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Great Hospitals Keep Explaining Because Patients Keep Asking
Source: Scripps Health. MD vs DO: what’s the difference when choosing a doctor? December 1, 2025. Updated September 30, 2026. https://www.scripps.org/news_items/4898-md-vs-do-what-s-the-difference-when-choosing-a-doctor (accessed October 3, 2026). Scripps Health, the...
Manpower, Not Persuasion
Sean Patrick Barbabella, DO, Physician to the President, Captain, US Navy. Source: Official portrait, 2023, Executive Office of the President. For seventy years the osteopathic profession argued that its graduates (DOs) were physicians. For seventy years organized...
Tear Down the Wall
Source: MacKenzie A, Rajput V. Tear down the wall between M.D. and D.O. education. STAT. August 5, 2026. Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/05/md-vs-do-medical-education-merge/ MacKenzie and Rajput argue that the United States...
DO Match Trends Improve, the Identity Gap Remains
Source: https://www.ama-assn.org/medical-students/preparing-residency/do-match-trends-how-osteopathic-specialty-footprint-broadening (accessed July 20, 2026) Within medicine, the equivalence of osteopathic (DO) and allopathic (MD) training is well established. Where...
If Patients Weren’t Confused Enough Already
Source: American Osteopathic Association. See https://osteopathic.org/about/advocacy/state-advocacy-initiatives/protecting-osteopathic-distinctiveness/ (accessed June 30, 2026). When a patient meets a provider whose name ends in "DO," a fair question follows: what...
Equal, but Still—No Pun Intended—Explaining
Equality Is Settled, What Better Proof? At a recent meeting of the Missouri State Medical Association (MSMA) in St. Louis, deans from the state’s medical schools held their first joint conclave. The meeting served as an opportunity for MSMA to connect with...
Accreditation Highlights Distinct Missions
May 22, 2026 THE VALLEY, ANGUILLA — Saints Cosmas and Damian Health Sciences College announced today that its separately chartered counterpart in the Cayman Islands has received accreditation from Accreditation Services for International Schools, Colleges and...
ACPE Reiterates Distinction Between Accreditation and Equivalency
Source: https://www.acpe-accredit.org/wp-content/uploads/ACPE_Update-Spring-2026.pdf (accessed May 18, 2026). In its Spring 2026 Update, the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) emphasized that Saints Cosmas and Damian Health Sciences College is not a...
Colorado Medical School Offers 3-Year MD
Source: https://news.cuanschutz.edu/medicine/3-year-md-program (accessed May 13, 2026). In a nutshell: "The CU Anschutz School of Medicine is enrolling now for the first class of students in the three-year program, called the Peak-to-Peak Pathway, which will...