Just Curious

[DrMarx]

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So, I had an interesting thought and I'm wondering if you guys can lend me any insight.

Lets say you had a phenomenal student, very good grades in undergrad and osteopathic medical school. Now, lets say that same student wanted to go into a specialty in which not many DO's get into. Would that student get rejected because of his degree?

Also, sorry if I'm beating a dead horse here but I have one more question. Comparing MD to DO, does the DO curriculum leave out anything that the MD degree curriculum has? To my understanding, the DO degree has an extra focus on osteopathic (medicine?) comparing to the MD degree which has the same curriculum but leaves out the osteopathic focus. Thanks for reading!

Also, just for the sake of future argument, the student in question wants to go to DO school.

 

[cliffhuxtableDO]

Please: 1) stop trolling. 2) use the search function.

I'll save 3 for later. I'm hoping this thread will die, and there won't be a 3.

 

[FrkyBgStok]

That thought isn't interesting at all. Instead of making threads and asking questions that have been answered a hundred thousands times, used the next 3 years in college to figure out what exactly you want to do. As a freshmen, worry about grades and ECs and if you still don't know the answer when you are a junior, look more. Also if you can't decide between dental school, podiatry school, and med school, you need to do that first.

 

[NontradCA]

That thought isn't interesting at all. Instead of making threads and asking questions that have been answered a hundred thousands times, used the next 3 years in college to figure out what exactly you want to do. As a freshmen, worry about grades and ECs and if you still don't know the answer when you are a junior, look more. Also if you can't decide between dental school, podiatry school, and med school, you need to do that first.

There's like 6 threads on this on the first page.

 

[JGimpel]

 

[Goro]

NO!

Lets say you had a phenomenal student, very good grades in undergrad and osteopathic medical school. Now, lets say that same student wanted to go into a specialty in which not many DO's get into. Would that student get rejected because of his degree?

NO

Do your homework.

Also, sorry if I'm beating a dead horse here but I have one more question. Comparing MD to DO, does the DO curriculum leave out anything that the MD degree curriculum has? To my understanding, the DO degree has an extra focus on osteopathic (medicine?) comparing to the MD degree which has the same curriculum but leaves out the osteopathic focus. Thanks for reading!

 

[darklabel]

NO!

Lets say you had a phenomenal student, very good grades in undergrad and osteopathic medical school. Now, lets say that same student wanted to go into a specialty in which not many DO's get into. Would that student get rejected because of his degree?

NO

Do your homework.

Also, sorry if I'm beating a dead horse here but I have one more question. Comparing MD to DO, does the DO curriculum leave out anything that the MD degree curriculum has? To my understanding, the DO degree has an extra focus on osteopathic (medicine?) comparing to the MD degree which has the same curriculum but leaves out the osteopathic focus. Thanks for reading!

Ahh you forgot to quote it Goro, I was almost confused since you're an Adcom, I thought you were maybe just being facetious

Anyways OP is a pre-pod student so I can't take him seriously 😉