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So I've long had the age-old MD vs DO debate with myself. Whenever I reviewed the osteopathic principles, however, DO always won out, hands down. I was always particularly impressed by the following philosophies:
-The human organism is self-regulating and self-healing.
-Disease in any body system will affect the entire body.
-The work of the physician includes assisting the patients own body in fighting disease.
On Tuesday I interviewed at my first DO school, Touro-CA. I asked our student tour guide a curiosity that's been plaguing me: How exactly are these more holistic philosophies integrated into the curriculum? In other words, how exactly or in what capacity is DO taught differently than MD? Particularly after learning that some (or maybe just one?) DO school students take the classes in their first two years side-by-side with MD students, I'm more interested than ever to learn the distinction between MD and DO curriculum.
Our tour guide's response was that he found that the holistic aspects of osteopathic medicine were a myth and basically the main difference between MD and DO is the incorporation of OMM in the latter. Is this true? What do you guys think?
Thanks for your help in advance!
-The human organism is self-regulating and self-healing.
-Disease in any body system will affect the entire body.
-The work of the physician includes assisting the patients own body in fighting disease.
On Tuesday I interviewed at my first DO school, Touro-CA. I asked our student tour guide a curiosity that's been plaguing me: How exactly are these more holistic philosophies integrated into the curriculum? In other words, how exactly or in what capacity is DO taught differently than MD? Particularly after learning that some (or maybe just one?) DO school students take the classes in their first two years side-by-side with MD students, I'm more interested than ever to learn the distinction between MD and DO curriculum.
Our tour guide's response was that he found that the holistic aspects of osteopathic medicine were a myth and basically the main difference between MD and DO is the incorporation of OMM in the latter. Is this true? What do you guys think?
Thanks for your help in advance!