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I disagree that you will be fine. Yes, you will get a job when you graduate, but if things don’t work out 5-10 years later at the large malignant academic system, finding another one is not very easy especially if utilization decreases.If you go to a top 10 radonc training program you'll be fine. Nobody can predict the pendulum. Horrible in 1997, amazing in 2005, horrible in 2020 it comes and goes. I've made serious 0's in my career, and continue to # it out.
Get good training, network, and be flexible and you too can enjoy this life. Also, "buy low" (e.g. 1997) we may be at another moment here now... justsayin'
You lack reading comprehension. I was talking about top 10 rad onc programsWhat's a top 10 DO school? Isn't that like bragging about winning the arena league football title?You
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!We got DO’s matching derm at god damn UW
Uh, most of the DO's I've interacted with are not the cream of the crop
I'll quote myself here!DOs aren't what they used to be
Your ignorance is amazing.. there are actually a significant number of DO schools especially in competitive areas such as California whose average mcat and gpa’s are higher than some state USMD schools.. DO’s have been actively told to avoid rad onc atleast the last 4-5 years and that’s the main reason why there’s soo few DO’s in Rad onc. Also because 10-15 years ago Rad onc was the most elitist specialty, who wanted only MD phd’s even more so than plastics or neurosurgery nowadays. I mean even plastics and neurosurgery routinely take DO’s nowadays and even derm takes nearly 50-60 DO’s yearly in the combined merged match.. the combined merged match has done wonders for DO’s imho. It’s great to see rad onc fall from grace.. and these same elitist chairs and PD’s are now begging USMD and DO’s to fill their spots so their residency doesn’t straight up shut down now.. it’s quite hilarious.Uh, most of the DO's I've interacted with are not the cream of the crop (outside radonc). I've never really met a DO radonc.
There's a reason people go to DO school instead of Medical School. And the bottom 10% of my med school class was suspect too.
Do the brightest 20% of DO's compete with MD's? Prolly. Hopefully DO schools aren't still teaching voodoo about joint manipulation other than as historical remnant..
Once you have kids in school or sick elderly parents that you are caring for, geographic arbitrage is out the window. Sure some low IQ, dumb AF medstudents will snag good residencies this cycle and may very well land that vaunted satellite job or DEI fellowship. But, 5-10 years down the road when they simply can’t tolerate the kachnic, dicker, or regine petty despot of a chairman, they are fd no matter where they did their training.There were 20+ jobs in my last big email. Many were not in places most folks might be dying to live in, but you can make plenty of $. The more you can geographically arbitrage yourself, the better off you'll be..
and so.. have you ever thought about learning how to fly?
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There were 20+ jobs in my last big email. Many were not in places most folks might be dying to live in, but you can make plenty of $. The more you can geographically arbitrage yourself, the better off you'll be..
and so.. have you ever thought about learning how to fly?
I was saying it’s bad compared to hem/onc and other specialties and yeah if you are willing to work in the middle of no where you can even find a job in nuclear medicine i guess its all relative.you’re gonna be fine if you decide to apply but please go to a job listing website and look at available jobs use for eg (merrit hawkins) you’d find less than 10 jobs available in the whole country now go look at med hem/onc jobs or any other specialty and decide for yourself if you are ok with this getting much worse 5-6yrs when you graduate maybe you wouldn’t even find a job in the middle of Arkansas who knows.
What's a top 10 DO school? Isn't that like bragging about winning the arena league football title?
They basically are taking kids now that 10-20 years ago would have gone Caribbean/sgu/auc/ross (rad onc used to fill with Caribbean grads before the turn of the century...)DOs aren't what they used to be and DO schools are doing some things right (mainly expanding and expanding in areas that need docs).
I believe that new DOs are now making up roughly 25% of all newly minted US docs, up from roughly 5% not that long ago. We need those docs and as that number increases, the DO stigma will disappear.
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Yeah. I was shocked to find out that the pretty reputable DO school in my region didn't have a home clinical site. They rotate through a number of community sites during 3rd and 4th years.They basically are taking kids now that 10-20 years ago would have gone Caribbean/sgu/auc/ross.
