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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://medicine.ucsf.edu/internal-medicine-interns

First year residents at UCSF (one of big 4 residency programs along with Mass General (Harvard), Brigham and Women's Hospital (Harvard), and Hopkins). 0 from DO schools. [/quote]

Top residencies NEVER take DOs, even primary care ones listed above(internal medicine is primary care for adults only). No surprise at all but additionally, top residency is not needed for most physician jobs. The problem with DO is that a large percent do not match at all and those that do are heavily skewed to rural residency programs and family med (the most general primary care field there is--adults, kids and basic gyn care). It is very difficult to know what specialty you want to do before medical school starts, and whether you might want to be a subspecialist in a well known teaching hospital. DO school completely shuts the door. MD programs as long as they are based at research oriented specialty. 
US students who want to go to medical school but do not quite have the Mcat scores (ie above 508) or GPA to get in to MD programs should take another year off, study more, take a post-bacc or even 2 yrs to get a masters in science or public health and try again. Otherwise they should do PA: the job market is still good, pay is above 100k and PA's can work in many subspecialties and get cool cases, albeit under a doctor. [/quote]

This is off. DOs have a very high match rate. You will likely match as a DO. What is hard for them is matching into competitive specialities (ortho, ophthalmology, derm) or top programs in internal medicine and Peds. I went to a top IM program and we didn’t take DOs. However, where you go to residency doesn’t really matter all that much in the end. You’ll always have a job.

This main issue is going to the Caribbean to do an MD. These individuals have a terrible match rate. [/quote]

Actually one quarter to one third of most DO school 4th yrs have to scramble after not matching on match day, as described above. Over half them get some type of residency or at least a one-year intern spot allowing them to try again, but that is much different than the MD average of less than 2% having to scramble. Caribbean is indeed much worse than DO, you are correct on that. [/quote]

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