That study you all are looking at is only internship. My school (no secret name here) chooses to underreport what specialties our students go to. They get more funding if they say that more people are doing Osteopathic family medicine, IM, ob/gyn, or pediatrics. So, if you match into something competitive, they only report your internship. As you can tell by my name, Florida requires an osteopathic internship (until the new amendment goes throug). So if you plan on staying or coming back, you need to do an osteopathic internship. With that being said, most osteopathic residencies have the internship included. However, many competitive specialties such as Anesthesiology, Radiology, etc in the Allopathic match require that you finish an internship prior to beginning. This gets even more complicated in the fact that the osteopathic match happens before the allopathic match. If you match DO, you get pulled out of the DO match before you get the chance to match. I have many interview offers in the Allopathic match which I am choosing to go with. Some include their internship year. If I match for an Osteopathic internship, I do not even get the chance to match for the programs with internship included. Therefore, I am scrambling for internship, something that is not too hard in this area. As another note, our school gives you about 2 weeks to report where you are going. If you choose to not fill out the data or are out of town, your results do not even get reported on that poll. I know 2 people matched for allopathic radiology in 2004 at our school, yet I think that study says no one matched at our school. At my school, most students in competitive specialites choose to do the Allopathic match because most Osteopathic residencies are in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio (all very cold states). At the same time, IM and Family medicine people tend to do the DO match. There are many Osteopathic programs in our area in those specialities. Hope that this answers your question....in other words, do not worry about the study you see. Ask students who are at the school directly.