Turning Down a US MD acceptance to go DO?

[Oso]

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Future asdf333 is a physician who can afford to drop $3000 on a fancy pair of boots if future asdf333 really wanted them

hmm. do not recommend, whether you're MD or DO.

 

[naway]

hmm. do not recommend, whether you're MD or DO.

I didn't say OP should, just that they could to give some perspective on how different $3000 will look to them as a physician 😛

 

[MD-2022]

MD FTW

 

[Deecee2DO]

No question, go MD. It simply opens more doors just as everyone else said. Most of the advice on this thread is coming from both DO and MD students saying you should go MD. 100% go MD.

 

[Wilf]

Maybe in a few decades, one day the DO stigma will be gone, and they will be equal to MDs when it comes to opportunities. However, today is not that day.

Doubtful that will ever happen as long as there continues to be quite a disparity in the stats of students admitted. If I were a DO I would not like the rate at which they are opening new schools with large class sizes. Seems degree mill-ish which is not good for our field in general but could also backfire worse on DOs.

 

[naway]

Doubtful that will ever happen as long as there continues to be quite a disparity in the stats of students admitted. If I were a DO I would not like the rate at which they are opening new schools with large class sizes. Seems degree mill-ish which is not good for our field in general but could also backfire worse on DOs.

That crap unsettles me even now as an incoming MD student. We've all seen what happened to the legal profession once law schools started pumping out graduates left and right and over-saturating the market. Of course, it's not as easy to over-saturate the market with physicians since the number of residency spots won't increase proportionately, but we'll all still suffer the significantly increased odds of failing to match due to insufficient residency spots. I would have overall been happy as a DO, but man am I glad I won't have the AOA "representing" me.

 

[Goro]

Doubtful that will ever happen as long as there continues to be quite a disparity in the stats of students admitted. If I were a DO I would not like the rate at which they are opening new schools with large class sizes. Seems degree mill-ish which is not good for our field in general but could also backfire worse on DOs.

The stigma is not die to stats of students (this is more a pre-med delusion), but to the quality (or lack thereof) in clinical training. Many COMs also seem incapable of writing MSPEs that PDs can relate to.

I think everyone outside of the AOA agrees with the bolded!

 

[sadkmladkds]

OP did you make your choice yet? Hoping you went md 🙂

 

[BestoFriedo-Todo]

OP did you make your choice yet? Hoping you went md 🙂

Yeah, I'm going MD.