DO friendly residency

[the prodogy]

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Hi,

I know everyone says that PM&R is a "DO friendly" specialty, but can anyone point me out to which programs these are? I'm looking at "current residents" for a lot of these sites, and they do not list any DO's:

Washington: 2 DO's (1 R4, 1R3); no DO's in R1 or R2 (also, a huge decrease in number of residents)
Colorado: No DO residents
UCLA (VA): No MD's
UC Davis: no longer accepts DO students for rotations
UC Irvine: no longer accepts DO students for rotations

Utah I saw has a few. Other than that it seems pretty limited. Any help with other friendly spots?

 

[DrJMD]

You're going to find more competition at some of the top programs, but there are a bunch who take DO's--RIC, Mayo, Harvard/Spaulding, Columbia/Cornell, Emory, Carolinas, Pitt, etc. I can't tell you which programs accept Comlex only, but you should be fine if you score well on your USMLE Steps.

 

[DrMattOglesby]

I am a little surprised by your findings with UCLA. Anyhow, I don't know of any PM&R residency program that is exclusive to MD students.

 

[Baritonebass]

Things vary year to year my pgy2 class has 11 DOs. the pgy4 is the opposite

 

[MedBronc23]

You're going to find more competition at some of the top programs, but there are a bunch who take DO's--RIC, Mayo, Harvard/Spaulding, Columbia/Cornell, Emory, Carolinas, Pitt, etc. I can't tell you which programs accept Comlex only, but you should be fine if you score well on your USMLE Steps.

Agreed. Mayo very DO friendly. We are about 70:30 to 60:40 MD😀O in my estimation (dependent on 7 or 8 in a class).

I think you want program that takes best people regardless of letters after their name.

 

[DrJMD]

Exactly. One of my good friends was a DO and ended up at an elite program. With his application (great scores, research, publications), it wasn't really going to matter where he went to school (in the US).

 

[PhysMedDoc]

Agree with DrJMD on doing well on USMLE (Step 1 very strongly encouraged, Step 2 highly recommended IMO). As 'friendly' as PM&R is to D.O.'s, given two DO's with similar application strengths, residency programs will prefer the student who's taken the USMLE and did well on it, as opposed to the student who only took COMLEX.