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The Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine or DO degree is the only other legal and professional equivalent to the MD degree in the United States and Canada for physicians . The sole difference between the MD and the DO degrees is the additional musculoskeletal training in osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT).
The Ed.D. is a practitioner degree focusing on how theory can be applied to solving real world problems. By contrast, the Ph.D. degree is research-oriented with emphasis on testing theories and discovering new knowledge within a narrow discipline. Curricular differences have more to do with substance than rigor.