Comments on: A for-profit DO school is about to open

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:33:00 +0000

If Rocky Mountain Vista succeeds, we will probably see more “for-profit” US medical schools open in the future. However, I believe the financial hole that RV will potentially put their graduates in is unfortunate and appalling. But in the end, every DO and MD needs to pass the same standard set of certification examinations to practice in the US. And if RV does manage to keep up with or exceed accreditation standards, then it will be unfortunate if RV graduates have to carry a negative stigma pinned to their medical degree.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:40:00 +0000

No. The Flexnerites still abound. The reason we have the quackery is because the quacks (specifically the quackopractors) took the allopaths to court and won.

The world will not end as advertised and life will go on. Hopefully this is the start of a growing trend that will see the allopaths join instead of hinder.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:24:00 +0000

The “Flexnerites” are all dead. If they weren’t, or if they remained in any significant number, this school would not have opened.

Neither would there be state boards of chiropractic, homeopathy, midwifery, naturopathy, and so forth.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:52:00 +0000

When the world doesn’t stop spinning and the sun doesn’t go nova secondary to a “for profit” school (gasp, perish the thought), will the Flexnerites be held responsible for their decades of perfidy?

By: Jeffery

Jeffery — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:03:00 +0000

As a fourth-year DO student who is entering the match for ACGME programs, I want to sincerely apologize to the allopathic community for this disgrace. I have never been more ashamed of the leadership of the osteopathic profession, nor have I been more regretful of my choice to attend a DO school. The opening of this school is nothing less than greed and a shrewd shot at capitalizing on the thousands of undergraduates desperate to get in to ANY American medical school.

I will never pay one cent of dues to the AOA. I’m beyond disgusted right now. I’m mainly embarrassed to be a DO.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:30:00 +0000

Speaking of DOs turning a profit, check out the items they are marketing to DOs nowadays.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:18:00 +0000

How many private medical schools are there now? I can think of a few: Harvard, Tufts, Stanford, USC….the list is long.

They all make a profit – and a damned nice one too.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:47:00 +0000

The DOs are doing just fine. One of our local “whatever the litigant says is the cause of whatever ‘abnormality’ I can find” types that does orthopedic surgery of the spine is a DO. All in all, however, he still doesn’t hold a candle to the flame of the local MD neurosurgeon who never saw a litigation patient that was not a candidate for microdiscectomy.

~Criminallopath~

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:36:00 +0000

There are now 29 new or planned medical schools in the United States.

What will happen is that he FMGs will be pushed out of residencies by the new onslaught of low tier MD and DO programs especially.

The number of specialist residency slots is capped and almost filled to capacity. The only excess slots are in primary care, and almost half of those go to FMGs.

Once all these new schools come online, the low tier med school grads are going to have no choice but to do primary care. It will be like law school, where Harvard grads have their pick of residency slots but the 4th tier trash schools wont be putting anybody into the competitive specialties and they will all have go to into family practice.

FMGs are in for a rude awakening.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:13:00 +0000

Anon 12:13:

You neglected to use the word “pablum” in your rant. I feel cheated.