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MEDICAL SCHOOL
EVALUATION & GRADUATION

gram. Both have also entered schools that focus heavily on primary been of particular interest as someone going into the field of physical
care, with missions that include in part, advancing health equity medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R). Though the additional exam
through service, cultural competency, education and leadership. and classroom hours are not the most attractive to someone choosing
As an osteopathic medical student, Chinwe has been able to develop the field of DO, she has developed a deep appreciation for the skillsets
an appreciation for the research opportunities, resources and exposures her sister has learned, and these skills have even helped her at times
to numerous subspecialties that her sister has had at her MD program. with her pain through medical school. In retrospect, DO may have
As someone who chose to take the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical been a good fit for her specialty interest, however, she is a true believer
Licensing Examination (COMLEX) and United States Medical Licens- that everything happens for a reason. She would not have had the op-
ing Examination (USMLE) licensing exams, she has been able to use as- portunity to go through medical school with one of the people she
pects of her sister’s curriculum and resources to better prepare for loves most in this world: her little sister. For her, that has honestly been
USMLE, since her school has a sole focus on COMLEX. She has been the best blessing throughout her medical school experience.
able to use information and skills from both of their experiences to carve MD or DO, medical school is medical school, and it is to say the
out her own path to success and develop ways to bridge the gap between least, hard. So, though these sisters have taken very different paths to
MD and DO training. She has learned that both have an important role medicine, it is the similarities that strengthen their bond and have
to play in the field of medicine. placed them in a position to be each other’s helping and healing hand.
Along with the rigorous curriculum of medical school, Nneka also Two very different roads, though admittedly one even less traveled
deals with chronic back/neck pain attributed to her multiple spinal than the other, but have these roads really been so different?
surgeries. Medical school only intensified her pain due to the extensive
study hours and workdays. Having her sister perform an Osteopathic Chinwe Anyanwu is a rising OMS-IV at the Uni-
Manipulative Treatment (OMT) on her during the holidays, teach versity of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic
her new techniques to use on herself and watching her sister practice Medicine. Nneka Anyanwu is a rising OMS-IV at
has broadened her view of the tools available to treat patients and has Meharry Medical College.

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