Getting an MD from a DO school...

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A friend of mine that is accepted to a DO school is convinced that she will be able to "pick" whether she gets an MD or DO after graduation. Is there ANY truth in this at all??

Sorry if this is the dumbest post ever...
 
lol. no you can't pick.
 
not unless your friend lives in california and happens to have a time machine.
 
how do people with such limited knowledge get accepted in the first place?😕
 
sexyman said:
A friend of mine that is accepted to a DO school is convinced that she will be able to "pick" whether she gets an MD or DO after graduation. Is there ANY truth in this at all??

Sorry if this is the dumbest post ever...
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Is she also convinced that DOs are more into holistic care than MDs? :laugh:

Damn, she must be blonde ... 🙄
 
Kuba said:
how do people with such limited knowledge get accepted in the first place?😕
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Med school addmission cycle is like a game, you play the game the way they want you to play it, and you're standing pretty.
 
builttorock said:
not unless your friend lives in california and happens to have a time machine.
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Lives in California:
Check!
Happens to have a time machine:
Dammit!
 
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This is definitely the most original MD v DO thread we've seen in some time.

Kudos! 👍
 
ha I'm sure you all could tell from the tone of my post that I already knew the answer. However I am enjoying all of the responses! Pretty funny stuff, especially the time machine.
 
actually I heard the same thing. I heard it depends on the exams you take. I have actually seen someone with both an MD and a DO. I think it is true. Its not like a choice thing. More like a boards thing. It depends on the exams you want to take. Going to a DO school gives you so many more options. I think it is cool. DO schools all the way!
 
tinylilron said:
actually I heard the same thing. I heard it depends on the exams you take. I have actually seen someone with both an MD and a DO. I think it is true. Its not like a choice thing. More like a boards thing. It depends on the exams you want to take. Going to a DO school gives you so many more options. I think it is cool. DO schools all the way!
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My source comes from other DO doctors and students
 
tinylilron said:
actually I heard the same thing. I heard it depends on the exams you take. I have actually seen someone with both an MD and a DO. I think it is true. Its not like a choice thing. More like a boards thing. It depends on the exams you want to take. Going to a DO school gives you so many more options. I think it is cool. DO schools all the way!
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The only person with a true MD and DO is Dr. AT Still.

No offense but your sources are wrong and this is 100% inaccurate. For example, my brother is a DO and went to an allopathic residency. He is board certified through the allopathic world and he is still a DO.

I know that at some hospitals that he works at they give him an ID badge that says MD but that's just because they don't know any better.

All I know is that he took the USMLE exams, and board certified after after doing a residency at Wash U and still has a DO after his name.
 
tinylilron said:
actually I heard the same thing. I heard it depends on the exams you take. I have actually seen someone with both an MD and a DO. I think it is true. Its not like a choice thing. More like a boards thing. It depends on the exams you want to take. Going to a DO school gives you so many more options. I think it is cool. DO schools all the way!
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You, my dear, are clueless.
 
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tinylilron said:
actually I heard the same thing. I heard it depends on the exams you take. I have actually seen someone with both an MD and a DO. I think it is true. Its not like a choice thing. More like a boards thing. It depends on the exams you want to take. Going to a DO school gives you so many more options. I think it is cool. DO schools all the way!
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You're right - it's not a choice thing ... if you graduate from a DO school, you are a DO. Even if you do a hopkins residency, a mayo fellowship, and a harvard subfellowship, and score in the 99th percentile on all 3 steps of the USMLE, and scored perfect on a specialty board recognized by ABMS ... YOU ARE STILL A DO!!!

You can be a tenured professor and chair of the department of medicine at Stanford ... but if you graduate from a DO school, you're a DO.


If you want an MD, go to a school that grants the "Doctor of Medicine" degree, not a DO school. If you want a Big Mac, go to McDonalds, not Wendys.
 
group_theory said:
If you want an MD, go to a school that grants the "Doctor of Medicine" degree, not a DO school. If you want a Big Mac, go to McDonalds, not Wendys.
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Considering that Tinylilron scored a 20M on the MCAT, not much chance of her going to an MD school.
 
koennen said:
Considering that Tinylilron scored a 20M on the MCAT, not much chance of her going to an MD school.
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You know, it never ceases to amaze me that people will put up these obvious troll posts and hundreds of people (apparently, myself included) will respond to them. However, it surprises me not at all that someone will take any opportunity to take a "cheap shot" at another poster for a low MCAT score.

