Those who did not shadow a D.O., how did you answer [secondaries] that pertain to something like: "While shadowing a physician, what did the experience do to solidify your desire/ambition to become an osteopathic physician?"

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Posted Sep 9, 2019, 6:38 AM UTC

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FoldingUserFerrariicADMITTED-DO - 83 SECONDARIES TO MARS•

I worked with one for 2.5k hrs, never shadowed a DO.

Also listed examples and uses of prevention, self healing & OMM. & the idea of mind + body + spirit and how it's helped my life.

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Easy, just say how the experience made you realize how important the DO ideals are. I have no shadowing since high school, and those were MDs. I didnt have a prompt that specific but when asked to talk about clinical experiences and how they inform my desire to be a DO I talked about EMS and how often I see people who have prescriptions for all their conditions but are still poorly managed because there is no one really understanding them as a person and what their unique challenges are.

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