rotations at Wash U in St Louis

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[Bitsy]

Unfortunately there is no way around this. I too tried to get a rotation set up through WashU for St. Louis Children's Hospital. I even e-mailed the clerkship coordinator and asked to make sure this "only U.S. and Canadian LCME" was an oversight and it wasn't. I did send a letter to the AOA and they said they were having their lawyers draft a letter to WashU. Unfortunately that probably won't make any difference either. Bottom line: WashU is one of the few elitist places that won't accept D.O.s to do elective rotations. The weird thing is that they have accepted D.O.s into some of their residencies.

 

[bigDinLV]

Rush is the same way. Ironically, they are rather DO friendly for residency positions though.

 

[Buckeye(OH)]

Rush is the same way. Ironically, they are rather DO friendly for residency positions though.

Correct, Rush does not take DO students. They love DOs for PMR and anesthesia. They WILL NOT take a DO for gen sx or ortho or anything else surgical...or maybe they will but they havent previously. On the flip side, every Rush student I know personally is a douche.

 

[DH78]

Correct, Rush does not take DO students. They love DOs for PMR and anesthesia. They WILL NOT take a DO for gen sx or ortho or anything else surgical...or maybe they will but they havent previously. On the flip side, every Rush student I know personally is a douche.

 

[strawberryfield]

sucks about WashU, I know they have DO residents. 🙄 that needs to be fixed, they are missin' out on some damn good med students!

 

[norhpen]

The only Wash U residents I've seen who are D.O.'s are in their emergency medicine program or psychiatry. There are no D.O.'s in the medicine program or surgical program that I know of. There is one fellow who is an anesthesiologist, but doing a critical care fellowship, one in transplant surgery, and one in nephrology, me. Attendingwise, there is one in GI, one in trauma/critical care, and I think one in PM&R who is with orthopedics. That pretty much sums it up, I can count all of them with the ten fingers on my hands.

Personally, I've had a great time at WUSTL. Great cases, great research, once you get past some of the elitist crap 😉.