathic principles in relationship to disease in the practice of surgery;
  2. Helping to promote education in the field of surgery, including gowning and gloving, scrubbing, sterile technique, suturing and tying techniques, operating room behavior, instrumentation, universal precautions, osteopathic manipulative management of the surgical patient, pre and post-operative management of surgical patients, and surgical documentation; and
  3. Providing a forum for discussion amongst students and surgeons.
 
 

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