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MD vs. DO
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There's like a hundred threads on this, some of them heated. Search the forums.
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The main reason why this has become a pressing problem for me is that my brother is about to go to DO school and I want to find out if he is making a good choice. He got into 13 DO schools, all of the Carribean big 4, and wait listed at 3 US MD schools.
He should have applied to more md schools....They are both medical doctors, but a lot of individuals are ignorant of that. A friend of mine chose the Carib route over DO. She is at Ross now, swimming...
While you can still match into the US from a Carribean school, I think the general consensus is to hope he gets off the MD waitlist, but plan to attend the best DO school he was accepted at.
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What were his stats? Going DO = going US MD if he knows wants to do primary care. If he knows he wants to specialize or do surgery then US MD would be the better route. He might want to reapply if that is the case.
Regardless, he should not even consider going to the Caribbean if he is accepted to a US school (MD or DO). Caribbean should be a last ditch effort of someone who has gone through 2 or 3 application cycles and has gotten ZERO US (MD or DO) acceptances.
Are you kidding me? You are clearly a troll judging by your replies on pre DO. Get a life.
I wish my brother was in your position. I never thought I would wish for anything else in my life after I opened up the envelope and found out that I matched in orthopaedics at Duke.
Again...modern day DOs arent even close to limited to primary care.
I am a DO student and the only thing I regret is having to waste my time learning OMM..since it is really not for me.
So you are claiming to be a resident...but know nothing about DOs. Nice try.
You started 3 of these posts, all with the same title. One was more than enough
I want to get a response right away. Back when I was applying to med school 8 years ago things were much more concrete.
I have never worked with a DO before because we do not have any at Duke Ortho.
LOL I was thinking the same thing.
I want to get a response right away. Back when I was applying to med school 8 years ago things were much more concrete.
I have never worked with a DO before because we do not have any at Duke Ortho.
It's not a question of being limited. It's a question of preference from residency directors of competitive programs (ie - rads, optho, ENT, derm, etc.)
btw I'm referring to MD residencies here since even DO students admit that MD residencies are better than DO residencies (heck most DO students go to MD residencies over their own residencies).
If you have two identical students in terms of grades and board scores but one went to a low-tier MD school and the other went to a high-tier DO school then the MD school guy would be given preference over the DO guy at a radiology residency.
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It's funny that an "orthopedic surgery resident at Duke" would post exclusively in the pre-medical forums. What kind of a pathetic nerdlinger lies about being a resident?
The OP is just trying to rile people up. He posted this is pre-Allo/pre-Osteo, and Allo/Osteo (4 separate threads). Probably some pimply-faced freshman in college snickering with 1 of his overweight friends. No job. In his mom's basement. Sweet dude. Get lost
We will see who will be laughing in a couple of years when I will be making $500,000
We will see who will be laughing in a couple of years when I will be making $500,000
maybe you can use that $500,000 to pay someone to show you how to not double-post every time you are trying to quote someone
What a douche. I hope I never have enka operate on me.
Whatever you say, Melvin.
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then make sure to have a proper daily calcium intake and avoid risky activities which could cause damage to your skeletal system
TO ALL THE HATERS:
At the end of the day, Ummmm, all the people who are rooting for me to fail, ummm, at the end of the day, they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today, they got the same personal problems they had, today. You know, and Im gonna continue to live the way I want to live, and continue to do the things I wannna do with me and my family they gotta get back to the real world at some point.
At the end of the day, Ummmm, all the people who are rooting for me to fail, ummm, at the end of the day, they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today, they got the same personal problems they had, today. You know, and Im gonna continue to live the way I want to live, and continue to do the things I wannna do with me and my family they gotta get back to the real world at some point.
with a response like that you must be a premed
ignorance like this will cause you to fail your USMLE step 1
DOs have to go to school longer than MDs.
DOs get paid less than MDs.
DOs don't get free parking or free lunch like MDs.
DOs live in the closet under the stairs, while MDs are the favorite child.
DOs have to bow in the presence of MDs.
DOs use homeopathic methods, where MDs use real medicine.
(paraphrased from another post)
DOs get paid less than MDs.
DOs don't get free parking or free lunch like MDs.
DOs live in the closet under the stairs, while MDs are the favorite child.
DOs have to bow in the presence of MDs.
DOs use homeopathic methods, where MDs use real medicine.
(paraphrased from another post)
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1)WOW you just quoted Lebron to prove that you weren't a troll? I'm sure that REALLY helped.
2)There is now way you would have made it through medical school and some of residency NOT knowing what a DO is
3) How the f@$% were things more concrete back then? THEY WERE THE EXACT SAME
4) There's this amazing thing called google that you can use if you don't want to come on here and get hated on.
5) OR if you don't know what Google is, there's a search function on this website.
Now please, for the love of everything good, go learn something today instead of thinking people are hating on your because they're jealous.
Did you just say Lebron is the worst player in NBA history? This thread is full of haters, You must be from Ohio.
Well things have been so easy for me in my life with my 41 MCAT; that I have always been in a DO free environment. Most of my classmates in med school did not even consider DO school because they all had 35+ MCAT scores.
What kind of opportunities are you talking about? I'm really confused here...
Do you want him to have the ability to match at one of the top ten academic orthopedic residencies in the country (HSS, Harvard, Mayo, UW, NYU-HJD, Iowa, WashU, Pitt, Rush, Jefferson)?
Do you want him to have the ability to match at one of the ten best orthopedic residencies based on training (Brown, Emory, Carolinas, Utah, Campbell Clinic, Rochester, Vanderbilt, UCSF, Wisconsin, UPenn)?
I don't think you meant either one of those, because you didn't even do that. I guess that means you want him to be able to just match at Duke just so he can say he did his residency there. Since that's the case, go D.O. because there is a past history where Duke has taken D.O.s for residency (link).
Duke taking a DO for residency is as rare as man in a vegetative comatose waking up and winning the lottery the next day
Stop taking him seriously...
MD residencies ARE better. And MD residencies SHOULD take an MD student over a DO student....theyre an MD residency after all.
You did however post that unless you are going into primary care you should go MD. And that is what I was reponding to. DOs dont really have any issues matching into most residencies...save for the most competitive specialties....and most MD students have issues matching to them as well. I dont really understand why difficulty matching to RODS (not really gas because DOs are generally successful matching) is commonly used as a reason to not go to a DO school....when most MDs and DOs arent gunnin for ROADS. Anyways, not starting a fight, just speaking my mind about the main misconception that floats around here on SDN. I am one of the most outspoken DO students on here regarding downfalls of the DO pathway...but DOs are def not limited to primary care.
There are 3 DOs currently in Duke's family med residency program...thus 1/4 of duke's family med program are DOs.
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