My dad who is an attending at a medical university was telling me that the new DO and caribbean grad residents weren't doing as well in his specialty program compared to the MD students and even the foreign medical graduates. Surprising to me...because the area he lives in has a huge and pretty well known DO school.
But typically in his program, he selects MD, then DO or foreign grads, then caribb, then the americans that go out of the country to med school and try to come back. But then he emphasized the importance of standardized test scores. Even playing field for all.
In fact, one of those people I'm referring to is now a DO student and would not have even applied before I told him about it. Other than that, there are certain people that need to go to the best schools in the country, wanted to be an "MD" since they were little - not a physician, those who do not believe in Osteopathic medicine, the non-traditional students who DO schools tend to like (the more well rounded, experienced the real world, is sure this is what they want applicant) who usually have less than stellar grades and MCATs, and the list goes on... in the end though, you're physicians, full privelidges in the entire country by law and work side-by-side in the hospitals and clinics, use the same billing codes, insurance providers, etc.