All I can say is Thank God that half of you, or more, will never actually make it to medical school. I have no desire to work beside people who have no tolerance.
 
koennen said:
Considering that Tinylilron scored a 20M on the MCAT, not much chance of her going to an MD school.
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Thats a bit unecessary.

And did you even get an interview at your top choice school?
 
The University of Health Sciences Antiqua has a program for D.O.s where you can sign up and after completing a residency program you are awarded an M.D. degree. I don't know why you'd want to do this, but I guess there are those who do.

http://www.uhsa.ag/pstudent/four/resdt/overview.htm
 
believe it or not this actually was not a troll post...you can look at all of the other posts I have made on this forum as credibility. Apparently there are people out there that do believe this...
 
tinylilron said:
actually I heard the same thing. I heard it depends on the exams you take. I have actually seen someone with both an MD and a DO. I think it is true. Its not like a choice thing. More like a boards thing. It depends on the exams you want to take. Going to a DO school gives you so many more options. I think it is cool. DO schools all the way!
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:laugh: I nominate this as most hilarious post of the year! :laugh:
 
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Being a DO or a MD depends on the degree you earn not which board exam or residency you complete. When you graduate from a DO school you will have a DO degree, you have no choice.
 
OMG!!....give her a break...I bet you didnt know that DO/MD degree thing at some point in your life. She should not have posted it as fact on her post because she was obviously misinformed but it still does not change the fact that she didnt know it to begin with. Show her that she is wrong and set the personal attacks aside with low mcats and such..I didnt know what a DO was two years ago and if I went on here to ask "what is a DO", I would have been called a troll and attacked, should I do my own research?...yes....but the lazy person i am would have found it easier to start a thread that someone would answer in two minutes. Anyway...you still need to fix your picture....a 39 mcat would not do anything to improve your chances until it is fixed...good luck:laugh:
 
cyclegirl said:
Being a DO or a MD depends on the degree you earn not which board exam or residency you complete. When you graduate from a DO school you will have a DO degree, you have no choice.
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Here I thought I was going to a "DO and/or MD, whatever floats your boat school" this whole time. Damnit. 😡 😡 😡



On another tangent -- Most common topics I've observed in pre-osteo vs pre-allo (paraphrased):

Pre-osteo
1) "{Is it possible to,How do I} get an MD and a DO degree?????????????" (extra question marks added for urgency)
2) "So I was at work in the hospital today and the guy who was there fixing the air conditioning said he gives orders to DOs! What do I do?!?!!?"
3) "I want to be a DO but I dont want to do Family Practice!! HELP!!!!"

Pre-allo
1) "Can I classify myself as URM?"
1a) "URMs are taking all of my spots!"
2) "Hopkins vs. Harvard (seriously, I don't know which one to pick!!)"
3) "I'm in 5th grade, what is the best middle school, high school, college, medical school, and residency to be a dermatologist?!?"

I 😍 SDN; many hours of amusement to be had. Keep up the good work guys 👍

PS - even though I quoted you, cyclegirl, this reply is not directed towards you.
 
cyclohexanol said:
Here I thought I was going to a "DO and/or MD, whatever floats your boat school" this whole time. Damnit. 😡 😡 😡



On another tangent -- Most common topics I've observed in pre-osteo vs pre-allo (paraphrased):

Pre-osteo
1) "{Is it possible to,How do I} get an MD and a DO degree?????????????" (extra question marks added for urgency)
2) "So I was at work in the hospital today and the guy who was there fixing the air conditioning said he gives orders to DOs! What do I do?!?!!?"
3) "I want to be a DO but I dont want to do Family Practice!! HELP!!!!"

Pre-allo
1) "Can I classify myself as URM?"
1a) "URMs are taking all of my spots!"
2) "Hopkins vs. Harvard (seriously, I don't know which one to pick!!)"
3) "I'm in 5th grade, what is the best middle school, high school, college, medical school, and residency to be a dermatologist?!?"

