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

MD currciculum, Basic Sciences Curriculum and Departments

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

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

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.