NYCOM or MCV

[docdancer]

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I just recently got accpeted to MCV in Richmond VA...I already have a apartment and everything in Long Island at NYCOM...I am so confused as whether I should lose all the money I put into NYCOM to move to Virginia. When I was speaking to a director of a residency program she told me that more doors would be open for me as an MD???

 

[DoctorDoogie4]

Dear DocDancer,

I hate to stomp on the DO parade, considering I will be a DO, but the program director is right. During my summer, I spent some time at a top notch research/academic center in which I met many program directors. All of whom were advising me to switch to MD so that my options be more open. There is still a stigma associated with the DO tag and it's slowly, I mean slowly, breaking down.

Doogie

 

[Drfting Sun]

The questions you've gotta ask yourself are:

1) Which is my top choice?

2) Which philosophy of patient care suits me best?

3) Then ask yourself about costs, arrangements, locale, etc etc...

It seems you don't really mind being an MD, since you applied to both MD and DO schools.

Now that you're faced with the dilemma: DO or MD school, and you're being pressured from truly-biased standpoints.. probably the best bet for you is to look inside during this crazy transition state, and take what you know, where you THINK you want to be in residency years, and what you KNOW yourself to believe is important to you...and decide from within.

It's ultimately YOU who will be wearing the coat, carrying the title, the responsibility, the debt and whatever residency experience you worked your hind end off to get.

I truly wish you well in your decision...right now, you probably cannot get enough info to make an "informed decision". Personally, I think it'd be fun to have to choose what letters come after my name: DO or MD...