specializing as a DO

[Elizabeth]

Hi, I have been accepted at two osteopathic schools for next fall, both of which I really like. There is one aspect that concerns me though. I am interested in endocrinology, and since osteopathic physicians are traditionally known for practicing in primary care fields, I was wondering how hard it is to get accepted into a subspecialty fellowship with an osteopathic background. Anyone who is aware of any statistics or know anything about specializing as a DO, please let me know! I really like these schools, but this issue has me concerned. Thanks.

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[ms]

I cannot speak for osteopathic residencies, but for allopathic residencies, you should have no trouble obtaining a fellowship in endocrine. Please understand that in order to obtain a fellowship in endocrine, you must complete three years of internal medicine residency.

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[Elizabeth]

i heard from an endocrinologist that you have to be at the top of your class, in grades and scores, to get an endocrine fellowship....do you know if they are that competitive?

 

[prefontaine]

Endocrin is not competitve. In general, the procedural based fellowships are competitve, the non-procedural are not. BTW, IM residencies usually have written evaluations of house officers, generally do not rank them and do not give grades.

 

[Elizabeth]

This may be a stupid question, but what is the difference between procedural and nonprocedural based fellowships? Thanks

 

[rhillstr]

Procedures (such as endoscopy) are the things you get to do as a specialist that you charge exhorbant amounts of money for. In other words procedure specialists make more money. Just a thought, every specialist claims their specialty was the hardest to get into.

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