The Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Podcast

Ep.98 Never Stop Learning – A Career in FM, OMM and Sports Medicine - Nicole Fremarek, DO

The Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Podcast

Show Notes

Dr. Fremarek began her path to practicing Osteopathic Primary Care Sports Medicine with a Bachelors of Science in Interdisciplinary Health Sciences from the University of Illinois. She continued her passion for looking at patient care from a 360perspective at Kansas City University where she completed the DO/MBA dual degree program. In addition, she was selected for the undergraduate OMM Fellowship at KCU where she able to pursue multiple passions including teaching and dancing for the Major Arena Soccer League team, the Kansas City Comets. She completed her Family Medicine residency at University of Michigan Health-West while participating in both the Osteopathic Medicine and Sports Medicine tracks. During her time in Grand Rapids, she served as the peer-nominated Chief Resident of Research, Quality Improvement, and Patient Safety for two years in addition to Co-Chief Resident of the Family Medicine Residency during her third year. She then transitioned to Edward Via College of OsteopathicMedicine/Virginia Tech where she completed her Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine residency and is currently completing her Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship.

She credits her family, friends, and mentors to her achievements like being selected as KCU’s AT Still Medallion Memorial Award recipient at graduation and the American Academy of Osteopathy’s 2023 Osteopathic Resident of the Year. She has a strong passion for ensuring the art of osteopathic medicine is not lost by continuing to teach current and future osteopathic physicians. She has also used her undergraduate minor in Spanish to visit the Dominican Republic and Guatemala for multiple global medicine trips where she performed and taught primary care and osteopathic medicine for this underserved patient population. Her interests include: osteopathic medicine, sports medicine, academics, global health, orthobiologics, and integrative medicine.

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Thanks for listening, be well, be curious and spread osteopathy.

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