A breakdown of whether DO medical schools match MD schools in quality and career outcomes. DOs and MDs have equivalent licensing and practice scope in the US, though DOs train in osteopathic manipulation alongside standard medicine.
Doctors of osteopathic medicine in the United States. So in the United States, we are complete physicians. We get a medical license in almost every state that's exactly the same as an MD would. The license is the same. There are a few states that have separate DO licensing associations, but most of them, again, same licensure. I have the same plaque on my wall that you would have as far as my ability to practice. And we can go into any specialty of medicine, et cetera, et cetera, from surgery to family practice, as we discussed. The thing that makes us different is the philosophy which you mentioned, which we have kept from Andrew Taylor still, and the manual medicine, which Andrew Taylor still started, but has really evolved and come a long way since.
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