Letter from a DO??

[hi-polymer]

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I work in an ER and have one physician who is a DO I think would write a great letter of rec for me. Should I use it for my AMCAS application or should I get one from an MD and use his letter from my DO app only?

 

[Catalystik]

I work in an ER and have one physician who is a DO I think would write a great letter of rec for me. Should I use it for my AMCAS application or should I get one from an MD and use his letter from my DO app only?

MD schools don't care about the type of medical degree. DO employment letters are fine.

 

[Medicine016]

DO would be perfectly fine unless they explicitly request an MD letter as a requirement (which none of the schools I applied to did).

 

[gyngyn]

Generally speaking, MD schools really don't want a "physician" letter. A few request a "clinical" letter that can come from anyone who supervised you. Some undergraduate schools seem to want one for a committee letter (a slick way to confirm shadowing).

DO schools love a DO letter, though.