The topic of OsEAN’s eight “Open Forum for Osteopathic Education” conference which was held on 29^th & 30^th September 2022 in Antwerp, Belgium was “Teaching Clinical Competencies”.
The clinic is an important part in osteopathic education and clinical competencies are a core part of osteopathic training, according to the CEN-Standard for Osteopathy (CENTC414-N0086). Teaching clinical competencies includes the application of all osteopathic skills to real patients.

The lectures, workshops and poster presentations were very well received by the seventy present participants from Europe. The conference continued one and a half days offering keynote speeches from Prof. Eyal Lederman on “Process Approach in Osteopathy.” (read abstract / view presentation) and Stephen Vogel on „Conceptualising and teaching the risk of serious vascular adverse events associated with manual therapy when treating the neck: An overview of a recent International Framework.” (read abstract / view presentation)

Next Open Forum Conference will be held in 2024. The country and exact date are not yet decided. The topic of the next conference will revolve around osteopathic research and its implementation in the classrooms. The exact topic will be made public as soon as we know it.

Of course we would like to thank our sponsors Anatomage and Plaiad.

If you want to look at the photos from the confrence you can do it here: Gallery Open Forum 2022