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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)

Taus61
11-17-2006, 11:36 AM
The education is pretty much identical. The only notable difference is OMM class and lab.

Here is a link to the rotation schedule at my school:
PCOM - Third- and Fourth-Year Programs (http://www.pcom.edu/Clinical_Education/Third_and_Fourth_Year_Programs/Third-_and_Fourth-Year.html)

As you can see we have rotations in EVERY core specialty and room for electives in whatever we want.

Here are our hospital affiliations:
PCOM - Affiliate Lists (http://www.pcom.edu/Clinical_Education/Affiliate_Lists_/affiliate_lists_.html)

I've never really posted on this site before and have realized one major difference b/w this and SDN where I usually post: This is an IMG heavy site and opinions are largely swayed in that direction. SDN's DO specific forums are way more DO-student heavy then valuemd...thus opinions seem swayed that direction.

My point: Take everything you read w/ a grain of salt, read b/w the lines and only trust facts.