Inside joke on this forum, how's the biryani there? That will tell you the answerLess glamorous, but better pay. Our hospital is desperate for a medonc and would probably pay W2 750k+ easily for a very manageable position. Nobody wants to work in rural America. Cost of living is dirt cheap. But alas..
They might as well as pay $850k instead of $750k and it won't make a bit of difference. People want their biryani....Biryani might as well be alien space dust here..
Well, the best I can do is all you can eat sysco chinese buffet.. plus 850k a year.
Deal?
ps. the airport has a nice shiny new runway
Less than 30 minutes from office to rolling down the runway is more like it.Bet the airport is 30 minutes or less car to gate too
Less than 30 minutes from office to rolling down the runway is more like it.
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Maybe even less. Best big city airport i ever saw was KC MO.... Literally could walk in and see ticket counter, security and gate almost immediately from the entranceBet the airport is 30 minutes or less car to gate too
its not as great as it seems. You have a security line for like 5-10 gates at a time, so...at 530AM you got ALOT of people in line. I missed a few flights out of there before.Maybe even less. Best big city airport i ever saw was KC MO.... Literally could walk in and see ticket counter, security and gate almost immediately from the entrance
Well, the best I can do is all you can eat sysco chinese buffet.. plus 850k a year.
Deal?
ps. the airport has a nice shiny new runway
Exactly. If you can make weekend drives to a major metro, even if you are rural, you are fully staffed in radonc.EDIT: I mean for the open med onc position
DO school is medical school. Take your exact allopathic school experience and add on a sprinkle of extra hands-on utility and a large pile of voodoo, and now you have osteopathic school. It's actually just more work for less reward. It's the tax for doing decent on the MCAT and not great, nowadays, or doing well on the MCAT but being lazy in undergrad.Uh, most of the DO's I've interacted with are not the cream of the crop (outside radonc). I've never really met a DO radonc.
There's a reason people go to DO school instead of Medical School. And the bottom 10% of my med school class was suspect too.
Do the brightest 20% of DO's compete with MD's? Prolly. Hopefully DO schools aren't still teaching voodoo about joint manipulation other than as historical remnant..
Might be partially true due to sheer numbers, but I would also point out that the average entry stats just rise every year across the board due to all of the available resources. Even getting into a DO school is becoming very competitive. Ironically, a lot of elitist old-timer doctors you talk to that describe their experience and stats getting into medical school would not even be accepted into DO schools today.They basically are taking kids now that 10-20 years ago would have gone Caribbean/sgu/auc/ross (rad onc used to fill with Caribbean grads before the turn of the century...)
They are expanding everywhere not just places that need docs and the big problem will be that residencies are not expanding quick enough to accommodate all of them.
Some of the newer for profit med schools sound like straight up scams honestly
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I agree that DOs have a disadvantage with not having a home site, but I don't think that disadvantage comes in the form of worse or less-rigorous training. It's more of a disadvantage because it requires more travel and provides less research opportunities for becoming competitive. A lot of DO sites tend to give their students a lot of hands-on training because they are community hospitals that actually need the help.Yeah. I was shocked to find out that the pretty reputable DO school in my region didn't have a home clinical site. They rotate through a number of community sites during 3rd and 4th years.
Now, lots of MD schools rotate through affiliated community sites, but there is always that home site experience. The uber intense 3rd year home site IM or surgery rotation is probably the most important part of med school IMO. I do think this is a downside of a lot of these programs.
Fact is though, we need more docs and we don't need to import them at the resident level to make things work (nothing against IMGs, its just kinda a crazy thing).
It's almost like in the US and UK, being a doc in community health care is really a job for well educated foreigners while an elite subset of docs who are native born work exclusively in academia or elite urban communities. Other US elites go into things like investment banking.
I don't know, but I do suspect that established MD schools are not really concerned with providing community health care at the MD level. They are interested in prestige, their differential value over community partners and research.
I don't need cream of the crop. I need conscientious and reasonably bright people, who are licensed to do things like prescribe chemo, and who will commit themselves to less glamorous US communities.
