Pass up DO seat to reapply for MD?

[Lost Vagus]

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Seems like you have your mind pretty well up. This thread read to me as "convince me to go to DO school".

Personally I think you are making a big mistake if you give up your DO seat. You have a 6 in verbal and your mcat you said was low to mid 20's? That's not looking good. You probably need to raise your mcat at least 5/6 points. If having MD is important to you, do it. But I think it's a gamble and a waste of a year.

 

[acslater99]

The poll speaks for itself. Take the seat. You do not want to do this process again, do you? Do you what you want, but if I was in your situation I would take the seat.

 

[mct2762]

The poll speaks for itself. Take the seat. You do not want to do this process again, do you? Do you what you want, but if I was in your situation I would take the seat.

hey thanks for pointing the poll out. I could not even see the results until I clicked on it just now!

 

[petyr_baelish]

I personally think that TRI/transitional year thing is a bad idea. Just going to throw that out there.

Yeah, the ACGME ones are very difficult to get and the DO ones are still nly 1 year long, so no guarantee of advancement in the same way categorical residencies offer. Is this right?

I understand that while categorical residencies are technically 1 year long contracts that need to get renewed each year, someoone needs to screw up terribly in order to get fired from their categorical spot. But an intern graduating from a TRI may not match into a new specialty. Or if they do, they end up doing one more year of residency than everyone else.

 

[ArtOfWar]

I personally think that TRI/transitional year thing is a bad idea. Just going to throw that out there.

Care to explain why?

 

[cliquesh]

Care to explain why?

Pretty much what victoriah said. Additionally, you'd start your TRI/translational year in July and you'd apply for residency in September. Do you think you're going to impress the right people in 3 or 4 months? You are, like everyone else, going to terrible the first few months of your intern year. You're not going to impress anyone.

With that said, I did meet an MD who did a medicine intern year at Johns Hopkins and then matched pathology at john hopkins the following year, so maybe it will work.

 

[DrBowtie]

Pretty much what victoriah said. Additionally, you'd start your TRI/translational year in July and you'd apply for residency in September. Do you think you're going to impress the right people in 3 or 4 months? You are, like everyone else, going to terrible the first few months of your intern year. You're not going to impress anyone.

With that said, I did meet an MD who did a medicine intern year at Johns Hopkins and then matched pathology at john hopkins the following year, so maybe it will work.

They probably could have matched there without it. It's Path.

Mark me in the TY year plan as a terrible idea category.

 

[Chimichica]

QUESTION...so let's say you get into a DO school, then match your specialty at a DO residency program. Now you are a full fledge attending (not entirely sure how it goes), does it really matter? Likewise if you are allo and match your allo specialty, at the end of the day you are a physician. Your patient doesnt care if you are a DO, PA, MD, or NP...the point is that you give then accurate care and have a good bed-side manner. I feel like its easy to get caught up in the details, and details are important, dont get me wrong. However, the big picture here is that you want to be a practicing physician. what do you all think?

 

[mct2762]

QUESTION...so let's say you get into a DO school, then match your specialty at a DO residency program. Now you are a full fledge attending (not entirely sure how it goes), does it really matter? Likewise if you are allo and match your allo specialty, at the end of the day you are a physician. Your patient doesnt care if you are a DO, PA, MD, or NP...the point is that you give then accurate care and have a good bed-side manner. I feel like its easy to get caught up in the details, and details are important, dont get me wrong. However, the big picture here is that you want to be a practicing physician. what do you all think?

As a scribe, I've personally seen more than one occasion where a patient says they want to see a doctor, not a PA or NP. But that's beside the point

 

[dyspareunia]

QUESTION...so let's say you get into a DO school, then match your specialty at a DO residency program. Now you are a full fledge attending (not entirely sure how it goes), does it really matter? Likewise if you are allo and match your allo specialty, at the end of the day you are a physician. Your patient doesnt care if you are a DO, PA, MD, or NP...the point is that you give then accurate care and have a good bed-side manner. I feel like its easy to get caught up in the details, and details are important, dont get me wrong. However, the big picture here is that you want to be a practicing physician. what do you all think?

