I have not shadowed a DO, but have shadowed a surgeon and general physician, does anyone know of which DO schools that do not penalize applicants that do not have DO letters and shadowing experience?
DO Schools that accept MD letter
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http://www.aacom.org/docs/default-source/cib/2016_cib.pdf?sfvrsn=22
Here you go. Just scroll through that.
I would avoid schools that require a letter from a DO or 'strongly advise' you submit letter from a DO
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That answered above, do yourself a favor and find a DO to shadow. They may not require it but that doesn't mean it doesn't benefit you. You have time and it can earn you points during interviews. It also helps when they are judging you on your why DO. How do you really know if you've never shadowed. It's like blowing off the most easy thing to do in your application, the one thing you can control.
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There are tons of ways to get shadowing exp. I list a dozen in a past thread, you could do a few and find one. Not finding one is a weak excuse in interviews unless you live somewhere like Northern Alaska, so if they ask don't say that.
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I'd say it's dependent on school culture. I went through the CIB and nixed any schools that required or strongly advised a DO letter of rec. I got plenty of interviews after using my MD physician letter and it never came up.
One school asked me how I learned about osteopathic medicine, or what kind of exposure I had to it, or something like that. I told them it took me years to realize my family practice physician was a DO and that, at least in how he treated me, I couldn't see any difference between him and the MD's I had seen in the past.
Edit: My follow-up point to that question was that, difference or not, I thought my osteopathic doctor was a very competent doctor who was always kind and showed a lot of respect for his patients in how he treated them, and that that was the kind of physician I wanted to become. Not directly pertinent to the conversation I know, I just didn't want to give the impression that ending the discussion at "I don't see any difference" was a successful strategy.
One school asked me how I learned about osteopathic medicine, or what kind of exposure I had to it, or something like that. I told them it took me years to realize my family practice physician was a DO and that, at least in how he treated me, I couldn't see any difference between him and the MD's I had seen in the past.
Edit: My follow-up point to that question was that, difference or not, I thought my osteopathic doctor was a very competent doctor who was always kind and showed a lot of respect for his patients in how he treated them, and that that was the kind of physician I wanted to become. Not directly pertinent to the conversation I know, I just didn't want to give the impression that ending the discussion at "I don't see any difference" was a successful strategy.
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I had only shadowed MD and got 4 II out of the 6 I applied to.
That being said, just do yourself a favor and go shadow a DO.
That being said, just do yourself a favor and go shadow a DO.
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