Residency Question

[ClaytonB543]

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[DrMom]

You don't apply to residencies through your school and you are not limited to what they offer.

 

[cabinbuilder]

Residency is like applying to medical school. You pick those you are interested and apply to them. They interview who they think is a good fit for their program and rank applicants and your rank your top picks. The match is a computer trying to make both sides happy based on rank lists. It has nothing to do with where you go to school.

 

[NotAProgDirector]

Agree with the above, but remember that in order to get a good residency spot, you'll need letters of recommendation from people in that field. In general, letters from a place that has an EM residency might be seen as "more valuable" than not -- part of that is that the letter writer might be known to the letter reader, part is the ability of a letter writer to say how well you did compared with the EM residents that they have. So, I agree that you'll be able to apply for an EM residency even if your DO school doesn't have one. But, if you had a choice, I might favor a DO program that does have one, or seriously consider doing an away rotation (i.e. an EM rotation at a school that does have an EM program). Medical schools usually allow you to do exchange rotations like this, although the process can be difficult, time consuming, and (sometimes) expensive.

 

[smq123]

Moving to pre-osteopathic.

 

[ShyRem]

residency is totally separate from medical school. when evaluating a medical school, do NOT look at their residency positions in terms of seeing if they are a good path for your future. One has little to do with the other in the DO world. There are some MD schools where if you are in their school you have a better chance of a residency spot there, mostly because you do rotations at their attached hospital and they know you well. DO schools do not have attached hospitals and thus do not have that built in structure.

 

[ClaytonB543]

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[JaBoomDay]

Hello! My question: I'm applying to some DO schools this summer and I'm curious about how residencies work. I want to apply to PCOM-Ga. They do list some residencies on their website, but not one that is in Emergency Medicine. Does this mean that I cannot apply to an ER residency through PCOM-Ga? Or can I apply to any ER residency in the country? Is it like med school where I can apply anywhere if I meet the reqs or am I only limited to the ones that my DO school are connected to?

Hope I'm not confusing lol. Thanks.

Just FYI, osteopathic schools are medical schools.

 

[ClaytonB543]

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[uwfargodwill]

residency is totally separate from medical school. when evaluating a medical school, do NOT look at their residency positions in terms of seeing if they are a good path for your future. One has little to do with the other in the DO world. There are some MD schools where if you are in their school you have a better chance of a residency spot there, mostly because you do rotations at their attached hospital and they know you well. DO schools do not have attached hospitals and thus do not have that built in structure.

Just off the top of my head what about Oklahoma state university college of osteopathic medicine and Oklahoma state university medical center? Or even the new one...Alabama college of osteopathic medicine being an actual educational branch of a teaching hospital?

 

[cabinbuilder]

Just off the top of my head what about Oklahoma state university college of osteopathic medicine and Oklahoma state university medical center? Or even the new one...Alabama college of osteopathic medicine being an actual educational branch of a teaching hospital?

Doesn't mean they will automatically take you in the residency just because you went to the medical school. The prior post was meant as a generalization rather than an absolute.

 

[JaBoomDay]

Yes, I understand, I was using the term "medical school" to describe the method in which one can apply. They are def medical schools 🙂

I was at an interview talking to another applicant about applying to DO schools. She said that she originally wanted to apply to MD school but really bombed the MCAT so she "gave up on medical school all together and decided to only apply to D.O. schools."

Probably not a good thing to say on an interview...

 

[ClaytonB543]

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