The IOT Academy is a multi-professional body. It is the professional Training Academy, working nationally and internationally, for all those involved in Osteopathic Medical Education – the education and training of students and practitioners in Medicine, Physiotherapy, Dentistry and Physical Therapy.

It aims to provide high level of training and teaching, promote international Osteopathic Medicine or Osteopathy standards and support all those involved in the academic discipline of Osteopathic Medical Education.

The work of our osteopathic physician’s educators directly contributes in the training by promoting improvement of health care, the relief of pain and sickness as well as the preservation of a balanced well-being and good health.

Quite simply, our medical educators are able to teach the required osteopathic skills and knowledge to doctors, Osteopaths, physical therapists and dentists, in order for them to become safer, more able and more competent when putting those osteopathic skills into practice.

Through IOT Professional Standards and future objectives that serve as a guide to curriculum development, the Academy provides a recognized framework so that those in training can demonstrate expertise and achievements in osteopathic medical education through future accreditations as an osteopathic teacher (medical doctor, dentist, physiotherapist and osteopath) to an agreed national and international standard.

Finally, IOT Academy works on the recognition that the development and improvement of osteopathic training of medical and paramedical practitioners will be to the only benefit of the health of the public and directly of our patients.

Under its Articles of an Osteopathic Medicine Academy, the objectives for which IOT is established are the advancement of Osteopathic Medical Education for the students (medical, paramedical and osteopaths) benefit in particular by:

1. the development of a curriculum and qualification system for each category of students (Physician/Osteopath/Physical therapist/Dentist);
2. undertaking continuous evaluation and upgrading the curriculum for the continuing development of professional Osteopathic Medical Training;
3. The promotion and dissemination of the best practice in Osteopathic Medical Training and Education;
4. Collaboration with International Osteopathic Medical Schools, Osteopathic Schools, International Osteopathic Associations, International and National Medical Associations and Societies; and
5. The validation of its seminars through certificates. This is to validate a continuous training but also to validate seminars that are part of a wider program proposed by IOT or in collaboration with International Osteopathic Medical Universities for Physicians (University Diploma in Osteopathic Medicine), International Osteopathic Schools (Diploma of Osteopathy) or even validating trainings in the fields of Dentistry, Podiatry and Posturology.