MD vs. DO military match?

[dock10]

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May be pulling out my bat for beating a dead horse here, but I am applying to DO and MD schools, and am 100% on applying for HPSP. From those with experience, is it more difficult to match with the specialty of choice in the military with DO school, assuming all boards would be the same?

Is it more difficult to match in military residencies as a DO, all boards being the same, a-la-MD residency?

 

[DrMetal]

May be pulling out my bat for beating a dead horse here, but I am applying to DO and MD schools, and am 100% on applying for HPSP. From those with experience, is it more difficult to match with the specialty of choice in the military with DO school, assuming all boards would be the same?

No it's not difficult. If you do well in school (good grades, good board scores, good audition rotations as a 4th year etc etc), you should be competitive. DOs compete well for almost every specialty in the mil . . just work hard towards it.

 

[J-Rad]

My impression from having worked around all three services and a little bit from reading this board: for the most part no difference between MD/DO in Navy and Air Force, but a more notable difference in more competitive specialties in the Army.

 

[NontradCA]

I know that Balboa for instance; won't consider DOs in their residencies. That's Navy.

 

[DwightSchruteDO]

We had one DO, navy student match IM at Balboa this year.

 

[corpsman33]

I know that Balboa for instance; won't consider DOs in their residencies. That's Navy.

Absolutely false. I worked at Balboa (aka Naval Medicine Center San Diego) for five years and they took tons of DOs in their residencies.

The year before I left to med school I knew of two DOs in anesthesia residency, DOs in ortho residency, and DOs in practically every specialty but those are just two competive specialty examples.

There is a point system when applying to GME2 which takes into account COMLEX/USMLE, grades, research, prior service, GMO tours, etc and while their is a little bit to the point system that is subjective, the majority of it is objective and they really can't ignore it. So basically if you are a DO or MD and you have the points they really can't ignore you as a viable candidate simply because you are a DO.

NontradCA, didn't mean to throw your post under the bus (I know you are a fellow Corpsman too), but I just didn't want to lead other SDN members astray.

 

[NontradCA]

Absolutely false. I worked at Balboa (aka Naval Medicine Center San Diego) for five years and they took tons of DOs in their residencies.

The year before I left to med school I knew of two DOs in anesthesia residency, DOs in ortho residency, and DOs in practically every specialty but those are just two competive specialty examples.

There is a point system when applying to GME2 which takes into account COMLEX/USMLE, grades, research, prior service, GMO tours, etc and while their is a little bit to the point system that is subjective, the majority of it is objective and they really can't ignore it. So basically if you are a DO or MD and you have the points they really can't ignore you as a viable candidate simply because you are a DO.

NontradCA, didn't mean to throw your post under the bus (I know you are a fellow Corpsman too), but I just didn't want to lead other SDN members astray.

No worries at all. Thank you for pointing that out and sorry for the misinformation. I was actually going by what a General Surgeon DO told me (maybe its just GS) who I thought wouldn't give me false info. That's good to know and I'm glad.

 

[Bacchus]

We matched a DO into Uro this year at Walter Reed, army.

 

[TheGoose]

almost every specialty (sans some of the surgical subspecialties)

 

[Oo Cipher oO]

Anyone else notice OP's original post disappear and now J-rad is in the OP position. wtf?

 

[NurWollen]

Anyone else notice OP's original post disappear and now J-rad is in the OP position. wtf?

I did notice that there were five posts, I could have sworn there were six, but I didn't come check it out until your post brought it back to the top and it showed six again. Weird. If an OP is a gold donor he can delete his/her own thread or post, right?

 

[Oo Cipher oO]

I did notice that there were five posts, I could have sworn there were six, but I didn't come check it out until your post brought it back to the top and it showed six again. Weird. If an OP is a gold donor he can delete his/her own thread or post, right?

Yeah but I thought that would automatically delete the thread too. Hold on I'm going to test this on my own.

Edit: I tried it out and deleting the original post deletes the thread too. Weird

 

[NontradCA]

Yeah but I thought that would automatically delete the thread too. Hold on I'm going to test this on my own.

Edit: I tried it out and deleting the original post deletes the thread too. Weird

 

[DrMom]

I'm not sure what happened, but I was trying to merge this thread with the other thread on the same topic by the OP. Somehow ended up with this.



*edit*

Fixed it.