Can DO's Specialize?

[hopefool]

I was having a discussion with my friend on the differences between MD's and DO's and he said that osteopathic school is not really medical school because the 2nd two years are not filled with speciality rounds like allopathic schools are. He was saying that an osteopath is similar to a dentist or an optometrist in the sense that osteopaths are simply osteopaths and cant be surgeons, pediatricians or orthopedists, say, like medical doctors can.

Is this true? can anyone explain further on this.

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[DrMom]

Osteopathic medical schools are medical school. DOs can specialize in all of the areas that MDs can. Your friend is completely misinformed.

 

[Hernandez]

I was having a discussion with my friend on the differences between MD's and DO's and he said that osteopathic school is not really medical school because the 2nd two years are not filled with speciality rounds like allopathic schools are. He was saying that an osteopath is similar to a dentist or an optometrist in the sense that osteopaths are simply osteopaths and cant be surgeons, pediatricians or orthopedists, say, like medical doctors can.

Is this true? can anyone explain further on this.

your "friend" is misinformed if he is refereing to American Osteopaths. He would be right for british and most of the EU Osteopaths, however, in the good ole USofA, The Osteopathic profession is almost identical to their Allopathic counterparts.

 

[hsmooth]

Add osteopaths who trained in Canadian osteopathic school -- they aren't "medical doctors".

But, bump what the previous two posts said -- US trained osteopathic physicians are almost the same as MDs. also from looking at residency match lists of DO schools, some osteopathic physicians do go into surgery and even more go into pediatrics.

 

[Faraaz23]

DO's trained in the US are in every field of medicine from family to derm to neurosurgery.

 

[It'sElectric]

So many people on these forums refer to "friends" as the people that they get what you would think is incredibly important information.

People, we live in an informational and technological world. You apparently have access to a computer. Now all you have to do is actually use it. Between various stickies,threads, articles, etc. listed on this website alone and the rest of the internet world, I'm confident you could've figured this out on your own.

 

[CatsandCradles]

I was having a discussion with my friend on the differences between MD's and DO's and he said that osteopathic school is not really medical school because the 2nd two years are not filled with speciality rounds like allopathic schools are. He was saying that an osteopath is similar to a dentist or an optometrist in the sense that osteopaths are simply osteopaths and cant be surgeons, pediatricians or orthopedists, say, like medical doctors can.

Is this true? can anyone explain further on this.

1) Open up your phone book and look under the listing of physicians.

2) MDs and DOs do the same thing: dispense pills, surgery, etc. But DOs bring even more to the table with OMT.

 

[hopefool]

So many people on these forums refer to "friends" as the people that they get what you would think is incredibly important information.

People, we live in an informational and technological world. You apparently have access to a computer. Now all you have to do is actually use it. Between various stickies,threads, articles, etc. listed on this website alone and the rest of the internet world, I'm confident you could've figured this out on your own.

Yea, I didnt agree with him and said Id have to check it out because I was almost sure he was mistaken. He did say it with an awful lot of conviction however. Dont ya just hate that when people speak confidently but incorrectly?

 

[It'sElectric]

What I said had nothing to do with your "friend", but everything to do with you.

 

[NewNick]

You can check this link out to see if a DO is a medical doctor or not.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=175626&page=1&pp=25

I hope you know how to google, or at least read the FAQ on the top of this forum. Then copy the link and forward to your friend.

 

[NNguyenMD]

I'm an allopathic student, but I can tell you in my own experience in just the third year of medical school I have met

Osteopathic Orthopaedic Surgeons
Osteopathic Trauma/Critical Care Surgeons
Osteopathic Radiation Oncologists
Osteopathic Otolarynologists
Osteopathic Urologists
Plenty of Osteopathic ER docs and Pediatricians

Have no way of knowing if any of the Pathologists or Radiologists I've come across were DOs, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of them were.

 

[Bull's eye]

No DO's cannot specialize. They are just glorified Chiropractors with stethoscopes.

(Looks in Mirror) Hey I'm a DO and an orthopedic surgeon. Nevermind.

 

[dr.kicia]

i am shadowing a DO cardiologist who is also a professor in top research university.
So yes DO can specialize just like MD's. You can also look up DO specialists here http://www.osteopathic.org/directory.cfm ....there are even plastic surgeons who are DO's.

 

[harrypotter]

Just curious, but all the doctors that I have met who have specialized did an MD residency and a MD fellowship. Granted, I haven't met many DOs but can anyone tell me if this is a majority or a minority sorta thing?

 

[cyclohexanol]

Just curious, but all the doctors that I have met who have specialized did an MD residency and a MD fellowship. Granted, I haven't met many DOs but can anyone tell me if this is a majority or a minority sorta thing?

You are probably more likely to see specialists who completed ACGME residencies (as opposed to AOA residencies) simply because there are so many more opportunities; AOA residency programs are woefully outnumbered. So I think that in this case, you're mostly looking at a numbers game. Yes, there are other reasons that contribute to this phenomenon, but probably not as much as the sheer numbers.

 

[colonelmustard]

So many people on these forums refer to "friends" as the people that they get what you would think is incredibly important information.

People, we live in an informational and technological world. You apparently have access to a computer. Now all you have to do is actually use it. Between various stickies,threads, articles, etc. listed on this website alone and the rest of the internet world, I'm confident you could've figured this out on your own.

I stumbled upon this thread, and I must say, these sort of responses make me sick. Get over yourself.

 

[aSagacious]

I stumbled upon this thread, and I must say, these sort of responses make me sick. Get over yourself.

Ahem, this thread is 5 years old.

 

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[DrCalculi]

wtf.

 

[Iliketoytles]

kaaa...meeee....

 

[DrMaximus]

kaaa...meeee....

I cracked up in the middle of genetics.

 

[krnpanda]

I stumbled upon this thread, and I must say, these sort of responses make me sick. Get over yourself.

probably because you're the type of person who'd ask a question like this.