If your scope of practice is the same as MDs, why even bother with the title ??? in all seriousness, I doubt it you are a real DO.....Many DOs do train along side of most MDs in US Residency, and have no problems with it....you are a physician !! DO/MD......accepted in all 50 states......

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well, my question is why aren't you trying to transfer into a US allo med school?

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I have friends in DO schools, NYCOM, West Virginia and Lake Erie to be exact. They all like the school they are attending and I don't think they'd go to any offshore school if given a choice. It is a fact that there are way more MDs (including IMGs) than DOs in the states I want to practice in. Once I start practicing no one will care where I went to school, but my title will be MD. For me, MD is my choice, but for others DO my be a better choice. Personally, I'm looking forward to the adventure. I have spoken with many grads from Ross who are now in private practice and fellowship and they all say the same thing, that are happy with their choice.

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Interesting!!!!! I have not really thought of this before. from DO to MD well, there is always the first time to every thing. I am sure there is away about it. My suggestion?.....call all the big 4 to speak with program directors not the clarks that answer phone calls cos they are only good at that. Good luck

Wow, this thread was started in November 2005 and you're still giving this person advice

Is there any truth to this?

in CA...yes...that did happen

in NY...no

Interesting I happened across this. I started at PCOM in 1986, took a (now defunct) exam called the Medical Science Knowledge Profile during my third year. I did fairly well in the exam and was accepted as a transfer student to Albany Medical College, had to redo my third year and got my MD degree. Best thing I ever did!! Never have to explain the "DO difference" to anyone, opened professional doors that would otherwise have been closed. Transferring wasn't a well known practice then, I stunned some of my fellow DO students at the time ("You can DO that?!"), I would think in the age of the internet that this practice is better known, am I wrong?

There are a small number of DO students that transfer to LCME schools each year. The following schools consider them, though I am aware of schools not listed that have accepted DO transfers. Search By Policy | Transfer Policies Reports

So you tacked on an extra $30,000+ in debt, your loans continued to accrue interest for another year, and you lost a year of your life where you would be making $100,000+. That's the best thing you ever did? It says "osteopathic medical student" on our students' coats and "osteopathic physician" on our physicians' coats. I have had exactly 1 patient ask me what osteopathic meant while I was checking pupillary reflexes during a physicial, to which I responded "many years ago there were differences in philosophies between osteopathic and allopathic, which is an MD, educations but today they practice the same type of medicine" to which her response was "oh ok." Sounds like a real nightmare having to explain the difference, eh?