Straight from a student.....

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It's comments like these that keep the MD vs DO debate/argument/pissing contest going on SDN. You yourself may not consider a DO stigmatizing, but referencing it as so leaves the field wide open for others to come charging in. Just sayin...

I disagree. There are stigmas throughout medicine. That doesn't mean they are warranted or justified. But he did nothing wrong in acknowledging their existence. In this case, there IS a stigma regarding Caribbean schools. Again, it doesn't matter whether it's accurate or not, but it's there and it's something those graduates will need to deal with upon applying for residency.

I don't know how much medical exposure some of you guys have but at least where I work, the doctors don't wear signs on their backs that list their medical school attended and I promise you the patients don't ask and they probably don't care as long as the doctor is good.

The director of vascular surgery at my hospital is a St. George's graduate.

Another vascular surgeon from SUNY downstate killed a patient while putting a central line in.

Another doctor, from Duke, had his license suspended because of negligence.

I could go on but I think you get the picture.

So it all depends on how you want to look at it.

MD, DO and Carib MD don't make a difference as long as you are doing what you do well. They all make bank too.

And if you can secure a residency, who really cares where you went to school?

This is what's known as anecdotal evidence without context. Yes, some kids who get vaccinated will also have autism. That doesn't mean one caused or is even correlated with the other.

 

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Take it easy man. I was just saying that you shouldn't discredit Caribbean grads. US grads make mistakes too.

Some people are leading some other people to believe that a US degree somehow equals superiority.

It does, at the very least in your prospects for residency applications. This has been thoroughly proven in prior threads (search away).

Furthermore, the plural of anecdotes is not data.