Everyone knows threads like these are meaningless post attending status. Too bad it is completely relevant for everything until then.

 

[pattr]

This thread... smh.

 

[mct2762]

This thread... smh.

I mean...if you didn't like it you didn't have to post on it..."smh"

 

[cliquesh]

QUESTION...so let's say you get into a DO school, then match your specialty at a DO residency program. Now you are a full fledge attending (not entirely sure how it goes), does it really matter? Likewise if you are allo and match your allo specialty, at the end of the day you are a physician. Your patient doesnt care if you are a DO, PA, MD, or NP...the point is that you give then accurate care and have a good bed-side manner. I feel like its easy to get caught up in the details, and details are important, dont get me wrong. However, the big picture here is that you want to be a practicing physician. what do you all think?

There are no DO pediatric surgery fellowships, which is why the OP has concerns.

Each field of medicine is very different. You will like some specialities and you will hate others. I personally could only tolerate anesthesia, radiology, and pathology as a medical student. It's best to keep as many options open in case you only happen to enjoy competitive specialities. Otherwise you might end up being stuck in a speciality you hate.

 

[RoyalAgent]

Take the DO seat. I have an MCAT score of 33 and a decent science and cumulative GPA but I'm still going DO. I also didn't apply to any MD schools and thought about waiting a year to reapply. In my scenario, I just applied very, very, late and ended up not applying to MD this year. I think I have a good chance at MD if I waited, especially since I'm really good at interviewing now and all my weaknesses have been covered. But, I also didn't have a full year planned out and would probably end up wasting that gap year, not to mention you'll have to pay if you want to take a trip abroad or do something to help your app. I would take the D.O. seat and if you're worried about a ACGME residency, then take both COMLEX and USMLE.

 

[cliquesh]

Take the DO seat. I have an MCAT score of 33 and a decent science and cumulative GPA but I'm still going DO. I also didn't apply to any MD schools and thought about waiting a year to reapply. In my scenario, I just applied very, very, late and ended up not applying to MD this year. I think I have a good chance at MD if I waited, especially since I'm really good at interviewing now and all my weaknesses have been covered. But, I also didn't have a full year planned out and would probably end up wasting that gap year, not to mention you'll have to pay if you want to take a trip abroad or do something to help your app. I would take the D.O. seat and if you're worried about a ACGME residency, then take both COMLEX and USMLE.

I had a 3.9 and a 30 mcat. I only applied DO. I regret not applying to MD schools, mostly because of the residency bias. The bias is real and no amount of hard work can overcome it.

Don't get me wrong, though. Being a DO is pretty awesome. It does, however, make the residency application process more difficult, and I think it's worth taking that extra year if you're a borderline applicant to apply or reapply to MD schools.

 

[mct2762]

I had a 3.9 and a 30 mcat. I only applied DO. I regret not applying to MD schools, mostly because of the residency bias. The bias is real and no amount of hard work can overcome it.

Don't get me wrong, though. Being a DO is pretty awesome. It does, however, make the residency application process more difficult, and I think it's worth taking that extra year if you're a borderline applicant to apply or reapply to MD schools.

What did you do your residency in? How long ago? Why did you only apply DO?

 

[WalSlave]

If specifically being a peds surgeon is more important to you than being a physician in general, then go for it. Otherwise, I don't think you realize the magnitude of the gamble you are about to take by giving up your DO acceptance. DO schools will blacklist you for it, so your DO days will be over for good. So if you can't pull off MD, then you will have thrown away being a physician all for a specialty that you maybe sorta wanted to do. I honestly think you have more of a chance of becoming a DO peds surgeon (which has happened) than dropping your acceptance, pulling your MCAT up, and somehow slipping into a MD school without them realizing that you were already accepted to a med school once.

 

[cliquesh]

What did you do your residency in? How long ago? Why did you only apply DO?

I graduated last year and I matched acgme anesthesia. All of the physicians I knew at the time happened to be DOs.