MD vs DO with regards to fellowships

[Dr. Vinnie Boombatz]

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If you have two doctors one an MD the other a DO in the same allopathic residency, does being a DO put you at a disadvantage compared to the MD when it comes to applying to fellowships?

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

Depends on too many factors to say. What fellowship? What residency? What kind of research has either of them done? Important people in that field associated with their residency willing to go to bat for them and make phone calls?

 

[Sleepingdoc]

And this would be more in the idea that their performance in the residency and the support from than residency has much to do with fellowships than Your medical school

Exactly, there are so many factors than just DO or MD.. First you have to be a physician before you can be in a fellowship... Premeds are not really at that point yet.