Since I was bored when I read this, and have been avoiding studying this week, I decided to look at the web page for the Emergency Medicine Resident's Association to see if I could get any facts. I clicked on the link for SAEM residency catalog. Within this link, I looked at all of the programs listed on the same page, and also looked at the osteopathic programs under that link. I understand that this probably isn't a complete list, but I looked over 40 programs, and whenever the department chair, residency director, or assistant/associate residency director was a D.O., I copy pasted their name into the AMA physician finder to find out where they went to school. This is a total of what I found from looking at both DO and MD programs. The distribution of school representation between allopathic and osteopathic programs was similar, so I just lumped the numbers together. Here is what I found:
DMU: 7
KCOM: 6
PCOM: 6
CCOM: 3
MSUCOM: 3
NOVA: 2
UHS: 2
OSUCOM: 2
COMP: 2
OUCOM: 1
WVCOM: 1
NYCOM: 1
UMDNJ: 1
UNECOM: 1
DMU and KCOM were the most spread out, with grads all over the U.S. PCOM's directors were all in PA, except one, and I think he was in NY. OSUCOM's were all in OK. There were alot of D.O.s in charge of programs in Texas, yet none of them were from TUCOM.
ER might not be the best residency to have looked up, but I figured that primary care is in demand, so where you went to school shouldn't matter so much, and I just chose ER as a prototype for researching where D.O. PDs are from. I'm sure there are more programs, but I doubt that sampling them all would change the ratio.
So JP was right about which school have more PDs, but I don't think that having alot of PDs in your own state is anything to dance on the bar about, especially for a school that has been around for over 100 years. Poor PCOM
(Sorry, had to take a potshot - no offense intended)
Overall, I have no idea if it matters where you go to school, and dont' really care, because even if it did, can't change it now
- Doc Oc
UNECOM Class of 2005