DO resident completing and MD fellowship

[SpecterGT260]

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What year are you, specter? I'm a 4th year

2nd, but you will have to explain how this is at all relevant or pertains to the post that you quoted.... A good many of our schools last graduating class were friends of mine and I can confidently say they do not know all the political rationales driving the AOA and AMA policies 😉 We arent debating medicine in which I am sure you would kick my butt, we are debating current events and politics in which "years medschool completed" has precisely zero bearing.

 

[cliquesh]

2nd, but you will have to explain how this is at all relevant or pertains to the post that you quoted.... A good many of our schools last graduating class were friends of mine and I can confidently say they do not know all the political rationales driving the AOA and AMA policies 😉 We arent debating medicine in which I am sure you would kick my butt, we are debating current events and politics in which "years medschool completed" has precisely zero bearing.

lol, sorry, you read too much into my question. I was thinking, "this specter guy has a lot of free time to be posting on the pre-osteo forum. I wonder what year he is?"

 

[SpecterGT260]

lol, sorry, you read too much into my question. I was thinking, "this specter guy has a lot of free time to be posting on the pre-osteo forum. I wonder what year he is?"

oh 😳
I'm doing research this summer. Cell culture and fighting for a microscope that is shared by many departments. This is why I dont post much in evenings but have plenty of time during the day. And I browse all of the med boards as they all have relevant information regardless of your particular flavor of education. 😀

 

[deleted103644]

oh 😳
I'm doing research this summer. Cell culture and fighting for a microscope that is shared by many departments. This is why I dont post much in evenings but have plenty of time during the day. And I browse all of the med boards as they all have relevant information regardless of your particular flavor of education. 😀

Are you working with Henrietta Lacks? (You should read the book about her if you haven't - she was the first immortal.)

 

[SpecterGT260]

Are you working with Henrietta Lacks? (You should read the book about her if you haven't - she was the first immortal.)

No. murine only. Primary dissection samples cultured. Although another student in our lab may be.... she is either doing HeLa or HEK... but different project so I cant remember

 

[deleted103644]

No. murine only. Primary dissection samples cultured. Although another student in our lab may be.... she is either doing HeLa or HEK... but different project so I cant remember

Fancy, good luck. It takes a couple of years for anything to get published usually, but if you can get a few posters out of it residency programs generally don't distinguish too much.

 

[SpecterGT260]

Fancy, good luck. It takes a couple of years for anything to get published usually, but if you can get a few posters out of it residency programs generally don't distinguish too much.

I am actually in a pretty unique position with supplemental results that the labs paper's reviewer may want. If all the moons align there is a chance that I will end up with my name in something pretty high impact by the start of spring semester this year 👍
But thanks, yes, aside from what is essentially winning the med student lottery in projects, the rest of it is pretty slow going. My other classmate doesnt have results yet. Its a crap shoot

 

[Tribeca]

What is this picture? It looks like the end of a neuron/synaptic terminal thing.

I thought it looked like spermatozoon. 🙄

I think OP has a valid question. I was talking to a 4th year DO student who wants to get into specilized surgery (I forget which type) and mentioned that if the policy takes into effect in 2015, he can't get into an MD fellowship. OP needs that info so he can decide if he needs to work on being competitive for MD schools to get into the specialty he wants, assuming he's dead set on this and wouldn't change his mind down the road.

 

[Ost3oclast]

I think that if we see MD fellowships being closed off to DO's, the AOA might increase fellowship opportunities....hopefully atleast. Im really looking into a critical care fellowship after a gen surg residency.

 

[deleted103644]

I think that if we see MD fellowships being closed off to DO's, the AOA might increase fellowship opportunities....hopefully atleast. Im really looking into a critical care fellowship after a gen surg residency.

The DO residencies are already pretty sparse - you really think they can support that many fellowship positions?

 

[Ost3oclast]

The DO residencies are already pretty sparse - you really think they can support that many fellowship positions?

Probably not. Doesnt mean they wont "retaliate" somehow.

 

[Tribeca]

I'm wondering if this will later result in MD residencies being closed off to DO students as well? What was their reasoning behind doing it for fellowships?

 

[deleted103644]

I'm wondering if this will later result in MD residencies being closed off to DO students as well? What was their reasoning behind doing it for fellowships?

DO undergraduate medical education is mostly on par with MD education for now (although that may change with Caribbean players moving to US DO programs), ignoring historical silliness.

DO graduate medical education is not at all comparable to MD GME. For the most part it only takes place at small community hospitals, and there's much less oversight than for programs under the ACGME (which isn't perfect itself).

 

[Ost3oclast]

DO undergraduate medical education is mostly on par with MD education for now (although that may change with Caribbean players moving to US DO programs), ignoring historical silliness.

DO graduate medical education is not at all comparable to MD GME. For the most part it only takes place at small community hospitals, and there's much less oversight than for programs under the ACGME (which isn't perfect itself).

Im in total agreement. The only reason I have ever worried about going DO is the QUALITY of GME after graduation.

 

[Hemorrage]

OP here's your answer: currently it is possible to go into an MD fellowship after a AOA residency, however this will change very soon as the ACGME is pushing to limit MD fellowships to only MD residents. Additionally, applying to a high tier MD fellowship as a DO will be very hard as most of the FDs are old and biased against DO