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Old 02-09-2007, 08:42 AM
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Old 05-14-2007, 03:01 AM
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First off, thank you all for your insightful responses. It is appreciated.

I am happy with the education I am getting at the DO school and agree full with the advantage of residency slots being availalbe in the future. However, I am going into Family Practice so it shouldn't be a problem regardless of where I graduate from. I was hoping to get the MD degree afterwards from University of Health Science, Antigua but California does not recognize that school - therefore, it would be illegal to advertise as an MD. To answer your questions, I did not realize that it would such a huge disadvantage to not have MD after your name. People just don't know what a DO is. So my options to leave it blank (i.e. Dr. Joe Smith - Family Practice) which looks fishy as well. And if you put D.O., some people just say "that's not a real doctor" and move on to the next.

I think from a business standpoint, it will serve me well to have an M.D. - I will definately talk to some of the schools when the time comes.

Again, thank you all for your kind and respectful responses.

I am so sorry to say this, but such sort of people are really out there who chant after the title???? I am an RN and work in one of the biggest hospitals in Nevada. I have seen D.O's who do their clinical rotations shadowing with the best groups of cardiovascular surgeons I also work with D.Os and didn't know that they weren't MDs for the LONGEST time. I also know of this one D.O who did her entire schooling/education in a D.O school, passed her USMLEs, but did her residency in Medicine. Also, some good friends of mine (MDs) told me that they went to the MD school because of the same reason as you but they didn't see any difference between what they both did. Also, one of them told me that he didn't get to pursue the speciality he really desired. so, there ! I have heard that D.O schools are slowly gaining lot of popularity and that in the near future, there will be a lot more D.O Schools, and those existing now are becomming more nd acompetitive. I would be happy to go to a U.S med school and then to a D.O school before applying to a carib school. Infact, that's the advice I have received from tons of caribbean students on ValueMD....
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Old 10-03-2007, 04:06 AM
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this may work for you
have a look: Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) to Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) Program Homepage
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I would be really wary about programs like this.
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What George said. Dentists and other non-physicians who have taken upgrade-to-"M.D." programs mostly-online from a few scattered providers have had serious problems.

The D.O.-to-"M.D." site referenced says:
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From the Osteopathic medical students who have completed the required courses for the M.D. degree, who have provided the required paperwork as outlined in the "Requirements" section, and who have attended the two-week USMLE review course can receive their M.D. degree in as little as one month upon their completion of the program.
The difference is a paperwork, a two week USMLE review, then a one month wait?

Run, don't walk. (Away.)

I believe this page on this sort of program belongs to this board's own azskeptic: Internet Medical Schools

ETA: George Gollin, Professor of Physics at UIUC and an activist against diploma mills, looks into dotomd's mysterious backstory in this degreediscussion.com thread.
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The shot answer to ur question -- yes, it is possible to transfer to Ross, AUC and Saba, but not to Sgu. I am not sure about the specific requirements though, sorry.
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Why not SGU?

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I don't know for sure but I've heard it's SGU's policy not to take any transfers, perhaps with rare exceptions of transfers from U.S schools.
But I don't think that transfer from any other Carib or foreign medical school to SGU is possible.
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sgu will not take transfer from DO school or indeed most schools. Never into clinicals and rarely into basic sci years.
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Stay in your DO program, you really do not want to go overseas for your medical education, especially in a third world country.
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FWIW, Saint Matthew's flat refused to accept any of my credits from a US osteopathic insitution. (Interesting, since they hire faculty from that same institution to teach at SMU... and they have students rotating at osteopathic hospitals.)

Whatever. I'll go elsewhere.
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