It's also important to note too while a vast majority of pod students choose pod school because it was their only option after getting a bio degree/masters and not getting into Med school and can't stand the prospects of pharmacy school (prolly 60%) a solid minority actually choose pod over DO school (around 20-30%) because of the surgery aspect, which is far less certain for Osteopathic graduates, unless you are top dog. I would say the remaining 10% of the class does pod school because they had a mentor who was a pod and wanted to do it since they were little.
I met people on the interview trail who had been accepted to DO school but were interviewing at the top pod schools hoping to get into pod.
Anouther thing to note that while I have seen people turn down DO acceptances for Pod, I have never seen someone turn down a MD acceptance for pod.
Deff take a look at it. Pod schools are ridiculously easy to get into if you have a GPA above a 3.1 and an MCAT above a 492ish.
Also, no shelf exams 3rd and 4th year. And Boards are pass fail cuz everyone knows what specialty they are going to be matching into.
People may ask "what's the catch it everything seems so good?" Well, that's anouther nice thing, we know the catch. It's bright in neon lettering. You gotta deal with feet, ankles, and the occasional leg problem.
And deff shadow! I was super dismissive pod pods till I did. I always thought they were like 3rd rate doctors till I shadowed one and actually see what they did. They are physicians and surgeons through and through. They order labs, they drain pus, they remove foreign bodies, they hammer joints and fuse them together.
"High class" nerosurgeons, orthopedic doctors, cardiothroastric surgeon doctors might look down on you, but they would have done that if you had gone into a less prestigious field anyway.
Well congrats, last I saw you were going to go to pod school. And I do agree with this.
