Arrowhead--San Bernardino County

[thundercat77]

I'm a current 3rd year osteopathic medical student interested in ER. Anybody have information on Arrowhead? How is the program, the residents, etc??

It's hard because ER is competetitive in itself, and to top it off, most allopathic programs rarely take DO applicants for their programs. I figured my best shot would be Arrowhead if I want to go to California.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[Underachievment]

It's hard because ER is competetitive in itself, and to top it off, most allopathic programs rarely take DO applicants for their programs. I figured my best shot would be Arrowhead if I want to go to Californoia

Seeing that the allopathic programs were putting up 'Ivory" walls- I believe that is exactly what motivated Arrowhead in the first place. Would certainly be my first option if I were in your shoes.

 

[SoCuteMD]

Seeing that the allopathic programs were putting up 'Ivory" walls- I believe that is exactly what motivated Arrowhead in the first place. Would certainly be my first option if I were in your shoes.

You might want to take a look at some of the threads over the past few weeks. There has been at least one "DO-oriented" one asking DOs where they matched. I am not familiar with which are DO programs and which are allo, but I think a lot of people matched at allo programs that were high on their list.

There is also a thread about matching at your top choice and the probability of doing so, with a statistical model created by a PD who posts on here. He did confirm the "anti-DO bias" but I think most of the DOs still matched to allo programs.

Just don't completely discount the allo route because you think you can't get in/think you have to! Only discount it if you really want to do the DO thing instead!!!

 

[SoCuteMD]

Here is the DO thread:
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=266145