will DO students have hard time getting good residencies in near future?

[Black Mamba Gene]

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residencies like orthopedic surgery, cardiology, or oncology

I just calculated my cGPA if I get a 4.0 this upcoming summer and it will be a 3.4 overall gpa and 3.45 science gpa (a lot of part time and low credit quarters due to work)

my practice mcat scores have been around 508-513


I am 24 years old and my plan was to only apply to only osteopathic medical schools this upcoming September after I graduate. However, I have been reading that first to second-tier residency specialties will be hard for osteopathic medical students to get in the future due to the merger. Is this true? I am asking, because then I am more inclined to take a year off, do a DIY post bacc and more volunteer experience and apply MD. I want to keep my options open when it comes to residencies in the future and do not want to limit myself to only family/internal medicine.

Thank you for your time.

 

[DelayedGratification]

This question has been beaten into the ground. Search around the forums.

 

[LukeCage]

with mamba mentality anything is possible

 

[de Ribas]

 

[Isoval]

Not really.

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[Shotapp]

Improve your app for MD. Are you URM?

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

For starters I suggest using the search function. After that you have a lot to catch up on. 2 of the 3 things you listed aren’t even residencies and there are lots of DOs that do them.

 

[eberge3]

No they will not. Look at current match lists.

 

[DrStephenStrange]

Cardiologists go to Internal Medicine (IM) residency then do a Cardiology fellowship. There are different types of Oncologists (pediatric oncologist, radiation oncology, surgical oncologist...), so there's not a specific oncology residency, but depending on which one you want you might just need to go to residency or having to do a fellowship after residency as well.

Now back to the original question. No, I don't necessarily believe it's going to get harder to get a good residency, but it might get harder to get into certain types of residency but not all. You can look into the DO match lists for this year. There have been some pretty good ones, but I guess we'll only know for sure after the merger in 2020.

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