Heme/onc as a DO

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[skapoor89]

I'm an incoming first year also interested in oncology. I did a small research paper on complementary and alternative medicine to cancer and took 2 classes (molecular oncology and cancer chemotherapy) as part of my masters program. Any advice would be great! I've been searching as well and couldn't find anything.


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[Petypet]

I am not in heme/onc, but I did my PhD and then a post doc in peds heme/onc and am looking @ heme/onc. This path is completely feesible as a DO but you have to play your cards right. Your main priority is to get into a residency program that has a history of putting students into heme/onc fellowships. Once you are there you can meet faculty and do research & get mentored in how to obtain fellowship. Generally this is at larger, university-based residencies, and so you need to focus on getting in there. Rock the USMLE, do a little research while in medical school, and get good grades 3rd year and you should get plenty of interviews. Just keep in mind about the IM programs you are looking at. Plenty of programs put students into fellowships but not necessarily into heme/onc.

 

[SnowDoggy44]

Kevin Hubbard, DO is the physician expert resource on cancer for the AOA and is the IM dept chair at KCUMB-COM. He's a super nice guy and loves medicine and teaching. His fellowship was at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He may be able to point you in the right direction for getting training at a major research institution, and his contact information is listed on the KCUMB website below.

http://www.osteopathic.org/inside-a...enter/expert-sources/Pages/kevin-hubbard.aspx
http://www.kcumb.edu/departments/bio/?employeeId=362

 

[DrWBD]

I am not in heme/onc, but I did my PhD and then a post doc in peds heme/onc and am looking @ heme/onc. This path is completely feesible as a DO but you have to play your cards right. Your main priority is to get into a residency program that has a history of putting students into heme/onc fellowships. Once you are there you can meet faculty and do research & get mentored in how to obtain fellowship. Generally this is at larger, university-based residencies, and so you need to focus on getting in there. Rock the USMLE, do a little research while in medical school, and get good grades 3rd year and you should get plenty of interviews. Just keep in mind about the IM programs you are looking at. Plenty of programs put students into fellowships but not necessarily into heme/onc.

This is solid advice, and what I would recommend as well. I would add that the programs you should be looking at should be ACGME primarily.

Kevin Hubbard, DO is the physician expert resource on cancer for the AOA and is the IM dept chair at KCUMB-COM. He's a super nice guy and loves medicine and teaching. His fellowship was at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He may be able to point you in the right direction for getting training at a major research institution, and his contact information is listed on the KCUMB website below.

http://www.osteopathic.org/inside-a...enter/expert-sources/Pages/kevin-hubbard.aspx
http://www.kcumb.edu/departments/bio/?employeeId=362

It's doubtful that one could replicate his career path today. He trained in the 90s when oncology/hematology was a wide open field and one could get away with training at an osteopathic hospital prior to an ACGME fellowship. Not likely to happen today.

 

[hindthcameb]

agree,He trained in the 90s when oncology/hematology was a wide open field and one could get away with training at an osteopathic hospital prior to an ACGME fellowship. Not likely to happen today.thanks

 

[Dharma]

Cleveland Clinic has DOs in Heme-Oncfellowship. I would say feasible. One thing at a time though. Do your thing.

 

[Mosonik]

Just saw a commercial from "cancer treatment centers of america" today with a DO interviewed in it as the director for pulm/cc or something... these days I get the impression it isn't your initials that will open/close 99% of the doors but instead the quality of doctor you are. Let your daily work speak for itself and heme/onc is very obtainable

 

[Dr. Zombie]

But at the job prospects decent for Heme/Onc, if you are fine working on the outskirts of urban areas/suburbs?

 

[Mosonik]

But at the job prospects decent for Heme/Onc, if you are fine working on the outskirts of urban areas/suburbs?

Today? I don't know. That likely depends on the community itself you are looking at. I tend to be a big picture thinker and estimates from the WHO and a variety of other scientific communities project that cancer occurrences (unfortunately) are expected to rise by 57-75% over the next 20+ years. I think with the rapid expansion of medical knowledge, pharma, and technology you would be entering a secure field with great potential/need.

 

[Mehd School]

Just saw a commercial from "cancer treatment centers of america" today with a DO interviewed in it as the director for pulm/cc or something... these days I get the impression it isn't your initials that will open/close 99% of the doors but instead the quality of doctor you are. Let your daily work speak for itself and heme/onc is very obtainable

Is this the same place that touts an ND on staff? It's besides the point, but I got a good chuckle out of it nevertheless.