<p>I recently saw a press release from a local college saying one of the graduating seniors had been accepted at medical school at Ohio University. That caught my attention, because I attended Ohio University, and they don't have a medical school! They do have an osteopathic program, so I guess that is where the student is going. Our D is pre-med and when she was looking at colleges it was surprisingly hard to get information about med school acceptance records at different schools. When I saw this press release it struck me as misleading if not downright dishonest.... what do others think?</p>
<p>An osteopathic medical school is a medical school. No dishonesty involved. </p>
<p>Osteopathic medical school is medical school. Full stop. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Fully 20% of all practicing physicians in the US are graduates of osteopathic medical schools.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>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. </p>
<p>For med school admission, it is far, far, far less important what college your D attends than what she does as a student there.</p>
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Is it honest to call an osteopath program “medical school”?.</p>
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<p>what would you call it? the grads are physicians.</p>
<p>there is very little, if any difference between an MD and DO. they can both do the same residency’s (although im not sure if an MD can be an Osteopath, i believe they can though). </p>
<p>By training, these are medical schools. By title, graduates will not be MD, they will be DO. They work in the same capacity as MDs though, a lot of times in the same office. Some of them will be going thru MD residencies, but they will never be called MDs.
One of the residency programs on the D’s list accepts 4 - 6 MD applicants and 2 DO applicants to exactly the same program every year.</p>
<p>Thanks to all of you for educating me! I am embarrassed to say I had no idea – I should have asked my D first, LOL! </p>