There are quite a few programs out there. Whatcha gonna do if you're a DO?
COMLEX? USMLE? USMLE-preferred? Well, hopefully this list will address all those issues.
--Last updated 9/21/2013--
Dual Boarded,
DO Match programs
COMLEX-accepting
North-East
South
West
Mid-West
COMLEX-with known minimum score
Possibly DO friendly. Uncertain if they take Comlex. (that just means that they have taken a D.O. before)
no DO interviews nor matches known
COMLEX? USMLE? USMLE-preferred? Well, hopefully this list will address all those issues.
--Last updated 9/21/2013--
Dual Boarded,
- JPS Hospital, Fort Worth, TX, 4/5 of their 1st year are DOs, MD match only
- Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, MD match only
- Michigan State University, both matches
- Nassau, NY - DOs can only go through the DO match
- Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Service --uncertain if they go through both matches
DO Match programs
- Michigan State University, both matches
- Larkin - also takes through MD match for separate positions
- PCGME, Palm Beach, FL
- Samaritan in Corvallis, OR
- UMDNJ-stratford in progress of dual boarding and of changing to NJ OPTI of some sort
- Largo
COMLEX-accepting
North-East
- UMDNJ-Piscataway
- Baystate Health
- NYMC-Westhester
- Berkshire Medical Center - DO "embracing"
- SUNY-upstate
- Hershey
- Vermont
- Beth Israel - 3 DOs
- SLR - 4 DOs, 2 in class of 2013, 2 in 2016
- Maimonides - 1 in the class of 2015 (first one known in a long while!!!)
- Maine Medical Center, Maine (Tufts associated community program)
South
- USC-Palmetto
- Univ of South FL
- Univ of FL-Jacksonville
- East Carolina University
- Medical College of Georgia
- U Kentucky - a couple
- U of Louisville - several
- Vanderbilt
- Wake Forest, North Carolina - several DOs
- UVA
- VCU
- East Tennessee
- Carillion
- WVU-Charleston
- Baylor
West
- Univ of Hawaii - several
- UCSF-Fresno
- University of Washington
- New Mexico
- OHSU, OR
- UCSD - couple DOs in PGY-1s
Mid-West
- KU-Wichita, several, many IMGs
- U of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD - several
- Advocate Lutheran General, Chicago, IL - several
- OUTHC, Oklahoma City, OK
- KU-Kansas City - heck yeah DO friendly
- U of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK
- U of Louisville, KY
- Univ of South Alabama, Mobile, AL - several
- U of Indiana
- St. Mary Mercy, Detroit, MI, a DO in both their classes
- Univ of Illinois, Peoria, a DO in their first class
- Iowa - several
- Univ of Missouri-Columbia, MO
- Western Michigan
- Ohio State
- Mayo - several
- Southern Illinois University - a DO in med-psych
- Wayne State/DMC - several
COMLEX-with known minimum score
- Hennepin-Regions: 80 / 500, currently 3 residents are DOs
- Loyola, Chicago, IL: 210 or higher within 2 attempts on USMLE, several DOs (?)
Possibly DO friendly. Uncertain if they take Comlex. (that just means that they have taken a D.O. before)
- Medical College of Wisconsin
- University of Rochester
- Cincinnati
- Duke - USMLE mandatory
- Loma Linda - USMLE mandatory
- UCLA-SVF - USMLE mandatory
- Temple university hospital in Philly, a couple D.O. graduates
- NYU - one in at least the past 10 years
- Oregon - a few
- Bergen, NJ
no DO interviews nor matches known
- Columbia, NY - has taken D.O.s for fellowship positions
- Einstein, NY
- Mt Sinai, NY
- Cornell, NY
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