Sure they can continue to discriminate from their ever-dwindling applicant pool? Most are likey discriminating from which country they want their IMG residents to be from....
So . . . beggars CAN be choosers?
Apparently reading comprehension AND spelling both present challenges to you sir. Good luck, and let the butthurt flow thru you.
Lol good luck to you too.. hopefully you can keep whatever rad onc job you have now because if not it won’t matter about reading comprehension or spelling or whatever you’d be looking at FM(250k) money in the boonies
Back 10-20 years ago the DOs/Caribbean grads were basically the folks that partied too much in undergrad or before the MCAT. While less so the case today, the stereotype has stuck around for some. I'm sure there's still a kernel of truth to it
Why should an oversubscribed specialty in the US like rad onc take any IMGs?
I’ve met incredibly smart DOs, and yes people should not be going into rad onc
You post is soo outdated dude it’s laughable… keep living under your rock. The residencies merged in 2015 and MANY previous DO programs made it to acgme accredidation. I also don’t know a single board certified DO in any specialty who can’t get a job because of they are a DO. And many people in places like California would rather go to a place like touro or western in Cali (admission stats on par with many lower tier MD scholls) than an out of state lower tier MD school in the middle of nowhere…
under no circumstances was it harder to get into medical school 20-30 years ago then it’s now.. you’d be shocked to know that especially in surgical sub specialties USMD have and continue to match to previously Osteopathic residencies… why do they do that if the residencies were soo bad? Well cause they are acgme accredited like every other program
This is completely false as is your other posts. I know a program director who literally told me he won’t take MD srudenrs because it’s already such a uphill battle for DOs
Because they have the most unfilled spots in the match every year and it's harder for IMGs to match into anything, everything else being equal. Plenty of IMGs matched rad onc this year looking at the bird
I feel like you’re going overboard, man. Lots of countries recognize the degree. You can see that from a simple Google search.
Saw matches from all over the world including Suez Canal medical school and somewhere in ethiopia.
I agree, but we should stop s***ing on radoncs in a radonc thread.
Pot, meet kettle.
I’m trying to think what those illustrious bios did for our field over the last 15 years. I’m thinking real hard.
Need room to operate. They ran XRT elimination trials or did retrospective work. Maybe a little DEI work. A fair share of translational folks still trying to find that secret sauce combo that makes IO and XRT synergistically sing (lots of redundant work here). Some ion work.
It’s tough to make predictions. Especially about the future.
I predict we will get it wrong somehow again. I'm confident my prediction will be accurate this time.
For some reason, you remind me of the gentleman referenced in this SkyMall ad I saw years ago.
I find it ironic that top MD schools love talking about DEI while sitting on tremendous resources related to large endowments, NIH funding of indirect costs and high commercial payer rates that are not available to DO, foreign and lower tier MD medical schools. How much of this largess filters down to the medical student is unclear but this level of education is simply not feasible in a community hospital or safety net hospital environment.
Although DO schools MS3 years are not on par with the best USMD schools you have to acknowledge that MS3 and clinical rotations across even USMD schools is not uniformed, my DO school had many clinical sites where we had real teaching faculty with residents(with rigorous daily didactics) and some sites had limited resident exposure and more one on one with preceptor. The residency program I am at now their USMD affiliated medical school also has several sites and experiences for students with many being one on one with an attending as well. Newer USMD schools like nova, U Houston, frank netter and cal northstate prbly have worse rotations than say OK state’s DO school or a TCOM that have an actual academic center affiliated with them. Clinical Medical education across USMD and DO schools is in no way uniform. But I agree that clinical education across USDO schools should be improved but don’t think it’s that far off from what USMD students get tbh at some lower tier schools or new USMD schools.
Probably don't need any of the newer DO or MD schools. Just like we don't need any of the newer rad onc residency programs
I agree that most new schools that have opened in the last 5 years shouldn’t exist
Nobody is debating why DOs pursue it, we’re saying the same thing. He’s denying they are saying that it’s all the same when it’s not. He’s not touching his DO residencies with a 10 foot pole but preaching to us like the MD places are the same . He decided to goto DO school, it’s unfair but the realities myself and others posted are real
I’ll take a DO over a IMG any day I initially did post that it is unfair and I don’t agree with it.
Lol in essence any program which obtains acgme accreditation meets the basic requirements, that’s all I am saying never did I say that power house MD residencies are the same as these DO residencies stop putting words in my mouth, but many are 100% better than some of these new HCA residencies which are opening up some of which are affiliated with new USMD schools. I don’t understand the supposed hate against DO, especially from rad onc PD’s while in essence USDO is simmilar to lower tier USMD schools.. maybe some even discriminate against new USMD and lower tier schools, who knows.
Yea, in general docs are pricks.
