Are my goals for DO realistic?

[hungrydoc710]

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To add to the above, my school matched 1 ENT and 1 Neurosurg at both Mayo clinics...

 

[deleted610572]

Sab3156 is lying, doesn't know what he's talking about or is trying to put forth some kind of stupid agenda or is still living in 1965 or something. I am currently doing research at a major academic center in Cleveland affiliated with Case Western and is consistently rated as one of the "best hospitals in the nation" and theres plenty of DO attendings, faculty and residents, in almost every department. Theres DO's here as well as at Cleveland Clinic, theres also DO's at Mayo clinic lol. There is no DO bias here, I personally spoke to a DO peds ENT who's faculty here and she says the whole DO bias thing is just sdn nonsense for the most part. She said there are some very top programs that may be anti DO in certain specialties when it comes to applying for residency but once you are out of residency no one gives a rats ass if you are a DO or MD or MBBS or SMD lol.... She got offers from virtually every major academic institution on the east coast for a faculty position. She also said that being a DO has never been a problem in terms of getting jobs and fellowships afterwards, she also doesn't know many places if it all any place that won't hire a Board certified physician just because they are a DO.. she straight up said that is a bunch of bull****. She routinely gets job offers from bigger cities like NYC, Chicago, SF etc.. The whole DO bias thing/prestige thing is blown way out of proportion mostly on SDN. For OP's question GS is hardly like ortho or Derm, its very doable for DO, most schools have 5-10 ppl match it every year and even at university programs, look on FRIEDA, more than half the acgme programs have at least one DO. 230-235+ USMLE should be good enough to match GS

Sab is quite extreme in his views and very vocal about them but he’s not exactly lying. You are in the Midwest so yes they are more DO friendly. CC and Mayo are the programs always quoted as top programs that are exceptions. On the coasts they are less DO friendly, especially at top programs, and most top programs are on the coasts.

 

[Mass Effect]

Sab is quite extreme in his views and very vocal about them but he’s not exactly lying. You are in the Midwest so yes they are more DO friendly. CC and Mayo are the programs always quoted as top programs that are exceptions. On the coasts they are less DO friendly, especially top programs, and most top programs are on the coasts.

And they are attainable to hard-working DOs.

 

[hallowmann]

Sab is quite extreme in his views and very vocal about them but he’s not exactly lying. You are in the Midwest so yes they are more DO friendly. CC and Mayo are the programs always quoted as top programs that are exceptions. On the coasts they are less DO friendly, especially at top programs, and most top programs are on the coasts.

DOs work at a lot of top places on the coasts. It really depends on where you went for residency/fellowship and just like everything else in medicine, who you know. As far as getting into residency, sure, but a lot of top universities have DOs in them.