I truly hope that you think through what you just said. It is true that TODAY over 20% of medical students are training to be osteopathic physicians, but that was not always the case.

There’s around 36 osteopathic colleges in the US today. Of those 20 of them had their first class of students AFTER the year 2000. Seven of the remaining schools had their first classes in the 80′s and 90′s. Which leaves about 8 osteopathic schools in full operation before that point. To go with those numbers the newer DO schools are the ones with the incredibly large class sizes.

You also forget to take into account that the statement made by AACOM states that 20% of medical students in the United States are DO students. This means that they are not factoring for the large numbers of Caribbean schools and other foreign schools.

The vast majority of the physicians practicing today graduated long before most of the current osteopathic schools were founded. The fact that osteopathic physicians make up 7% of US physicians is actually remarkable, since 15 years ago osteopathic students probably accounted for much less than 7% of US medical students at that time (and remember that does not include the Caribbean and other foreign graduated MDs that are filling a large chunk of the market).

The team at Premed Network has recently come across your blog.

I’m the President of Premed Network, a nationwide network of premed students.

http://www.PremedNetwork.com

The vision of Premed Network is to create a platform for the next generation of physicians.

We are reaching out to select medical student bloggers to share their posts in our community.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Omar Baig
President, Premed Network
16180 Alum Rock Avenue
San Jose, CA 95127
(408) 802-5267

Can you please email me when you get the chance. I’d love to discuss a new opportunity with you. Have a wonderful week; I look forward to keeping in touch!

Warmly,

Chris