Which D.O. schools have structured and pre-planned 3rd/4th year rotations?

[PotGoblinsales10]

I understand that some Osteopathic schools make you go to other hospitals in different parts of the country and pretty much search for your own rotations.

I understand that many (or all?) M.D. schools have their own hospital and let you do rotations there. Which D.O. schools are like this?

Which schools have structured rotations (maybe around their own hospital) so you are not left to fend for yourself and to search/ask other sites and hope they accept your rotation? I'd imagine they are few?

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[Cryc_to_the_point]

LMU-DCOM has 16 rotation sites. They are various sizes but you're not, "searching for your own rotations." They're set up, you can either set up additional rotations 4th year or do away rotations per your choice.

 

[fldoctorgirl]

From my understanding, most schools have "structured" 3rd year, but the sites just vary. So, instead of automatically going to the school's hospital, which tends to not exist in DO schools, you enter a lottery and get matched to a site. But, once you're matched, the school will schedule your rotations for you. For 4th year, good schools will have mostly electives which are your responsibility to schedule whether at an MD or DO school.

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

The only schools that have their own true teaching hospitals are OSU and Rowan. MSU has an extensive hospital network that is rather impressive as well, as does PCOM, OUHCOM, and TCOM (so the state schools essentially).

Every school will have structured 3rd year rotations, 4th year is more variable.

 

[jaguar33]

I believe most schools have a structured 3rd and 4th year. At CUSOM, you are assigned to 1 of the 6 regional sites in NC. We can do away rotations during 3rd year electives and for 6 months in 4th year. If you want, you can do your entire 3rd and 4th year in the same hospital. Hospitals in the link.

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[BellaWriterChic]

From what I have seen, 4th year is variable so you have room for audition rotations to areas you are applying to residencies for. That is why many schools set this up this way. There are programs that will not rank you as high if you do not put face time in to their hospital via audition rotations.


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[DO2015CA]

You want a structured 3rd year but not 4th year so you can do aways

 

[chazz21]

Touro Nevada has you set up to stay in Las Vegas for the entirety of your 3rd year rotations, and 4th if you'd like.

 

[deleted831695]

The only schools that have their own true teaching hospitals are OSU and Rowan. MSU has an extensive hospital network that is rather impressive as well, as does PCOM, OUHCOM, and TCOM (so the state schools essentially).

Every school will have structured 3rd year rotations, 4th year is more variable.

Last month, plans were officially announced build a new hospital on MSU land adjacent to the campus, so there's that as well (it'll be 2021 when it's done).

 

[Cryc_to_the_point]

Nice, the namesake of DCOM wants to build a hospital but it seems the geopolitical situation here is not very amendable.

 

[IslandStyle808]

I understand that some Osteopathic schools make you go to other hospitals in different parts of the country and pretty much search for your own rotations.

I understand that many (or all?) M.D. schools have their own hospital and let you do rotations there. Which D.O. schools are like this?

Which schools have structured rotations (maybe around their own hospital) so you are not left to fend for yourself and to search/ask other sites and hope they accept your rotation? I'd imagine they are few?

For the most part, a lot of schools already do have 3rd year rotations set up for you. I can in part understand your question because there are those unlucky few that had their rotations dropped in the past at the last minute. They had to struggle to find rotations, but they are in the minority.

As for 4th year, unless you go outside the hospital system of your rotation area, your school will help you schedule your rotations.

 

[IslandStyle808]

From what I have seen, 4th year is variable so you have room for audition rotations to areas you are applying to residencies for. That is why many schools set this up this way. There are programs that will not rank you as high if you do not put face time in to their hospital via audition rotations.


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To add to this, in auditions you are also getting LORs from rather reputable people. This can help in residency matching even in programs where you didn't do aways as well. For instance, some of the top matches in anesthesia (ex. at the level of MGH and Hopkins) have taken DOs who haven't even rotated with them. However, these DOs still did do aways at other MD residencies and probably got good letter from them.