2 types of physicians?????

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lihini

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OK maybe all your med students can help me out here . I just took my first set of block exams for my first year in pharmacy school and a exam question for my CAPP (Contemp. ascpects of Pharm Practice) course is really bugging me. I guess I should know this one but I dont. here it is :
What are the two types of physicians? (Do not list degrees)
Tell me if there is a defienite answer that jumps out? Thanks a lot!
 
lihini said:
OK maybe all your med students can help me out here . I just took my first set of block exams for my first year in pharmacy school and a exam question for my CAPP (Contemp. ascpects of Pharm Practice) course is really bugging me. I guess I should know this one but I dont. here it is :
What are the two types of physicians? (Do not list degrees)
Tell me if there is a defienite answer that jumps out? Thanks a lot!
Surgeons and medicine doctors ? 😕
 
The two types are Osteopathic and Allopathic Physicians. One gets a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine or D.O. degree and the other gets a doctor of Allopathic medicine or M.D. degree.
 
You are posting on the Allopathic forum. 😉 Might want to check out the Osteopathic one, as well. 👍
 
lihini said:
OK maybe all your med students can help me out here . I just took my first set of block exams for my first year in pharmacy school and a exam question for my CAPP (Contemp. ascpects of Pharm Practice) course is really bugging me. I guess I should know this one but I dont. here it is :
What are the two types of physicians? (Do not list degrees)
Tell me if there is a defienite answer that jumps out? Thanks a lot!

Good and Evil.
 
skypilot said:
The two types are Osteopathic and Allopathic Physicians. One gets a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine or D.O. degree and the other gets a doctor of Allopathic medicine or M.D. degree.
Is a D.O. degree only available in the USA ?
 
lihini said:
OK maybe all your med students can help me out here . I just took my first set of block exams for my first year in pharmacy school and a exam question for my CAPP (Contemp. ascpects of Pharm Practice) course is really bugging me. I guess I should know this one but I dont. here it is :
What are the two types of physicians? (Do not list degrees)
Tell me if there is a defienite answer that jumps out? Thanks a lot!

Yea MD and DO, MD is allopathic, DO is osteopathic. I am pretty certain they are looking for this answer. Good luck.
 
I thought the same thing when I took the exam but talke myself out of saying MD vs. DO cos the question also told us not to list degrees. I guess they must have ebeen looking for Allopathic vs. Osteopathic. I ended up saying General practioners vs. Specialists.. well I guess there goes that one!
Thanks a lot for all your input!
 
To be fair, that is a really stupid question to put on a test, so I wouldn't worry too much that you got it wrong. 🙂
 
Those who divide physicians into two types and those who do not.
 
Is this what you do in pharmacy school :laugh: I think what other posters said, DO vs. MD is probably what they wanted.
 
to start off, this is for my friend, not me. also, i am not being a "troll" here, i am genuinely looking for help for her. does anyone have any experience with this situation:

Ok, so, my friend is in DO school but hates it and is getting a ton of getting federal loans. How would it work if she quit and went to MD school? Would she have to start paying on those loans NOW or could they be added onto from the MD school assuming the total balance stays below the 180something maximum and then start paying back like she normally would have?

Also along those lines, she has no desire to transfer into a ms2 or ms3 position, but to just completely start over even though she would be leaving the DO school at the end of her ms2 year. She retook the mcat and went from a 24 to a 33 and has a 3.4 gpa. Would the MD school know she went to a DO school before? Is she required to say? would it matter if she said? i think she said she is about average in the class, grade wise.

finally how would it affect the DO school? is it really bad for that school or just someone they dont get an extra 2 yrs of money from??

I guess she was hoping that since there is the aacomas and the amcas separately, that there would not be communication between the two in applying.

she just doesnt want to go to the DO school anymore badly enough that she would be will to start completely over. just a personal choice, no good solid extenuating circumstance. a transfer would be great, but not needed.

we appreciate the help.
 
As far as I know, nobody ever drops out and restarts any medical program of any kind. Seems to be a one-shot deal.
 
MyBeauTulane said:
to start off, this is for my friend, not me. also, i am not being a "troll" here, i am genuinely looking for help for her. does anyone have any experience with this situation:

Ok, so, my friend is in DO school but hates it and is getting a ton of getting federal loans. How would it work if she quit and went to MD school? Would she have to start paying on those loans NOW or could they be added onto from the MD school assuming the total balance stays below the 180something maximum and then start paying back like she normally would have?

Also along those lines, she has no desire to transfer into a ms2 or ms3 position, but to just completely start over even though she would be leaving the DO school at the end of her ms2 year. She retook the mcat and went from a 24 to a 33 and has a 3.4 gpa. Would the MD school know she went to a DO school before? Is she required to say? would it matter if she said? i think she said she is about average in the class, grade wise.

finally how would it affect the DO school? is it really bad for that school or just someone they dont get an extra 2 yrs of money from??

I guess she was hoping that since there is the aacomas and the amcas separately, that there would not be communication between the two in applying.

she just doesnt want to go to the DO school anymore badly enough that she would be will to start completely over. just a personal choice, no good solid extenuating circumstance. a transfer would be great, but not needed.

we appreciate the help.

How many forums are you planning to post this question in?
 
Law2Doc said:
How many forums are you planning to post this question in?

there are only like 6 or 7 that seem appropriate. should i only list in one forum?

in response to your other post:

yea, that makes sense really. she said that she was upset that some of the surgical rotations wouldnt work with her, and they had specifically listed because she was a DO student. i think it started there with her. is that a bad reason to list if she reapplied??
 
MyBeauTulane said:
Ok, so, my friend is in DO school but hates it and is getting a ton of getting federal loans. How would it work if she quit and went to MD school?
What does she not like about DO school and how would MD school be any different? They both train physicians and are very similar.
 
toofache32 said:
What does she not like about DO school and how would MD school be any different? They both train physicians and are very similar.


yea... she said that she had some problems trying to get into some surgical programs or something. i didnt understand it exactly, but they mentioned something to the effect that they do not allow DO students to come through. so she is all upset now...
 
any chance she was in cali?...I didnt think many states had program directors that were still amongst the elitist "good ole boys" at least for rotations....in some instances it probably happens with some specialized surgical residencies...but for rotations...f**k.....those aren't the type of people that I'd want to be around regardless of my job/degree...

If someone was willing to repeat the first 2 years of medical school for that....wow....a psych visit might be in order....

My advice to your...ahem.."friend"..cough cough.....would be to rock her boards, both usmle and comlex and earn her way into whatever specialty she wants....keep in mind that in the end residencies that are hard for MD's to get into are hard for DO's to get into as well (probably a little harder...but doable if you prove yourself equal with your board scores).....if shes really dead-set on a certain specialty remind her that the AOA has its own residencies for DO's only in virtually every residency....im sure that their are a few sub,sub specialties that we are missing.....but if she earns the credentials theres nothing stopping her......but first shes got to earn em.....


alright...im sure u all loved my grammer in this post....back to studying for my head and neck anatomy test.....
 
tupac_don said:
Yea MD and DO, MD is allopathic, DO is osteopathic. I am pretty certain they are looking for this answer. Good luck.
yup. that's the answer 👍
 
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