UW interview, and making friends with DO
On Thursday I spent what felt like a million-dollar half hour being interviewed by three physicians on UW's medical faculty. I thought I did pretty well, and I came out feeling great. (That's weird! Name somebody more neurotic than me. It's a bit of work, huh?) While I don't have an abiding passion for UW as a school, given that it's largely been a soul-crushing isolating impersonal void of despair where I learned how it feels to be ordinary (except when I'm in lab: blessed, grace-saving lab), I am excited to have UW as one of the two smiley faces on my map of med schools:
Today's med school application status roundup:
So let's talk about D.O. D.O. stands for Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. (I do not know where the M went.) M.D. is abbreviated Latin for Teacher of Medicine. When you get an M.D., that means you went to a US school of allopathic medicine. When you get a D.O., that means you went to a US school of osteopathic medicine. If you went to med school elsewhere, you might have a MBBS, MBChB, DM, MS, MDCM or MAO. If you're in any of these categories, and you do a US residency and pass the US boards, you can be pretty much any kind of doctor you want to be.
Which brings me to the orthopedic surgeon I shadowed for three days last month. I have a new hero. Dr. P's dad started the first sports medicine clinic in the world, back in the 60's, and was the team physician for the Mariners. Dr. P saw maybe 60 patients in clinic during the two days I followed him around the office, and gave the most professional, supportive, consistent personal care I believe I've ever seen a doctor give (and I've been paying close attention for some time). He had patients travel to see him from all over the Pacific Northwest. In the OR, Dr. P did a bunch of arthroscopic knee procedures and then put a pin in an elderly lady's broken hip. Every bit as sexy as the ileostomy and discectomy I watched earlier this year. This guy's the doctor I want to be.
Yep. He's a D.O., and so was his dad. Any questions?
In addition to 34 MD schools, I've applied to 10 DO schools, and I already have an interview at Nova in Fort Lauderdale. In January. Sucks to not be me.
So today, I'm watching the "snow" come down*, and feeling pretty darned good about this whole med school deal.
Thank you for your continuing support.
- Cy
*by "snow" I mean the brief dusting that will shut down Seattle for a week, I'm sure.
Today's med school application status roundup:
- 2 lovely smile-inducing interviews (UW, Nova)
- 25 secondary-application-receiving money-grubbing hostage-taking semi-communicative passive-aggressive pending possible-interview-granters for whom I bled my special diversity into essay form (green question marks)
- 5 ghostlike mysterious secondary-eschewing shy quiet amnesiacs (also green question marks)
- 12 rejections (The red X's. Dead to me. Yes, I'm talking to YOU, Appalachian region.)
So let's talk about D.O. D.O. stands for Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. (I do not know where the M went.) M.D. is abbreviated Latin for Teacher of Medicine. When you get an M.D., that means you went to a US school of allopathic medicine. When you get a D.O., that means you went to a US school of osteopathic medicine. If you went to med school elsewhere, you might have a MBBS, MBChB, DM, MS, MDCM or MAO. If you're in any of these categories, and you do a US residency and pass the US boards, you can be pretty much any kind of doctor you want to be.
Which brings me to the orthopedic surgeon I shadowed for three days last month. I have a new hero. Dr. P's dad started the first sports medicine clinic in the world, back in the 60's, and was the team physician for the Mariners. Dr. P saw maybe 60 patients in clinic during the two days I followed him around the office, and gave the most professional, supportive, consistent personal care I believe I've ever seen a doctor give (and I've been paying close attention for some time). He had patients travel to see him from all over the Pacific Northwest. In the OR, Dr. P did a bunch of arthroscopic knee procedures and then put a pin in an elderly lady's broken hip. Every bit as sexy as the ileostomy and discectomy I watched earlier this year. This guy's the doctor I want to be.
Yep. He's a D.O., and so was his dad. Any questions?
In addition to 34 MD schools, I've applied to 10 DO schools, and I already have an interview at Nova in Fort Lauderdale. In January. Sucks to not be me.
So today, I'm watching the "snow" come down*, and feeling pretty darned good about this whole med school deal.
Thank you for your continuing support.
- Cy
*by "snow" I mean the brief dusting that will shut down Seattle for a week, I'm sure.
posted by Cy at 6:34 PM
1 Comments:
Cy Cedar, you rock! Jensa and I are sitting in Greenwood, with a fire going and looking at pictures of Jasper as a puppy, and remembering when we first met you.
Rock on with the interviews, girl! I'm looking forward to hearing more about your journey to full-on ya-ya-DO-hood.
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