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[Faze2]

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May be a stupid question, yes there are.

When you are a DO student, you don't follow around DO's exclusively do you? You follow MD's too right?

 

[CommanderRiker]

If we don't follow M.D.s around, there will be serious defecencies in our education. 😱

 

[Krazykritter]

If we don't follow M.D.s around, there will be serious defecencies in our education. 😱

First...You're an idiot. Your medical education during your M3 & M4 years is what you make of it. Defecencies (sic) are have little to do w/ who you rotate with since, in the real world, there is very little difference in practice btwn. DO's & MD's.

To specifically answer your question OP...We are only required to have 22 of our 80+ weeks of rotations done w/ DO's. However, the definition of "DO time" is a little lax b/c it counts if your rotation is at an approved osteopathic training facility even if no DO's are there, a DO as the GME, are DO as your supervising physician....There are plenty of opportunities to easily fufill this requirement. At least that is what my school requires, don't know about any others.

 

[Static Line]

Stupid is as stupid does--Forest Gump

Stupid question gets stupid answer -- Static Line


How do we beam people into space for good?

 

[VALSALVA]

There was about a 5 month stretch during my fourth year where I don't think I even saw a D.O. KCOM has no minimum D.O. contact time that I'm aware of.

 

[DragonWell]

Stupid is as stupid does--Forest Gump

Stupid question gets stupid answer -- Static Line


How do we beam people into space for good?

Remember, children, there are no stupid questions, only stupid people.

-Mr. Garrison

 

[StrengthDoc]

There are no stupid questions, but....

 

[Faze2]

Stupid is as stupid does--Forest Gump

Stupid question gets stupid answer -- Static Line


How do we beam people into space for good?

Well, maybe it was stupid for someone who is currently in DO school, but for someone like me who is not a medical student and sees a lot of med students each day and the DO students that I have seen are following around DO physicians, I thought it was a pretty legitimate question.

 

[CatsandCradles]

May be a stupid question, yes there are.

When you are a DO student, you don't follow around DO's exclusively do you? You follow MD's too right?

Hi Faze,

At the place I'm at, we have more MD teaching us than we do DO faculty. Now the health center has more DOs than MDs. I'm sure some of the other public schools are the same too.

At Oklahoma, the osteopathic program there has Edward Golgian MD as head of the pathology department. You probably don't know who he is, but as you progress through your medical education, you will soon see that every single medical student in the nation knows who Golgian is.

Yes you will follow MDs on your rotations as well. Much of it will from school to school.

 

[Krazykritter]

It's GOLJAN, blasphemer. Thou shalt not spell the god of Intergation & Pathology's name incorrectly.