A question from an Australian...

[IDeeTenTee]

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I am not sure where exactly this should go and if it turns out that i've stuck it in the wrong place please place it where it belongs.

I recently got accepted into undergraduate medicine in Australia (so happy 😀 ) and i was browsing a forum for australian med students when i found a link to this one (incidentally i also discovered that your entry requirements are far more difficult than ours :|).

Just a question of curiousity. Why are the forums divided into a section for allopathic and osteopathic medicine? What are the distinctions between them? I've never come across these terms and differences before in Australian courses and i was just wondering what they were.

Please offer me some insight 🙂

Thanks,

Aussie

 

[dopaminophile]

There are a number of threads on this topic in the osteopathic forum. To summarize, allopathic schools are traditional medical schools. Graduates have the Medical Doctorate degree and call themselves MDs. Osteopathic schools are an alternative approach to medicine. They learn much the same things that MDs learn but consider themselves to be more wholistic and they learn manipulations. They earn a Doctor of Osteopathy degree and are called Joe Smith, DO. They can practice, prescribe, operate entirely the same as MDs. From what I understand (I know a few aussie docs) most, if not all, aussie med schools are allopathic.

The difference between the two used to be quite a bit greater, but now there's little difference. DO schools are easier to get into in the US and tend to have more lax requirements. However, excellent physicians come out of both paths.

All the best... and does anybody down there care about the US/Aussie rugby game that's coming up?

-dope-

 

[IDeeTenTee]

there's a US/aus rugby game coming up ?


I had no clue 😛

 

[dopaminophile]

haha... do you all follow the australian open? You would think that it was the event of the century the way it's on TV here.