Is it honest to call an osteopath program "medical school"?.

WayOutWestMom
Sun, 04 May 2014 23:29:51 +0000

Osteopathic medical school is medical school. Full stop.

Osteopaths are fully licensed physicians and have the same practice privileges and scope of practice as do allopaths. Osteopathic physicians can and do enter the full range medical specialties.

Fully 20% of all practicing physicians in the US are graduates of osteopathic medical schools.

And starting in 2016, osteopathic and allopathic medical graduates will both enter a unified residency match and train side-by-side in the same residency programs.

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As for medical school acceptance rates published by colleges–these data are untrustworthy and easily manipulated. There’s no one single way that schools arrive at their acceptance rate. (And no public accountability so they could make their numbers out of thin air if they wished.) Don’t make a decision based solely on any alleged rates you read.

For med school admission, it is far, far, far less important what college your D attends than what she does as a student there.