Residency Question

[Rotinaj]

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DO really looks a lot more appealing to me for a number of reasons:

• Increased focus on doctor/patient relations.
• Most of the DO students I've read on this forum seem much more personable and less obsessed with professional success.
• Training sounds like it tends to be more hands-on versus research oriented.
• The extra training in muscle manipulation and holistic methods seems like it can only be beneficial to have in your aresenal as a doctor.

Also, I'm assuming that if you do a good job, DO will be just as competitive for pre-scramble residencies. Am I making any false assumptions here?

I was reading that DOs can apply for allopathic residencies and osteopathic residencies, but can MDs apply for osteopathic residencies?

As a DO, do you have to choose one or the other or can you apply to both in the same year?

 

[EEL08]

MDs cannot apply to osteopathic residences. Well I guess they could try but they would not be successful. (Sorry just having a Friends moment). Osteopathic students can apply to both but I believe there are certain stipulations regarding timing. Someone else here will almost certainly know more than me about this.

 

[scpod]

... can you apply to both in the same year?

You can apply for both but the osteopathic match comes first. If you match then, you are automatically removed from the allopathic match.

 

[Rotinaj]

That actually sounds ideal to me.😀

 

[JaggerPlate]

That actually sounds ideal to me.😀

Janitor ..... or should I call you, Dr. Jan Itor??

Anywayzzz ... yeah, the DO residencies are great, and hopefully will continue to expand and be well organized as number of students applying to DO schools continues to increase.

 

[DrMidlife]

Important to know: you have to take two sets of boards if you go to DO school and want to do an allo residency. DO has the COMLEX exam, and MD has the USMLE. They're not hugely different, but it's an extra step vs. your classmates who do DO residencies.

I assume this is for both step 1 and step 2, although I don't think I've ever seen anybody specifically mention that.

If you dig around on aamc.org and aacom.org, you can find stats on what percentages of what residencies are filled by DO's vs. MD's, stuff like that.

Best of luck to you.

 

[JimT30]

Important to know: you have to take two sets of boards if you go to DO school and want to do an allo residency. DO has the COMLEX exam, and MD has the USMLE. They're not hugely different, but it's an extra step vs. your classmates who do DO residencies.

I assume this is for both step 1 and step 2, although I don't think I've ever seen anybody specifically mention that.

If you dig around on aamc.org and aacom.org, you can find stats on what percentages of what residencies are filled by DO's vs. MD's, stuff like that.

Best of luck to you.

Not entirely true, there are alot of allopathic residencies that accept COMLEX

 

[sexyman]

You can apply for both but the osteopathic match comes first. If you match then, you are automatically removed from the allopathic match.

I am under the impression most students DO match. So what is the strategy if you want to go to an allo residency? Sit out of the DO match? Or could you make your AOA match ridiculously hard to get into? This way you wont be disapointed either way... For example only put Neurosurgery residencies on your list?

wow there are a lot of ? on there, my bad.

 

[Toohotinvegas33]

I am under the impression most students DO match. So what is the strategy if you want to go to an allo residency? Sit out of the DO match? Or could you make your AOA match ridiculously hard to get into? This way you wont be disapointed either way... For example only put Neurosurgery residencies on your list?

wow there are a lot of ? on there, my bad.

It depends on want residency you want and how big your cojonas are. Your best opportunity for something competitive is to apply to both AOA and ACGME matches. If you want to skip the AOA match altogether and apply only ACGME you can also do that. For primary care type residencies you will likely get a spot, but for competitive specialties you chances drop exponentially if you apply only ACGME. If you do had skipped the AOA match and did not match in ACGME, then you can still scramble into an AOA residency or acgme residency. Word on the street is that some AOA program directors will leave a spot or two open for the scrambles from the acgme match because they are usually strong canidates.