Can I do it?

[ecohappy4]

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I want to be a trauma surgeon.

I'm a high school student (junior), I take AP, Honors, and College courses most of the day. I want to go to NYIT NYCOM. I have a 3.6 GPA (estimated). I was just wondering what I need to get into NYIT. Also, is NYCOM a good school? and is there a big difference between DO and MD?

 

[Fai]

Hello!

I don't know anything about tech schools but I can answer your M.D, D.O question:

The only real difference really is the philosophy. That, and D.Os study extra time on the musculoskeletal subject so they can do OMT. The philosophy of an M.D is the body is a unit and the focus is to treat the disease. D.Os looks at the person as a whole. There's no difference in salary, either.

I got the above information from throughly searching the forums using the search option on the top. If you have any broad questions (that aren't situational really) you can do a search and there will be a few threads on it.

Is NYIT the only school you're looking towards?

EDIT: Also, pre-med is college. I figured I'd point that out to avoid any confusion should you call yourself a pre-med when in HS because it could be misleading. I made the same mistake don't worry 😀

 

[ecohappy4]

Thanks for answering my question! Great response and very helpful! I like the idea I'd calling myself premed now in highschool! I'm also looking at Columbia Cornell and stonybrook, I'd really love to go to nyit nycom though

 

[ecohappy4]

Also, does anyone know the training of a trauma surgeon?

 

[SpecialmED]

Go to NYCOM if you have to, otherwise try for a state school. It will get you there but don't expect any help from them.

 

[Valadi]

Also, does anyone know the training of a trauma surgeon?

Gen surg residency after med school then a trauma fellowship.

 

[ecohappy4]

Do you know how long that residency is? and how long the fellowship? you have to do an internship in med school too right?

 

[Morsetlis]

Did you also know trauma surgeons get a parking spot right in front of the ED?

 

[DrMaximus]

Do you know how long that residency is? and how long the fellowship? you have to do an internship in med school too right?

General surgery is typically five years long and then I believe trauma is a two year fellowship.

Good luck, buddy. This is what I wanted to be for a long time and am still considering it. 👍

 

[da8s0859q]

I want to be a trauma surgeon.

I'm a high school student (junior), I take AP, Honors, and College courses most of the day. I want to go to NYIT NYCOM. I have a 3.6 GPA (estimated). I was just wondering what I need to get into NYIT. Also, is NYCOM a good school? and is there a big difference between DO and MD?

Do you know how long that residency is? and how long the fellowship? you have to do an internship in med school too right?

1. Answering the thread title: you absolutely can do it. You're a high school junior. To make a biology simile, you're about as differentiated as a stem cell at this point.

2. The vast majority of LCME accredited, US allopathic medical schools are "good schools." Accredited osteopathic schools generally are too. Name doesn't matter nearly as much as you probably think it does.

3. DOs learn OMM; MDs don't. DO schools also tend to be statistically easier to get into versus MD schools. In practice, there is basically no difference between the two, but every now and again, you run into someone who still feels like a DO is somehow slightly inferior.

4. Unsure as to the residency/fellowship pathway to being a trauma surgeon since you couldn't pay me enough to pursue surgical specialties, but if you don't mind unsolicited opinions: research your interests, but be careful you're not liking a specialty just to like it. Same's true for medicine in general. Things change, and that's okay.

 

[Valadi]

Do you know how long that residency is? and how long the fellowship? you have to do an internship in med school too right?

5+2

Real internship is done away with for like decades now. For tradition's sake, your first year of residency is now known as your intern year.

 

[da8s0859q]

5+2

Real internship is done away with for like decades now. For tradition's sake, your first year of residency is now known as your intern year.

True, but there's still a lot of intern-ness to intern year -- in the sense that a person doing a radiology residency, or an EM residency, may spend only two months of their first year in radiology or EM.

 

[Valadi]

True, but there's still a lot of intern-ness to intern year -- in the sense that a person doing a radiology residency, or an EM residency, may spend only two months of their first year in radiology or EM.

Yes. Just saying that you won't have to separately apply for it/its not extra years added on. You will have to separately apply for a TY or Prelim year if your program (ophtho, etc) require it.

 

[swamprat]

I believe the fellowship is actually in critical care not trauma and you don't necessarily have to do a fellowship to be a "trauma" surgeon.. from what I have learned a lot of gen surgeons take trauma call... so it could just be 5 years post med school.