JMT
11-14-2006, 04:49 PM
Do you feel an osteopathic education is equivalent to a MD education? I'm speaking in terms of classes that we take. I noticed for example when I look at DO school's websites, their psychology (psychiatry) class is only a few weeks (like 3 or 4), versus MD spends a whole semester on it. Are the clinicals different as well, in a MD we rotate (mandatory cores) through surgery, psych, obgyn, peds, IM, in a DO do they go through all these clinicals or mainly FP and IM and the rest is optional?
example:
DO curriculum , its a new school LMU DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine (http://www.lmunet.edu/DCOM/curriculum/preclinical.htm)
MD currciculum, Basic Sciences Curriculum and Departments (http://sgu.edu/website/sguwebsite.nsf/Medicine/BASICSciences.htm)
example:
DO curriculum , its a new school LMU DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine (http://www.lmunet.edu/DCOM/curriculum/preclinical.htm)
MD currciculum, Basic Sciences Curriculum and Departments (http://sgu.edu/website/sguwebsite.nsf/Medicine/BASICSciences.htm)