What is osteopathic medicine? Why I chose DO | from a second year osteopathic medical student 

I’m so glad you found it helpful!! 😊😊

thank you for your support for DOs! :)

wow, that's great to hear. thank you!! best of luck!!

You are so welcome! :)

Thank you for your service to patients & thank you for your support for DOs! 😄we take the same classes as MDs along with our OMM classes, we are both equally qualified but I believe the tenets of osteopathic medicine - that focus on the self healing body, biomechanics, & focusing on the body, mind & spirit - that are emphasized throughout our education & training makes a difference! :)

Well, that's not true. People only apply for DO schools when they failed to get into MD schools due to low GPA and MCAT. No they are not better than MDs.

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@@weilin2418 DOs are not better than MDs, but they're equal. They train at the same residencies and have the exact same hospital privileges.

That’s great, your experience as a nurse will help you so much in med school and as a doctor! :)

thank you! :)

you should! they are in all specialties and can do anything they want!!

@Sameer thanks for your response, it actually helped quite a bit. That whole second paragraph actually seemed rather unappealing, but I guess it's part of the journey to greater pay off. What's ironic is that I don't actually want to work in medicine; I want to work in the health field over medical, with more of an emphasis in holistic approaches. I know DOs are still technically medical, but I felt it may have been the best route to allow me to do a bit of everything that I wanted to. I may have misunderstood, as I suppose a general DO still follows, more or less, the same practices as a general practitioner (MD)

@@brandonmarquez1834 I've seen it listed as one of the many examples of holistic practices, but I had no idea they were able to do so much! I'll have to give them a more thorough look. Thank you for the information! And congratulations to you on your graduation! It's interesting to see how similar paths can branch out for similar reasons yet go in different directions.

hi courtney! so sorry for my late response .... I've been off youtube for a bit but planning on getting back to posting again as i've just started fourth year. your passion and excitement is inspiring and i absolutely love it; please keep that! congratulations on finishing your degree in exercise science + the psychology minor. I think you definitely align with the priniciples of osteopathic medicine, but i agree with the above commenter that i could see you in other career fields as well, because there is not just one path to practice/do what you say you want to do (which is great, by the way!). i will say, if you choose DO/MD, you can make your practice whatever you want (practice with the added nutrition emphasis, obesity/lifestyle medicine, holistic health center family medicine practice) but you will go through a lot of training and you will have to learn all of that medicine. so i say if you're not passionate about that part, i could see you being very happy not practicing medicine as an MD/DO, but finding a different avenue to do what you want. The chiropractic route could be one as the above person said, you could go to PT school and have an extra emphasis in nutrition and overall health and wellness, you could take some health certification courses (although these do not carry as much weight as doctorate degrees of course because the training and education is much less). i think you have a very bright future and if you have extra questions about DO, let me know bc that is my area of specialty + i love talking about it :)

Awesome! What was his specialty? I’m still in my second year of med school but right now I’m interested in internal medicine, GI, & cardiology!

@@racheldoesbalance He was a family physician. He was the director of the family practice residency at Santa Monica UCLA before he retired. My son is a high school senior and just applied for a combined BA/MD program at UNM.

@@kirkfelmar2944 thats amazing! & thats awesome that your son is following in your father's footsteps to become a physician :)

thank you so much! :) and thank you for the advice! that's amazing, excited for you!!

I don’t personally but that’s a great background & experience that will help you so much as a doctor!!

what is advanced life support like in DO school?

Im not sure, but im sure some lymphatic drainage techniques would be helpful for it!

Which medical school are you at?

@@racheldoesbalance I’m not in medical school. I’m practicing family medicine with the rest of my cohorts.

@@edhcb9359 oh okay, that’s great! :) I’m looking forward to my FM rotations

Yes what are your questions ?

Thank you!😸

No, you don’t need a MBBS to get into med school or HPSP

I'm sorry, I'm not understanding your comment. what do you mean by that? it wasn't my intention to come off that way but i'd love to hear about how it sounded so i can understand better how things might sound to patients.

Are you a physician? Do you know Rachel? I know many people who just applied DO.

​@@momto2 to be honest, got to agree with @Sr68720. Most people who go into DO are ones who can't make it into MD. Also, as a medical student in an MD program, most of the reasons that DO students say they went to DO programs like it being more focused on the patient, holistic, etc is pretty much nonsense. MD programs obviously have the same tenant of treating patients holistically. I also know some DO physicians who rarely use OMT, and they even say that the evidence behind it is questionable. You can even do a literature search about it. However, if it works for a patient, then great, but it's really not all that it's cracked up to be. Lastly, are the students that applied to DO that you know competitive in their metrics? She even admitted to having a subpar MCAT of 500, which would still get you secondaries and maybe from some interviews from lower tier MD programs. If you want to do something like internal medicine or primary, DO does not matter. However, if you want to specialize then going to an MD school, which usually have more resources/funding/committed clinical sites, is the better option if you can get in.

@@momto2 some do like the DO philosophy of being more "holistic" but that's more of a coping tagline than anything since MDs also do a holistic approach (in an MD program and have lots of friends in several other MD programs around the country with same experience), most do so bc they know their odds in getting into MD is slim to none based on their metrics, experiences, etc

@@pseudoname5936 You can think what you want. At the end of the day, MDs and DOs do the same residencies and have identical privileges at a hospital. I'm a RN who has worked for and has been treated by DOs. My daughter is about to graduate from DO med school and will be doing a specialty residency with three MDs at one of the best medical centers/teaching hospitals in the country.