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I get what your saying this is also the reality of DO schools in general but it also has to do with DO students not pursuing those specialties, that definetly has a role in it. Like I said, if you want to do something competitive you can do it from any DO school and the match list proves it. It might only be 15 out of 225, I wouldn’t say 425 cause the Knoxville class hasn’t even graduated a single student yet if I am correct? Also people who do IM and Peds do end up sub specializing...So a couple things, mainly your comments on DCOM students marching into competitive residencies. Sure it happens, but at a much lower proportion than say MSUCOM or an MD program. Just because we had 1 student match neurosurgery in 2016 doesn’t mean we have a stellar match list every year with tons of people going into varied competitive specialties. The reality is we have <15 people per year matching into ortho+ tier residencies Out of a class or 225 (425 now I guess).
if 2/3 of your students are matching into IM/FM/Peds then it is NOT a competitive match list. Period.
you go to DCOM odds are you’re probably going to end up doing outpatient family med or hospitalist work. That is your reality. like I said earlier, when you make the conscious decision to attend this school you need to temper your expectations. This is not a surgeon/sub specialist factory. We mass produce FM/IM docs, and that’s okay.