Just a question.
Started by OPS18
random results from google:
http://www.whcenter.org/body.cfm?id=558236
http://metrc.org/Bios/fullbiozych.html
http://www.medicine.nevada.edu/Residency/lasvegas/surgery/faculty/Jay_Coates.html
http://www.christianacare.org/bodymod.cfm?id=169&action=detail&ref=21382
http://lawnwoodmed.com/our-services/trauma/trauma-center-surgeons.dot
http://www.whcenter.org/body.cfm?id=558236
http://metrc.org/Bios/fullbiozych.html
http://www.medicine.nevada.edu/Residency/lasvegas/surgery/faculty/Jay_Coates.html
http://www.christianacare.org/bodymod.cfm?id=169&action=detail&ref=21382
http://lawnwoodmed.com/our-services/trauma/trauma-center-surgeons.dot
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Ive heard trauma isnt very difficult to get into. Nobody wants the crazy hours? Not sure. I would enjoy it though.
What exactly do you mean by "MD bound"?
It's actually a pretty good job if you do shift work.
Personally I would love it. If I can manage to squeeze myself into a G-surg residency I would go on and attempt the critical care fellowship.
Means he is applying MD, probably with weak stats and is trying to convince him being a mere DO will be ok.
To answer the OP, you can do ANYTHING as a DO you can do as an MD. The degree doesn't make the Dr. You decide how you will perform, how you will score, how well you will develop your clinical skills and ultimately how bad you want to be XYZ.
My plan is to apply to certain MD (UM, UF & UCF) and DO (Nova & LECOM) schools, including the med school in St. Maarten (even though I've heard that is pretty hard to get residency for a Caribbean MD). I've spent several weeks studying osteopathic medicine and I absolutely love everything about it. But the reality is that I have greater chances of getting into a surgery (and later into a trauma surgeon fellowship) residency as a MD than as a DO (PLEASE, educate me if I'm wrong) and that's why I consider myself "MD bound".
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I honestly feel that for this specific instance you could be wrong. Nova (although Lecom has access to it as well) has a great location in Largo that has had great reviews (particularly because of the schedule and how they treat their residents and medical students) that has a gen-surg residency and medical students could also do rotations there.
Go to a US MD school if you can....I was just at two trauma surgery conferences, and it was all MD's...keep in mind, you only need be average in med school to match gen surg.
You wont practice the DO philosophy in trauma anyway, so there no point. You have better residency program choices as an average MD student, or you'd have to be a top 10% DO student to match into those.
Either way, you will most likely change your mind in med school, like most people do and not end up pursuing trauma
You wont practice the DO philosophy in trauma anyway, so there no point. You have better residency program choices as an average MD student, or you'd have to be a top 10% DO student to match into those.
Either way, you will most likely change your mind in med school, like most people do and not end up pursuing trauma
You will have no problem getting into General Surgery going the DO route. You could get into a DO surgery program easy, and probably MD if you did pretty well. I'm not sure about the fellowships though, but again if you know your stuff, people will respect you, and you can get a spot almost anywhere MD or DO.
It is at the very least irresponsible to say that you can do anything as a DO. the stigma exists and is very real in certain fields.
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http://www.pcomsurgery.org/Program-Alumni.php
It doesn't seem to be an issue currently. However, things may change if the ACGME changes their fellowship rules.
PCOM is not indicative of all DO schools.
I would not count on getting a surgery fellowship after doing an AOA G-surg residency. I don't know about other current students, but I got an email at the beginning of the year telling me that it was probably not going to be allowed by the time I was a resident. If thats the case then the chances of a DO student becoming a fellowship trained surgeon will go down.
That's shocking news, I really hope that things turn green for DOs pursuing fellowships.
Just get into an ACGME program as a DO, and then your options will still be open no matter what.
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http://cookcountytrauma.org/?p=05_Cook_County_Trauma_faculty
Cook County "Stroger" is known all over Chicago for its trauma. This guy is on staff in some form at Midwestern as well. This guy is also a SWAT cop. Definitely a candidate for the most interesting man in the world award.
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/dec/26/nation/la-na-surgeon-cop26-2009dec26
Cook County "Stroger" is known all over Chicago for its trauma. This guy is on staff in some form at Midwestern as well. This guy is also a SWAT cop. Definitely a candidate for the most interesting man in the world award.
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/dec/26/nation/la-na-surgeon-cop26-2009dec26
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