Should D.O. be changed to include the letters M.D. somehow? (M.D.o, DO,MD, o.M.D

[MichiganDO]

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This thread is intended to poll the osteopathic SDN community's opinion surrounding the issue of changing the professional title of D.O. to a title such as M.D.o, M.D.O., DO,MD, ect.

Please do not use this thread to post personal opinions about the subject.
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[Tired]

Please do not use this thread to post personal opinions about the subject.
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Boy, that's a quality sampling technique if I've ever seen one!

 

[TexasTriathlete]

I want to change it to ODB

 

[Taurus]

I have a better idea. Change all DO's to MD's. If your degree doesn't say MD, it stands out. Soon, people will think no difference between DO's and DNP's. The nurses would like that.

 

[bkpa2med]

I'm an advocate for DO, MD. Do you think the AOA would do anything if 80%+ of all students wanted it that way?

 

[SomeDoc]

Will this really be an issue later down the road, if more than, if not close to, 20% of the physician population will be DO's? All I know is that we're seeing major changes in the DO profession regarding growth- there may be some significant changes in the future, especially with the aging and consequent retirement of older physicians.

 

[CorpusERdoc]

This thread is intended to poll the osteopathic SDN community's opinion surrounding the issue of changing the professional title of D.O. to a title such as M.D.o, M.D.O., DO,MD, ect.

Please do not use this thread to post personal opinions about the subject.
Information gathered from this poll is intended for use in current research
surrounding the issue.

Thank you for your participation!!

You should break up the poll to pre-meds, med students, residents, attendings.

I think you'll find a huge skew in the results if you do.

There's no reason to change it. You are still a physician either way.

 

[Ferrismonk]

Not that I'm for changing the title or anything, I happen to like DO. But if the degree I'm going to get is a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, shouldn't it be DOM? As far as I understand it DO stems from the older version Doctor of Osteopathy. Besides, all those people who got DO tatoos can easily change them to DOM. 😀

 

[CorpusERdoc]

Not that I'm for changing the title or anything, I happen to like DO. But if the degree I'm going to get is a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, shouldn't it be DOM? As far as I understand it DO stems from the older version Doctor of Osteopathy. Besides, all those people who got DO tatoos can easily change them to DOM. 😀

DOM = Doctor of Oriental Medicine

 

[ShyRem]

DOM sounds too much like we just joined the mafia.

 

[DOanesthesia]

There's no reason to change it. You are still a physician either way.

Agree 100%. What does changing it accomplish?

 

[scpod]

Information gathered from this poll is intended for use in current research
surrounding the issue.

Are you refering to "scientific" research? This poll has about as much science to it as America's Next Top Model. You might as well flip a coin: Heads = add the M; Tails = leave it the same.

 

[cyclohexanol]

This is lulz.

Your poll didn't have an option for my beliefs, so here they are:

The degree will never be changed because there are too many forces at play against change.

Instead of trying to change the degree itself, how about lobbying state legislatures to allow any physician or surgeon licensed to practice in that state to use the letters MD post-nominally to indicate role/training/qualifications/whatever you want to call it. That way anyone who is a physician or surgeon, but earned a DO, MBBS, MB ChM, MDCM, etc. can advertise as what they are - medical doctors - and be recognized as such in the United States where medical doctor status is largely recognized by those two little letters.

I'm not sure how we got stuck in this mode of using earned degrees as post-nominal letters to signify status. There are plenty of examples where the post-nominal letters don't reflect earned degrees at all; they just signify what that person is trained to do (RN, RD, etc...).

This approach allows DOs and future DOs to keep their earned degree the way it is and always has been. It also allows those DOs who want to be recognized as MDs to do so, AND those DOs who do not wish to change their degree to stick with DO to do so as well (because no degree is changing).

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Flame on

 

[Amy B]

Closing because we just had this same topic going on for some time and can already guess this one will get as ugly as that one.....