The osteopathic medical profession established the Osteopathic Research Center (ORC) in December 2001 at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Worth. The ORC’s mission is to foster nationwide collaborative research on the efficacy of osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM). Although manipulative medicine is only one way the osteopathic physician treats patients, it is among the founding principles of the profession.

This web site provides information about the organization, its mission, its partners, its products and services. This organization belongs to the osteopathic profession and its research community. It is intended to be your web site, created for and about research on the efficacy of OMM. As the organization grows and the web site engages others in the ORC mission and activities, it will continue to link you to important resources, foster learning, provide useful information, connect to your interests, and respond to your needs.

The Clinical Research Database, developed by the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine in conjunction with members of the Osteopathic Research Task Force and other members of the osteopathic research community, serves primarily as a tool for clinical research collaboration and project tracking. By entering information about research projects and clinical interests into this database, members are helping to build an online community of osteopathic researchers both nationally and internationally.

The database helps track research projects and people within the osteopathic profession who support clinical research endeavors. Data gathered through this tool is used in many areas of the clinical research web site to foster collaboration and to provide tools for the physicians and researchers.

An outgrowth of the Osteopathic Collaborative Clinical Trials Initiatives Conferences, which began in 1999, the database will initially include research studies that emphasize the use of osteopathic manipulative medicine to treat or manage a variety of physical conditions. Eventually, the focus of the research efforts included in the database will be broadened to incorporate other types of research conducted in the osteopathic profession.

OSTMED®: The Osteopathic Literature Database is a bibliographic index to the osteopathic medicine literature. Sponsored by the American Osteopathic Association and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, OSTMED® was originally developed by the Gibson D. Lewis Health Science Library of the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (UNTHSC-FW) in conjunction with the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine's (KCOM) A.T. Still Memorial Library.

OSTMED® is currently housed and maintained by UNTHSC-FW and is freely accessible over the Web.