Check the website out again, use this address:
http://www.usask.ca/medicine/Applications/PDFStats.pdf
You'll need Adobe Acrobat or Reader to read the site. That page has the actual statistics for the entering class of 98. Their average was 87% (3.9). Their brochure says that you should have an 80% average to get in but the lowest average matriculant had an 83% average.
In my mind, my desire is to become a physician (a job description) not a doctor (an academic title). As such, I fail to see much of a distinction between osteopathic and allopathic medical schools with the exception of OMM. Nowadays, most MD schools teach holistic, self-directed and preventative viewpoints toward health. In an earlier post, I cited UBC as an example, as they offer electives in alternative medicine. Also, my father did his residency at an allopathic med school teaching hospital that had a Chinese-American MD anesthesiologist who had training in acupuncture and routinely used it to treat his post-op patients. OMM, which many say is the trademark of Osteopathic medicine, is quickly being adopted by allopathic medicine under the guise of physical and massage therapy (although, they seem to be using different techniques, their premise is the same). Osteopathic schools are quickly becoming like allopathic schools as well. Schools are starting to encourage academic research and just about every specialty has DO's practicing within. Thus, in my eyes, I see no discernible difference between a MD and a DO. I think that the biggest difference between physicians is an individual difference, meaning that your own personal beliefs and attitudes toward healing are more of an influence on what type of a physician you are than what school you went to and what initials you have behind your name. In short, I don't see a being a DO as a MD replacement and I don't think it really matters what degree I get (provided that no limitations are put on me, but as you say, there don't seem to be any). That said, I am applying only to MD schools in Canada because they are cheaper than just about any American med school (with the exception of some of the Ontario schools, where tuition in Ontario may be comparable to tuition for residents in some state schools). I would much rather end up $60 000 Cdn in debt (which works out to $40 000 US) instead of $100 000 US when I graduate. BTW, 2003, if you did your undergrad at U of A, why didn't you go there or U of C for med school?(U of C may be lower tiered but I still think it's pretty kick-ass: it has a three year program, a chance to do electives in third world countries and a research program built into its curriculum)
