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- From: Kirk.Smith@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Kirk Smith)
- Subject: DO/MD Differences
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 03:13:59 GMT
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- I'm a 23 year old white American male, who's recently re-entered college
- at the community college level with hopes to become a physician. I've got
- about 2 more years of math and science at the JC before transfer to a
- university, so I'll be a bit older than most medical school applicants. I
- have some poor grades in my past (when I was fresh out of high school),
- but my grades have been much better over the past year or so. Still, I
- won't have a 4.00GPA when applying to med schools, no matter what I do.
-
- After speaking with a counselor, she suggested that I check into Osteopathy
- schools. According to her, they are a bit easier for someone like me to
- get into (older, not great GPA, but medical experience [I've worked in
- a hospital and am a paramedic, with lots of paid and volunteer experience]).
-
- I'm wondering what the general consensus of becoming a DO is. I know little
- about Osteopathic 'theory'. I do know that a local (California) cardiologist
- is a DO, and a local ER doc is a DO. Are there any limitations to what my
- specialty could be (ie: surgery, etc?). I understand most DOs are in family
- practice, which isn't currently my main area of interest (Emergency Medicine
- is my current area of interest, but I'd like to keep my options open at
- this VERY early stage in the game). What kind of differences in teaching
- could I expect? Any practice restrictions in various states?
-
- I'd appreciate any info anyone can give me (post or email, either is fine),
- or pointers towards books I could read on the subject.
-
- -Kirk J. Smith
-
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