I don't think your tone or demeanor is very professional in this thread, especially from someone who has never met a DO ENT.
With that said, I'm a DO otolaryngologist. My residency training was better than most, MD or DO. Why? We had a faculty to resident ratio of greater than 3:1. I had an amazing variety of cases to chose from daily. Many cases went uncovered because we didn't have the residents available to cover.
We performed major H&N cancer surgeries including free flaps and otology cases including cochlear implants. We also had our own children's hospital. We did some away rotations in skull base and peds for the complicated airway reconstruction. Don't kid yourself into thinking you need a large skull base or airway reconstruction experience in residency. Those are fellowship trained cases nowadays. Also, our facial plastics case requirement is very high which is the reason why I'm officially board certified in otolaryngology and facial plastic surgery. I'm told our requirements for fps are much higher than our MD counterparts but I have no data to support that. Thankfully we had a fellowship trained facial plastics on staff to help us meet those requirements.
Our graduates have attained fellowships in all sub specialties of ENT including neurotology, rhinology, Head and neck, facial plastics, and laryngology.
Of course not all residencies are the same, DO or MD, but please don't make generalized statements regarding a subset of your colleagues that you really don't know that much about.
The residency you describe sounds good, but there are a very few MD programs that do not meet or exceed what you describe. ACGME and ABOto set very high marks for MD ENT residency programs.
I suspect that DO boards and MOC are more lax, but I don't know much about the DO process.
You can be an excellent surgeon with mediocre training also, but it's obviously better to be well trained, and it's good to have your certications prove that you are well trained.
Certification from the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, specifically, is a tough process.
http://www.abfprs.org/applying/index.cfm
DO ENTs would not qualify, because they are not ABOto certified to begin with.
"To be eligible for certification, a surgeon must:
Have completed a residency program approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in one of the two medical specialties containing identifiable training in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery: otolaryngology/head-and-neck surgery or plastic surgery.
Have earned prior certification by the American Board of Otolaryngology, the American Board of Plastic Surgery or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in otolaryngology/head-and-neck surgery or plastic surgery.
Have been in practice a minimum of two years.
Have 100 operative reports accepted by a peer-review committee.
Successfully pass an 8-hour written and oral examination.
Operate in an accredited facility.
Hold the appropriate licensure and adhere to the ABFPRS Code of Ethics."