{"id":799,"date":"2017-05-09T23:04:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T23:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/docsanddents\/?p=799"},"modified":"2017-05-09T23:04:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T23:04:52","slug":"5317-minutes-from-pnwu-osteopathic-med-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/docsanddents\/2017\/05\/09\/5317-minutes-from-pnwu-osteopathic-med-school\/","title":{"rendered":"5\/3\/17 Minutes from PNWU Osteopathic Med School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest speaker Mike Riggin, from Student Recruitment at Pacific Northwest University School of Medicine, conducting an information session on the DO program at PNWU.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>About the school:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An osteopathic School of Medicine in Yakima, WA founded in 2005 to increase providers for rural and underserved areas in the Pacific Northwest<\/li>\n<li>Diverse and attracts non traditional students, especially those who have had different careers before entering medicine<\/li>\n<li>Serve large underserved area<\/li>\n<li>Graduating class has ranked within top 1% board grades, which means a lot because 80% of residency admissions rests on exam grades<\/li>\n<li>Has international rotation opportunities but are not utilized by many students (1%) as students prefer to stay and perform rotations in the States where they plan to practice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Rotations are about trying on a discipline and seeing how you like it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DO vs MD:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DO:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Is a holistic approach to medicine<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Mind, body, spirit; whole body<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Deal with symptoms and what contribute to them as well. e.g. looking into headaches, which can be caused by nerves\/brain but a DO pays attention to lifestyle contributions as well (like stress, diet, etc.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MD philosophy has a reputation to be symptom based<\/li>\n<li>The difference is that DOs have a reputation of spending more time with their patient; DOs are comfortable in patient space<\/li>\n<li>DOs incorporate osteopathic manipulation, which is as Mike puts it, \u201cIf I could take a chiropractor, massage therapist, and physical therapist, mash them together, and put it on top of an MD, you would get a DO\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Osteopathic manipulation is not healing, simply putting the body back into a position where it can heal (hands on)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Admissions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Acceptance rate is 2.8%<\/li>\n<li>Reason why DO schools have lower acceptance rate with lower stats:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 DO schools look for a different type of individual; look for \u201cthe kid who will change the world one patient at a time\u201d<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 A problem in healthcare: med schools have created generations of physicians who are excellent scientist with poor people skills<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 To fix that DO schools strive for patient centered care: we want to take the patient and make them the hub of the wheel; not just the recipient of the care anymore<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Average incoming GPA is 3.35<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Resources available to PNWU students:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MA of Arts in Medical Sciences: accelerated one year program to help prove to admissions committee that a student in ready for medical school if undergrad stats were subpar<\/li>\n<li>Admissions rate to the MA of Arts in Medical Sciences is 93%, so it&#8217;s a good gateway to medical school for applicants with less strong stats<\/li>\n<li>PNWU gives students opportunity to volunteer to learn outside the classroom and develop patient relations skills in real clinical environments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tip from Mike: all applicants look the same. All are academically qualified for med school, and have shadowing, volunteer, medical and research experience. The key is to separate yourself from the pack and make yourself unique.<\/p>\n<p>Mike&#8217;s contact info:<\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:mriggin@pnwu.edu\">mriggin@pnwu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Phone: <a href=\"tel:(509)%20249-7740\">509-249-7740<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest speaker Mike Riggin, from Student Recruitment at Pacific Northwest University School of Medicine, conducting an information session on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":408,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/docsanddents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/docsanddents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/docsanddents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/docsanddents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/docsanddents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/docsanddents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/docsanddents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/docsanddents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/docsanddents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/docsanddents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}