<p>DO degree has been pretty difficult the whole time…in my eyes its just a huge misconception that DO programs are a lot “easier” to get in than MD.</p>
<p>Lax, how good of a job you get as a doctor depends a lot more on where you do your residency rather than where you went to med school. But I doubt you can get a good residency in the US if you went to some mediocre med school in the carribeans with a 3.0 gpa (that’s all you would probably get into.) If you think the lower ranked med schools are easy to get into, then you better think that getting into engineering school is a walk in the park. If getting into med school was easy (top med schools aside) and landing a job thereafter is also easy, hell, who would want to go to JHU or harvard or columbia?</p>
<p>I think the difficulty is split down the middle. Being a successful (not referring to income) doctor can be harder than being a good engineer just in terms of the style of job. If you’re doing family practice and a patient comes in, you can’t really wait to consult with another doctor if you’re not sure whats wrong with the patient. I mean you could, but that’d seriously make you look incompetent. If someone is rushed into the ER, spewing blood from every pore in the body, the doctor has to make a split second decision on what to do, or the patient will die. Engineers have all day to make a judgement call. If we’re talking about an innovative design in building structure or whatever, and it fails, its much harder to point fingers at one specific person, since engineers usually don’t work independently (especially if its ‘innovative’). Point is engineers aren’t stupid, if there’s a flaw in whatever was designed, others will see it. When you’re a doctor and you give the wrong treatment, it’s your fault because you’re the one with the MD, not the nurses, not the technicians, not the EMTs, for not realizing it (lest there were other doctors in the room who also didn’t know better). However, the stuff an average doctor does on a daily basis is probably more mundane than what an engineer who has to come up with new ideas everyday to make a living does</p>