specializing after d.o/caribbean school

[premed85]

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does any one know if its really hard to specialize after going to a D.O school or the carribeans?...like if you want to go into anesthesiology will it be really hard to get into residency?

 

[Bacchus]

does any one know if its really hard to specialize after going to a D.O school or the carribeans?...like if you want to go into anesthesiology will it be really hard to get into residency?

DO - No; Carib - possibly.

 

[TexPre-Med]

Depends on what you mean by specializing. D.O. and Foreign will both restrict you. D.O. not as much. Foreign-very much

 

[Revenant]

DO and Carib's are two totally different ballgames...

 

[Meatwad]

There is a clause in the licensing boards of 65% of the US states that states only 10% of residency spots can be allocated for the bottom of the barrel grads; a.k.a. DOs (they should call them DOnt's) and IMGs from the Caribbean schools (should call them the Crappean schools). So yeah, it's practically impossible.

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Seriously, this has been addressed 10,000,000 times in the past month alone. I have written beautiful, flowery treatises on this issue. Dig up the ancient thread, I'm sure it's buried far away, like on page 2.

 

[osli]

does any one know if its really hard to specialize after going to a D.O school or the carribeans?...like if you want to go into anesthesiology will it be really hard to get into residency?

Going to a DO school will make it more difficult to get into an allopathic residency for some specialties and then usually only for some programs. But there are DO only residency programs available for almost every specialty, which pretty much makes up for the more difficult road you may face in some allopathic settings.

It is even possible that in some cases, like orthopedics, it is easier to find a residency spot than is true in the allopathic world due to number of spots to number of applicants ratios. But I certainly wouldn't bank on that.

As for the example you provided, I know of many allopathic anesthesiology programs that are very welcoming of DO applicants. That might not be true everywhere.

Carribean graduates typically have a tougher time once you get outside of primary care residencies, as they can only apply to allopathic residencies and stat-for-stat are at a disadvantage to US graduates.

 

[PeepshowJohnny]

I know a couple Ross graduates who are going ino subspecialties next year (one out of Medicine, the other out of peds, both reasonably competitive. Not Cards/GI competitive, but competitive). They hard to freakin' bust their ass of course, and network like mad, but they did it.

It's very hard. but just because you didn't go to a US allopathic school you won't get a fellowship isn't true.