Limited Opportunities?

[WNT Signaling]

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You forgot thyroid. It's DM and thyroid problems and I can't personally think of a worse torture than dealing with those two things all day long. They couldn't pay me enough to do it. So, no, it's not all that competitive from my perspective 🙂

Obviously DM is not funny, but I always associate it with Wilford Brimley, which kind of makes me chuckle

 

[cliquesh]

I just had a similar dscussion with a urologist new to my area. He is a NSU grad who went on to do his residency at albert einstein in philly, a top rated MD program, and then a fellwship before becoming only the second DO at a very large practice. He told me he may have had to work harder to prove himself than some MDs in his program but none of them had an easy time...if you want to get into competative specialty, youre going have to put in the work regardess of your initials.

Not that it really matters, but the Albert Einstein Urology program is an AOA residency (DO only), that takes about 3-4 new residents a year.

 

[TexasPhysician]

That depends on how competitive the fellowship is. When the director of a really hot subspecialty is bombarded with applications, he/she may absolutely consider the applicants' respective medical schools while parsing through them.

I'm not saying they won't see it, I'm just saying that where someone went to medical school is as useful as where they went to undergrad.