<p>Is it easyer to get into a D.O. granting medical school as opposed to a M.D. granting one? Are D.O.'s just chiropractor factories?</p>
<p>1.) No, they are separate from chiropractice. DO's are fully licensed doctors and are eligible to practice medicine in exactly the same way an MD is. My school has a high-ranking trauma surgeon who's a DO.</p>
<p>2.) Generally it's understood that they're easier to get into.</p>
<p>My father (doctor) said it would be a better idea to get an MD overseas than DO in the US, since after a given amount of time, not many peoplewhere you got your MD, but a DO is a DO. He feels in the Medical world, a DO is looked upon less than an MD.</p>
<p>I disagree strongly with this advice, since DO rates of passing Step I and placing into residency are both better than the average overseas school. (BRM has a post on the subject.)</p>
<p>Again, with the note that London is different from Grenada.</p>
<p>Yeah BDM covered this one quickly. But the DO schools, by all recognizable measures, perform better than IMG's. And while some discrimination is still present towards DO's, I believe that it's disappearing with each MD that retires...</p>
<p>To clarify:</p>
<p>If you're talking about overseas schools to London or Paris, I think I can accept that those put you in better career positions than DO school.</p>
<p>But if you're talking about St. George's in Grenada, or Ross (in the Caribbean somewhere), or the American University of the Caribbean, I'm going to be extremely skeptical. Again, relative to DO schools.</p>
<p>What's wrong with Ross? :confused:</p>
<p>I don't mean that anything's "wrong" with it (or at least I am not arguing so here). I simply mean that one's career prospects would be better going to a DO school than a med school in the Caribbean, Ross included.</p>