I'm more than happy for them to be DOs.
DO school is medical school. Take your exact allopathic school experience and add on a sprinkle of extra hands-on utility and a large pile of voodoo, and now you have osteopathic school. It's actually just more work for less reward. It's the tax for doing decent on the MCAT and not great, nowadays, or doing well on the MCAT but being lazy in undergrad.
Radiation won’t dissapear, but it’s indications lessen (threaten to lessen) every year, unlike almost any other specialty in medicine.Rad Onc is not dying. At least every other patient we discuss in tumor boards has seen or will see Rad Onc. They are quite busy around here. When a hiring crisis really hits, the residencies just need to slash their spots 90% for a couple of years, then moderate to a level maybe 50% of what it is now.
Which of course will never happen until the specialty has fallen off the cliff/crashed into the mountain.Rad Onc is not dying. At least every other patient we discuss in tumor boards has seen or will see Rad Onc. They are quite busy around here. When a hiring crisis really hits, the residencies just need to slash their spots 90% for a couple of years, then moderate to a level maybe 50% of what it is now.
Rad Onc is not dying. At least every other patient we discuss in tumor boards has seen or will see Rad Onc. They are quite busy around here. When a hiring crisis really hits, the residencies just need to slash their spots 90% for a couple of years, then moderate to a level maybe 50% of what it is now.
Blah blah blah blah… yet every year more DO’s are matching to traditional elite MD programsDOs are profoundly discriminated against in this specialty (and many others). When you think of real "discrimination" this is so easy to show happening, compared to other types, because not only is it legal, it is enforced by many departments.
If two candidates were literally exactly alike - same letters of rec, same scores, same race, same gender and one was a a DO and one was an MD, the MD will 100% get more interviews and be more likely to match.
You're a DO at an elite program? Oh wait ...Blah blah blah blah… yet every year more DO’s are matching to traditional elite MD programs
As far as discrimination in Radiation oncology that’s an oxymoron. I don’t think a specialty that can’t fill all their spots and only fills like 60-70% and with many US IMG or FMG’s has room to discriminate against anyone.. what a joke. As things stand any US DO who has a pulse can walk into and I really mean WALK into the vast majority of Radiation oncology programs.
Blah blah blah blah… yet every year more DO’s are matching to traditional elite MD programs
As far as discrimination in Radiation oncology that’s an oxymoron. I don’t think a specialty that can’t fill all their spots and only fills like 60-70% and with many US IMG or FMG’s has room to discriminate against anyone.. what a joke. As things stand any US DO who has a pulse can walk into and I really mean WALK into the vast majority of Radiation oncology programs.
So . . . beggars CAN be choosers?Weird tone, but anyway the data doesn't support what you are saying. NRMP supports that it's exactly as difficult as a DO today as it was in 2018.
That’s because the vast majority of DO grads rather stay away from Radiation oncology anyways. What you conveniently fail to mention is the number of FMG who have matched to radiation oncology has ballooned over the last few years as has the number of unfilled spots. I can almost guarantee that any DO student(or even graduate who failed to match their preferred specialty) can walk into a radiation oncology program.Weird tone, but anyway the data doesn't support what you are saying. NRMP supports that it's exactly as difficult as a DO today as it was in 2018.
DO applicants to rad onc have about tripled 2018-2023. In 2018 there were 3 DO graduate matches into RO. In 2023, there were only 9 DO graduates matched (3 of which were not "US senior" grads, so applying after prelim year or some other break).
I am actually at a Top 30 IM programYou're a DO at an elite program? Oh wait ...
Wtf does this post even mean…. Hahah get your head out of your a**I haven't met a 'sharp' DO but I've met plenty of mid ones. Some are certainly seeming to be the same as an average MD.
Hell, I've met some pretty dense MD folks too. But the elite/sharpest of them all? Not a one was DO.
And I have yet to meet a “sharp” sirsamalot either, don’t think they existYour reading comprehension problem is perhaps suffocated by a lack of oxygen. I recommend you follow your own advice.