Can MD programs see if you were accepted into DO programs?

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Yeah i never understand why DOs say that. It's offensive to MDs because they are directly saying MDs don't care about the patient and their psychosocial circumstances... and that MDs almost always specialize and go into academia.

Again, it is historical (except for the magic thinkers who think it still pertains to today) it all delves from a time when MDs were blood letters and wanted to cut everything and give weird meds and DOs were OMM quacks, back then there was a "holistic approach" that actually was used by DOs over MDs. Back then medicine in general just wasn't super effective and anything like it is today

 

[gyngyn]

Don't know. But I can just see my school trying to cash in on the merger by offering OMM certificates to MDs gunning for choice AOA residencies.

I can also envision the "true believers' trying to duke it out with the deans who have $ in their eyes!!!

My ortho applicants are already all over this.

 

[Lawpy]

Again, it is historical (except for the magic thinkers who think it still pertains to today) it all delves from a time when MDs were blood letters and wanted to cut everything and give weird meds and DOs were OMM quacks, back then there was a "holistic approach" that actually was used by DOs over MDs. Back then medicine in general just wasn't super effective and anything like it is today

Fine it's history. But right now, there is no reason for two separate pathways to exist. Seems like the only people who want this type of division are the radical DO old-timers with very strong anti-MD biases. While the top DO schools are looking increasingly like mid-tier MD schools.

 

[Psai]

Fine it's history. But right now, there is no reason for two separate pathways to exist. Seems like the only people who want this type of division are the radical DO old-timers with very strong anti-MD biases. While the top DO schools are looking increasingly like mid-tier MD schools.

Who is telling you these things?

It's very strange how going to a do school makes people go from "I only had do schools as a choice" to "I chose a do school" or "the do school with the best admission stats being barely comparable with the lowest stats of an md school" somehow becomes "do schools are competitive with mid tier md schools". It's just not true, please don't deceive people trying to get information here.

 

[Goro]

I agree. And keep in mind that medical education is an evolving process. In time, the distinction will be a negligible as JD vs LLD or DMD vs DDS. Remember that surgeons were once not considered to be physicians. This distinction still lives on in the name of Columbia's medical school, and in England, where surgeons are known as "Mr/Mrs/Ms", not Doctor.

Fine it's history. But right now, there is no reason for two separate pathways to exist. Seems like the only people who want this type of division are the radical DO old-timers with very strong anti-MD biases. While the top DO schools are looking increasingly like mid-tier MD schools.

Honestly, Psai, you have such a run-on sentence there that I have no idea what you're trying to say!

Who is telling you these things?

It's very strange how going to a do school makes people go from I only had do schools as a choice to I chose a do school or the do school with the best admission stats being barely comparable with the lowest stats of an md school somehow becomes do schools are competitive with mid tier md schools. It's just not true, please don't deceive people trying to get information here.

 

[Alienman52]

Are you guys still talking about this? Let the uneducated educate themselves lol


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[Lawpy]

Who is telling you these things?

It's very strange how going to a do school makes people go from I only had do schools as a choice to I chose a do school or the do school with the best admission stats being barely comparable with the lowest stats of an md school somehow becomes do schools are competitive with mid tier md schools. It's just not true, please don't deceive people trying to get information here.

😕😕 sorry i'm completely lost.

1. I don't know why there is a separation between MD and DO if both do the same thing. The answer is largely history, but the present continued separation seems to be maintained because of the conservative DOs who oppose the merge. If that's not true, I would like to know the reason why MD and DO have separate pathways besides history.

2. Top DO schools offer good resources that are comparable to mid-tier MD schools. UC Irvine emerged from a DO school. And if the DO system is abolished, I could easily see good schools like PCOM, Touros, KCUMB becoming solid MD schools.

 

[Lawpy]

Are you guys still talking about this? Let the uneducated educate themselves lol


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If you could tell me why MD and DO schools follow separate education pathways despite doing the same thing, I am eager to know. Besides history, because that's stuff happened in the past and there is no reason for the two pathways to be separate.

If the answer's OMM, why can't MD schools employ OMM as an elective? Why is it unique only to DO schools?

 

[Psai]

😕😕 sorry i'm completely lost.

1. I don't know why there is a separation between MD and DO if both do the same thing. The answer is largely history, but the present continued separation seems to be maintained because of the conservative DOs who oppose the merge. If that's not true, I would like to know the reason why MD and DO have separate pathways besides history.

2. Top DO schools offer good resources that are comparable to mid-tier MD schools. UC Irvine emerged from a DO school. And if the DO system is abolished, I could easily see good schools like PCOM, Touros, KCUMB becoming solid MD schools.

The do schools with the best admissions standards are barely comparable to the md schools with the lowest. What resources do they offer that are comparable? Some of them can't even provide proper clinical rotations at their own university hospital.