Originally Posted by DocEspana

Boy you're crazy. What sort of kooky math are you doing. Let me set you straight. You compare SGU to any schools its own size you'll see DO schools blow them away. SGU = 800-900 students graduated per year. DO = 120-150. So you'd need to compare 6 different DO schools combined against SGU. If your're going to compare KCUMB, DMUCOM, MSUCOM, CCOM, PCOM, and UMDNJSOM together against SGU, thats a fair fight because finally the student body sizes are equal. (actually, doing the math, SGU still has about 50 more students than those combined do). So thats flaw 1.

Flaw 2 is that you're citing SGU's tracking of people into fellowships. Fellowships are (mostly) due to your residency performance and connections, and not your med school anything. Because of this DO schools really dont follow them at all. That SGU does is nice, but largely irrelevant and not done by many other schools out there. Definitely not the norm.

Big huge flaw #3 is that you're comparing US-IMGs (10% of the resident population) to DOs (5% of the the resident population). So lets take the exact number you cited. 37 foreign grads became Gastroenterologists. 21 DOs did (just in ACGME fields). So without counting any AOA GI fellowships, and there are some, DOs did better than US forgiegn grads, since they are literally half the population they'd be 42 spots if the population sizes were equal.

If you go down the list of fellowships DOs will either be matching at a higher rate, or straight out HAVE MORE PEOPLE, in every fellowship but oncology. Oncology is the biggest international graduate field in medicine.