heres an honest question from an oms-0.
If we stagnate our matriculating students. How does this affect the fact that america is in need of more and more doctors (cant remember whether what organization said it but I read it somewhere...), if I understand correctly DO's have been filling that void, as AMA hasnt been opening new med schools as quickly as DO schools (much slower if im correct).
They say by my grad class (2012) do's will be 20%+ of practicing physicians. I'm not really going to be happy until DO's = 50% and I see this physician shortage as a means to get closer to that number. Now i'm not saying we should mindlessly open schools and pump graduates, but if AMA opens much more schools to fill the void of physicians, then MD entrance scores will be depressed, and more will go MD route over DO, that 20% figure will remain stagnant or possibly drop, and DO's still get the 'whats a do' question.
Over the past few years i've noticed entrance scores for schools (i'm sure PCOM and im pretty sure others are similar) have steadily been increasing, not enormous amounts but still... I think the 2005 or 06 numbers for pcom was ~27mcats, 3.25gpa? theres some swing to those numbers but I don't think they're particularly bad... I was talking to an MD physician who said years ago a 27 on the mcat was pretty good and could have gotten you into allo route...
I guess i'm saying i support regulating school expansion, but definately not limiting it...
. How many legitimate posts (meaning people actually responding to the question) will we get until the thread gets closed? I think 32.
because it was that much easier....😱 you can get where you want to go by going either route, anyone who has MD or DO after their name didn't have it any "easier" than the other to get where they are.
