As Psai said, PDs (at this point of time) can honeslty remove DOs from the app cycle for their program with a simple click of a button that excludes anyone who is not an internal ERAS applicant (that is a newly MD grad). On top of that, you have PDs who simply ignore DO applications because they truly feel that accepting them will drop the tier and prestige of their program. This is shown time and time again when you look at mid and top tier Academic IM programs (BMC, MGH, BWH, UCSF NOT UCSF Fresno, Northwestern, UMich, UCSD, UCLA-RR, Duke, Yale, Stanford, Cornell, Jefferson, Stony Brook, UPenn, lIJ).
Many of the competitive programs are looking for much more than decent step scores to choose their potential invterviewees, they want to see scholarly activity and unfortunately, DO schools are not even on the map in the research realm than MD schools. There are DO schools however that are headed down the right path (Rowan, OUHCOM, KCU, MSU) to expand institutional research activities.
The thing here is that it is better to inform you of the reality of choosing the DO path then trick you into thinking you will waltz into a cardiovascular surgery program. MDs and DOs are both well trained physicians. The differences between the two should one want to pursue a medical academic career is profound.
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Is there really a difference between MD and DO?
