So much for D.O. limiting one's options

[Goro]

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Antimicrobial Resistance Expert to Lead Division of Infectious Diseases - News Center

Jennie H. Kwon, DO, MSCI, associate professor of medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named the Gene Stollerman Professor and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, effective October 2025.

news.feinberg.northwestern.edu

 

[CBass2288]

you just love to see it. i hope COCA cleans up the dirt bag schools that are doing their students dirty (not holding my breath) and making the DO degree look bad, and that DOs start to get the recognition they deserve in medicine, which is simply that they are equal as physicians to MDs. I love to see the barriers slowly being broken down by those who deserve to lead the charge.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

But... prestige!!! 🙂

 

[pigsinacloth]

Honestly the real bottleneck is getting into residency. I think the real concern some residency programs have with DO students is they don't know what type of training they got in med school. The fact that your IM rotation can be 100% outpatient at some schools (from what I have been told) is wild. Some places are still not DO friendly, but I feel like that is going away in a lot of specilties. I would argue that there are places that are not anti DO, they are anti not the best (ie MGH, Hopkins, etc). So it's not that you're a DO and thus they don't like you. It's that you're a DO so your school did not help you to put together an actually amazing application.

This is not just old DO schools. This is new DO schools too. I reached out to a new one opening in my area to try and give the some tips on how to help their students and they were like no thanks we know what we're doing.