The D.O. Is In Now: Osteopathic Schools Turn Out Nearly a Third of All Med School Grads

From the New York Times - July 29, 2014

Getting into osteopathic school is still excruciatingly tough. Last fall, more than 144,000 students applied for some 6,400 spots. Touro this year received 6,000 applications for 270 first-year seats for the Manhattan school and a new campus opening this summer in Middletown, N.Y. (The average M.C.A.T. score for students entering this fall was just a point below the M.D. average.)

The boom in osteopathy is striking. In 1980, there were just 14 schools across the country and 4,940 students. Now there are 30 schools, including state universities in New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia and Michigan, offering instruction at 40 different locations to more than 23,000 students. Today, osteopathic schools turn out 28 percent of the nation’s medical school graduates.

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Berger, Joseph. "The D.O. Is In Now: Osteopathic Schools Turn Out Nearly a Third of All Med School Grads." The New York Times 29 July 2014 Published: Web. 29 July 2014.