http://medicalmastery.com Realize your lifelong dreams - starting RIGHT NOW! Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:16:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 The Pre-Med Podcast from Doctor Dan is a unique resource for premedical students. Learn what it's REALLY like to go through medical school and beyond, always tempered with real life, practical applications for Pre-Meds today - even if you're just starting out! Dr. Daniel Williams takes the listener through the entire medical education process, from his book Diary of a Pre-Med Student: Guiding Pre-Med Student Through An Amazing Process. You can get this E-book for FREE, as well as the Speed Reading For Medical School course by registering at www.Medical-Mastermind-Community.com. Who can complain when they get exactly what they want? This is a listener-driven lecture series on how to get into and survive medical school. Consider Doctor Dan your own personal online academic adviser. From choosing medicine as a career, to the details of getting strong letters of recommendation, you will find everything you want! Take a listen... Daniel Williams, M.D. clean Daniel Williams, M.D. drdanielwilliams@gmail.com drdanielwilliams@gmail.com (Daniel Williams, M.D.) 2010 Premedical Solutions, LLC Realize your lifelong dreams - starting NOW! medical school, medicine, premed, pre-med, mcat, usmle, be a doctor, become a doctor http://medicalmastery.com/photos/MM-Logo-300.jpg http://medicalmastery.com http://medicalmastery.com/http:/medicalmastery.com/osteopathic-medical-training/ http://medicalmastery.com/http:/medicalmastery.com/osteopathic-medical-training/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:46:42 +0000 Doctor Dan http://medicalmastery.com/?p=96 http://medicalmastery.com/http:/medicalmastery.com/osteopathic-medical-training/feed/ 1 doctor_of_osteopathic,doctor_of_osteopathic_medicine,infectious_disease,infectious_disease_specialists,medicine_training,musculoskeletal_system,osteopathic_physician,osteopathic_physicians,residency_programs - Episode 12: Ostopathic Medicine Training: What's so special about it? - ==================================================== - There is more than one way to become a physician: Allopathic and Osteopathic. Episode 12: Ostopathic Medicine Training: What's so special about it? ==================================================== There is more than one way to become a physician: Allopathic and Osteopathic. Today's discussion is about the pathway to doctor of osteopathic medicine (D.O.) In addition to all of the traditional aspects of physician work that you're familiar with, osteopathic physicians theoretically have a few other tenants that they emphasize: 1. The human body systems need to be in correct relationship with one another (really just normal physiology) 2. The musculoskeletal system gets some special attention. I'd like to add a third: the osteopathic physician is taught to take care of the "whole patient". Holistic medicine refers to the taking care of the whole person, i.e., mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Really the only difference is that they can pop your back! They get all the same jobs, direct hospital departments, and go to all the same residency programs. So, why are we talking about them? Because some people don't apply to these programs as a first choice, leaving opportunities on the table for you. In 2007, the average allopathic applicant had a MCAT score of 28 and a GPA of 3.5. An average osteopathic applicant had a MCAT of 25 and a GPA of 3.5. Many residency programs accept the COMLEX exam, but some may also require the USMLE. ==================================================== MEDICAL SPECIALTY SPOTLIGHT: Infectious Disease 4 years of medical school 3 years of internal medicine residency 2-3 years of fellowship training in Infectious Disease Traditionally, Infectious Disease specialists operate as a consult service in the hospital. The main activity is in clinics. The approach is not that the ID doctor is there when someone has an infection, but they are there to help when the treating physician confronts a complicated patient outside his or her expertise. They also hold the purse strings for the hospital's pharmacy by serving on committees that decide which drugs can be dispensed and which ones the hospital will and will not provide. The newer, expensive antibiotics often need special approval from the committee on an individual basis. They're not being mean, their slowing down the evolutionary resistance mechanisms of the microorganisms trying to kill our patients. ==================================================== QUICK TIP: Apply to them first so that you don't forget to do it. Remember, there is nothing second rate about being a D.O. QUICK REFERENCE: National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners http://www.nbome.org/ List of Osteopathic Medical Colleges: http://www.nbome.org/colleges-list.asp Daniel Williams, M.D. clean 23:27