2025 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 59. Professions and Occupations
§59-621. Definitions.

As used in the Oklahoma Osteopathic Medicine Act:

1. “Board” means the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners;

2. “Osteopathic medicine” means a patient-centered system of health care founded by Andrew Taylor Still, M.D., D.O., and based on the theory that the body is capable of making its own remedies against disease and other toxic conditions when it is in a normal structural relationship and has favorable environmental conditions and adequate nutrition. Osteopathic medicine emphasizes prevention and wellness and utilizes generally accepted physical, pharmacological and surgical methods of diagnosis and therapy while placing strong emphasis on the importance of body mechanics and manipulative methods to detect and correct faulty structure and function;

3. “Osteopathic physician” means a person who is licensed to practice osteopathic medicine in this state; and

4. “School of osteopathic medicine” or “college of osteopathic medicine” means a legally chartered school or college accredited by the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation requiring:

• a.for admission to its courses of study, a preliminary education equal to the requirements established by the American Osteopathic Association, and
• b.for granting the D.O. degree, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, actual attendance at such osteopathic school or college and demonstration of successful completion of the curriculum and recommendation for graduation.

Added by Laws 1921, c. 30, p. 41, § 1. Amended by Laws 1983, c. 152, § 1, emerg. eff. May 26, 1983; Laws 1993, c. 230, § 2, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 2025, c. 168, § 1, emerg. eff. May 12, 2025.