I 😍 SDN; many hours of amusement to be had. Keep up the good work guys 👍

PS - even though I quoted you, cyclegirl, this reply is not directed towards you.
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so basically if you want anything informative, you need to stay away from any forum with the prefix of "pre-anything"...:laugh:...try the allopathic or osteopathic threads...those seem to make more sense to me and a lot more reliable
 
cyclohexanol said:
Here I thought I was going to a "DO and/or MD, whatever floats your boat school" this whole time. Damnit. 😡 😡 😡



On another tangent -- Most common topics I've observed in pre-osteo vs pre-allo (paraphrased):

Pre-osteo
1) "{Is it possible to,How do I} get an MD and a DO degree?????????????" (extra question marks added for urgency)
2) "So I was at work in the hospital today and the guy who was there fixing the air conditioning said he gives orders to DOs! What do I do?!?!!?"
3) "I want to be a DO but I dont want to do Family Practice!! HELP!!!!"

Pre-allo
1) "Can I classify myself as URM?"
1a) "URMs are taking all of my spots!"
2) "Hopkins vs. Harvard (seriously, I don't know which one to pick!!)"
3) "I'm in 5th grade, what is the best middle school, high school, college, medical school, and residency to be a dermatologist?!?"

I 😍 SDN; many hours of amusement to be had. Keep up the good work guys 👍

PS - even though I quoted you, cyclegirl, this reply is not directed towards you.
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This post delivers!
 
sexyman said:
believe it or not this actually was not a troll post...you can look at all of the other posts I have made on this forum as credibility. Apparently there are people out there that do believe this...
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Since your "question" has been answered, I would encourage you to consider closing this thread, because, it's, well, just plain stupid.
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well...whenever i see posts like this i sorta have this itch to step in and articulate what i THINK the friend of the OP was saying....i think at some point in your career, the lines will get blurred for a couple of reasons...one, the letters mean nothing. Once you graduate, they are as arbitrary as calling a lawyer a JD or Esq...exception being legal documents of course and scripts...secondly, because you are likely to practice among mostly MD's you will probably often see your name being written as such...i played in a hopsital golf outing last year and the DO dermatologist i played with said everytime he doesn't write his name himself, it says MD...hes just gotten used to it, but technically it's a mistake. The other fact here is that a lot of osteopathic grads take the USLME's and do allopathic residencies. Not that they were unequal before this, but this is yet another testament to how arbitrary those letters are. Once and osteopathic grad, the degree of MD will never be awarded to you.
 
Perhaps the friend of the OP thought that someone who completed and MD residency as a DO was called an MD.

That can happen but they are still considered a DO.
 
HoodyHoo said:
The only person with a true MD and DO is Dr. AT Still.

No offense but your sources are wrong and this is 100% inaccurate. For example, my brother is a DO and went to an allopathic residency. He is board certified through the allopathic world and he is still a DO.

I know that at some hospitals that he works at they give him an ID badge that says MD but that's just because they don't know any better.

All I know is that he took the USMLE exams, and board certified after after doing a residency at Wash U and still has a DO after his name.
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You're right about A.T. But there have also been several true MD/DO's. Especially in the late 19th/early 20th c.
 
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koennen said:
Considering that Tinylilron scored a 20M on the MCAT, not much chance of her going to an MD school.
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Dude, common that's not cool. Anyways this is has been answered 100 times already on these threads. You graduate from a DO school your a DO PERIOD.
 
i want to play plingo to see what goes after my name.
ccom told me they'd work on it and get back to me.
 
Just my opinion, but I think the tolerance meter is set a little high here. Is there any good reason to have pages of responses to a question that shouldn't have even been asked in the first place? Please, flush this thread like the crap that it is.
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Kuba said:
how do people with such limited knowledge get accepted in the first place?😕
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lol. My point exactly :laugh:. Well maybe the friend was just 'joking' around?
Thats like me asking if i can choose to get a DVM instead of my DPM. 🙄
 
sexyman said:
A friend of mine that is accepted to a DO school is convinced that she will be able to "pick" whether she gets an MD or DO after graduation.
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What school did she get accepted to?

Perhaps a letter to the Dean of Admissions is in order! :laugh: 🙄
 
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