M.D or Medical Doctor or Doctorate of Medicine is a two years post graduate level specialization course that deals with treating patients with the different injuries as well as illness in the most traditional medications as well as treatment options. The course mainly deals in developing the candidates to study a particular subject and achieve specialization in this subject. The course also provides rigorous training program and the respective candidates have to pass the State Licensing Examination. The candidates are trained to prescribe medicines or even surgery to perfectly restore the health of the patients.

Candidates that have undertaken four and a half year of MBBS course in the undergraduate level are eligible to study this course. Though there are several Medical based Institutes that offer Entrance Exam before he or she could take admissions. The eligibility criterion of these entrance exams depend upon the general nature of the Medical Council itself.

D.O. or Doctorate of Osteopathic is also a two years post graduate level specialization course that deals with the osteopathic manipulations. The course enables the candidates to undertake specialization in skeletal system along with skeletal as well as muscular manipulation. The course prepares the doctors to look at the patient’s body as a whole system of complex network and tries to find out the root cause of the disease rather than the preventive cure at the first step.

Any candidates that have undertaken the course of MBBS in the undergraduate level are eligible to study this course. The course provides the candidates alternative treatment as well as different view on the diagnosis process. The course prepares the doctors to look upon the body as a healing platform in which different parts can work in perfect co-ordination to heal the injured part of the body.