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I guess we interpreted what he said differently. You read, " do students are slackers" and I read, " do clinical rotations are not structured," which I agree with.
The latter is absolutely what I was saying, at least in my (admittedly limited thus far) observations with DO students.
And again, although I largely find no problem with my DO co-interns, the difference does become quite apparent with the upper level (2nd/3rd year) DO medicine residents. Much of intern year is spent being a glorified secretary, at least on a medicine service. MD vs. DO doesn't really factor in as much there probably; however, when it comes to efficiently and effectively managing an entire team of patients and interns/students, that seems to be where things get dicey (again, this is limited my observations at one residency program when comparing with the medicine residency at my medical school).