Can a DO get into Pediatrics?

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Couldn't help myself.

Impossible. Its never been done. Pipedream. No chance. No way. Your on crack. Your doomed. Get out. Hit the bricks pal. Daydreamer.

Troublemaker, we don't serve your kind, muckraker, Ida Tarbell, gossip hound, rumor mill maker.

Game over.
 
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Once the omnibus restraining order is lifted, yes, but you'll still have to register.
 
I almost had a heart attack when I read this thread title.

If you are ever having a heart attack... Simply Chant "Shalla Falla Shuta Ma" and sprinkle the magic osteopathic AT Still dust on your head and you are cured. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's the protocol that DO's use for an acute MI right tri?
 
Any DO's matching into an allopathic residency will be burned at the stake for heresy. This was established by the washington administration
 
Oh that's right. But wasn't there some legal controversy in California a while back... there, you are only sentenced to wear the scarlet "DO" letters on your lab coat.
 
Ah yes, the infamous scarlet DO, symbolizing "DONT". Hopefully, in a few years the "DO" will stand for "Can DO" instead.
 
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You guys crack me up! At first I thought, "God HELP that OP!" Then I saw that the poster was the ever-satirical Tanner-man.......

Maybe this thread will open people's eyes.....finally.

Strong work, men😎
 
I knew it... Just goes to show you that roomers are just roomers.

Unless you're talking about RUMORS (note correct spelling). As a side note...why would anyone want to do pediatrics! My concept of Hell is never ending well child exams!
 
Wow. This guy is on the ball! He definitely did not miss the thick layer of sarcasm all over this thread.

I didn't miss the sarcasm...just the poor spelling. I'm obsessive-compulsive, what can I say.
 
I didn't miss the sarcasm...just the poor spelling. I'm obsessive-compulsive, what can I say.


Whew! You had me worried for a second! 🙂 I think it's safe to say we're all a little obsessive-compulsive around here. I think you have to be just to get through the application process! 😎
 
No

DOs can only do Derm, Rad, plastics and neurosurgery

They are still discriminated by MDs in places like pediatric, IM, Family medicine

So if you are set on pediatrics go MD....
 
I have been told by people that I'll only get to practice acupuncture. I wish I knew that before applying to osteopathic schools.
 
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I have been working with a DO pediatrician (shadowing with him), and he did an MD residency. He said it was "getting the best of both worlds" -- because he still learned the values that a DO school had to offer, but then got to work closely with other MD's during his residency (which mirrored what he has to do now as an attending -- collaborate with both DOs and MDs). Plus, he said that the MD residents he worked with were really interested in learning about the OMM skills he had acquired in DO school, and truly thought that both types of residents (himself and the MDs) had that much more of a memorative & learning residency as they worked together.

Its what I plan to do as well-- DO school and MD residency. I don't think you'd be giving up anything or "selling out" as far as being a DO... just having the chance to experience more.👍