AOA - Getting public recognition for DOs

[803]

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The biggest and maybe only issue that faces me once I graduate from an DO school is the current lack of degree recognition for DO's. Rather than the Osteopathic community spend so much time stressing how they are much different and "have a more whole person approach" . To me it seems the profession would have a lot more to gain by gaining in degree recognition in particular that the DO is 98% similar to the MD degree. There is a name recognition problem and what has the AOA done to improve the problem.

I have never seen anything coming out as far as marketing goes from the AOA. There has to be a professional way to go about this.

 

[NontradCA]

You're kinda doing the same thing they are. What should happen is merger of two degrees.

 

[survivordo]

I think the best marketing the AOA could have done is have more of us out there, they have done that with the increase in osteopathic schools. As more and more DO's spread to the less traditionally DO heavy areas there will be more recognition.

Honestly, no one cares when you get out. If people comment at all it is "Oh you're a DO I have always preferred DOs" I have never had someone say "I won't go to a DO" most of them are ambivalent and just call me Dr. Survivor. I do suppose this varies where you practice as I have always been in very DO heavy areas.

Survivor DO

 

[803]

You're kinda doing the same thing they are. What should happen is merger of two degrees.

I dont where you got that but okay...

I agree on the merger, but just do not see that happening.

 

[DrBumblebee]

I think the best marketing the AOA could have done is have more of us out there, they have done that with the increase in osteopathic schools. As more and more DO's spread to the less traditionally DO heavy areas there will be more recognition.

Honestly, no one cares when you get out. If people comment at all it is "Oh you're a DO I have always preferred DOs" I have never had someone say "I won't go to a DO" most of them are ambivalent and just call me Dr. Survivor. I do suppose this varies where you practice as I have always been in very DO heavy areas.

Survivor DO

.. and where are those areas? (out of curiosity)

 

[survivordo]

.. and where are those areas? (out of curiosity)

Northeast and Michigan

 

[gmcguitar4]

I live in NYC and I learned about DO's about 3 years ago. Before that I had no idea they existed and didin't even realize that many doctors I had been to were DO's. When I went to the doctors office I just went to the doctors office...never took notice to the name tag or anything else.

 

[Mehd School]

Growing up, my family's doctor was a DO. He was actually my best friend's dad. I didn't realize this until it came up in conversation a decade later that I'm applying to medical school.

But now I live in a region where DO's are few and far between.

 

[cliquesh]

You're not going to care once you match.

 

[Mehd School]

You're not going to care once you match.

People on SDN don't care about their own feelings. They just want to know everyone around them thinks favorably about them.

At least while they're a pre-med.

 

[NurWollen]

People on SDN don't care about their own feelings. They just want to know everyone around them thinks favorably about them.

At least while they're a pre-med.

Haha, so true.