2024-2025 Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-HCOM)

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Hello! I am kind of new to SDN, so I apologize if I messed up on how to ask questions here. I wanted to see if there was any Athens student who could possibly answer my questions as someone who got accepted into the Athens campus.
1. How are classes structured and how often are you having exams/quizzes? (Could you possibly provide also how long are your classes and do you have classes daily?)
2. During the mandatory classes, are we required to focus on the discussion or are the professors a bit more lenient especially closer to boards to allow students to do some self-studying in preparation?
3. How does the OUHCOM Athens campus provide you with support for boards?
4. Does OUHCOM have International outreach programs?
5. Are the labs and OMM clinical graded?
6. I am an OOS student, and was wondering if I potentially wanted to do a rotation near my hometown is that something that can occur or are the rotations all primarily in Ohio?
7. Last question (Sorry, I know it is a lot), but I know of some schools having a week off each block primarily for students who need to remediate on the block, does OUHCOM have a program like this?

Thank you so much!
 
hr22 said:
Hello! I am kind of new to SDN, so I apologize if I messed up on how to ask questions here. I wanted to see if there was any Athens student who could possibly answer my questions as someone who got accepted into the Athens campus.
1. How are classes structured and how often are you having exams/quizzes? (Could you possibly provide also how long are your classes and do you have classes daily?)
2. During the mandatory classes, are we required to focus on the discussion or are the professors a bit more lenient especially closer to boards to allow students to do some self-studying in preparation?
3. How does the OUHCOM Athens campus provide you with support for boards?
4. Does OUHCOM have International outreach programs?
5. Are the labs and OMM clinical graded?
6. I am an OOS student, and was wondering if I potentially wanted to do a rotation near my hometown is that something that can occur or are the rotations all primarily in Ohio?
7. Last question (Sorry, I know it is a lot), but I know of some schools having a week off each block primarily for students who need to remediate on the block, does OUHCOM have a program like this?

Thank you so much!
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1. The curriculum at OU follows a spiral structure. You begin with a patient introduction and then progress into "mini" blocks—which integrate multiple systems rather than focusing on a single subject like cardiology or biochemistry. Daily quizzes are required for every class, meaning you must prepare beforehand. While you're not expected to excel on every quiz, it's important to stay above 70%. There are six exams throughout the semester, occurring relatively frequently. Class schedules vary, typically running from 8 AM to 5 PM, but the number of daily lectures fluctuates.
2. Technically, you are expected to focus solely on lecture material. However, most students use mandatory class time to study with third-party resources instead.
3. Do not rely on med school alone to prepare you for boards. OUHCOM does not use NBME exams, so you should plan to start using AnKing and UWorld/Amboss reinforce board prep. Start AnKing early—you’ll thank me later. Get Uworld closer to boards.
4. Yes.
5. Labs and OMM are not graded. OMM practicals can be graded either as a percentage or pass/fail, but since the curriculum is pass/fail, your goal is simply to score above 70% in everything.
6. You can do audition rotations near your hometown in your fourth year. However, during M3, you are required to rotate through OUHCOM-affiliated hospitals—all of which are in Ohio (possibly with some West Virginia connections for Athens, though I’m not certain).
7. If you score below 70% on an exam, you will typically be required to undergo a remediation process—often lasting around one month—to demonstrate competency before you can move forward. If you still do not meet the required standards after remediation, you will need to repeat the semester. I am not sure if that is right, but that is what I heard.
 
Can anyone speak on what it's like at the Cleveland campus? Are you pretty close with everyone in your class since it's smaller than at Athens? What are the rotations like?
 
RT11001 said:
7. If you score below 70% on an exam, you will typically be required to undergo a remediation process—often lasting around one month—to demonstrate competency before you can move forward. If you still do not meet the required standards after remediation, you will need to repeat the semester. I am not sure if that is right, but that is what I heard.
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This is not correct. You have to average a 70% overall on all 6 content exams during the semester. If you do not, you meet with the curriculum committee. From the people that I have spoken to, you generally do not get remediation unless you are close to passing or have a legitimate reason like health outcomes, etc.
The school will make you meet with someone if your first two exam averages are below 70% to discuss your options, such as taking a Leave of absence, etc.
Ill be honest, if you do not average above a 70% the school usually dismisses you. I do hear from the first years that they are working on some sort of remediation because a lot of the incoming class was not doing well during the 1st semester, but I cant comment on that.
 
Hello! I was wondering if an Athens student could comment on if there was any dedicated studying period for COMLEX/USMLE? I heard that there isn’t, but I wanted to make sure
 
beepboopboopbop said:
Hello! I was wondering if an Athens student could comment on if there was any dedicated studying period for COMLEX/USMLE? I heard that there isn’t, but I wanted to make sure
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There is. Finals wrap up at the end of April this year and students have until June 30th at the latest to take the exam(s). Most are sitting for the exam late May/early June.
 
EArlyBirdGetsTheWorm said:
This is not correct. You have to average a 70% overall on all 6 content exams during the semester. If you do not, you meet with the curriculum committee. From the people that I have spoken to, you generally do not get remediation unless you are close to passing or have a legitimate reason like health outcomes, etc.
The school will make you meet with someone if your first two exam averages are below 70% to discuss your options, such as taking a Leave of absence, etc.
Ill be honest, if you do not average above a 70% the school usually dismisses you. I do hear from the first years that they are working on some sort of remediation because a lot of the incoming class was not doing well during the 1st semester, but I cant comment on that.
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Wow, I am not sure how I feel about that. Will def reach out to student govenment to learn more about this.
 
Asking for a friend - anyone know when IIs wrap up? My friend has been anxiously waiting for several months to get an interview invite. Thanks!
 
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EArlyBirdGetsTheWorm said:
This is not correct. You have to average a 70% overall on all 6 content exams during the semester. If you do not, you meet with the curriculum committee. From the people that I have spoken to, you generally do not get remediation unless you are close to passing or have a legitimate reason like health outcomes, etc.
The school will make you meet with someone if your first two exam averages are below 70% to discuss your options, such as taking a Leave of absence, etc.
Ill be honest, if you do not average above a 70% the school usually dismisses you. I do hear from the first years that they are working on some sort of remediation because a lot of the incoming class was not doing well during the 1st semester, but I cant comment on that.
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The school is indeed working on a solution for Wellness (1st semester) remediation to help reduce the attrition. Details have yet to be announced. Most people are in academic jeopardy in Wellness and in Acute. Those who had an easier time in Wellness can still struggle in Acute because the material is different, faster paced, and requires more critical thinking. Fewer drop in Chronic, and historically, we are not aware of anyone who has ever been dismissed or needed to repeat Return to Wellness.

Class of 2028 is doing slightly better grade-wise than Class of 2027, however, their Wellness semester attrition appeared higher.

As Acute is drawing to a close soon, some OMS-1 students are now in jeopardy and reaching out to us, the OMS2s for help. If they want any hope of surviving a CSP referral, they need to be reaching out to the school instead, not us. And sooner (earlier), rather than later.

According to the Dean, most attrition is can be attributed to personal reasons, rather than purely academic, reasons. 95% of matriculating students will eventually graduate, though a handful need an extra year, rarely two. Note that COCA accreditation standards set a limit; all students must eventually graduate within 6 years of beginning medical school.

We've had maybe 5-6 classmates at my location removed by CSP since beginning of M1, but only two of those have been permanently dismissed at this point. Many of them are remediating after a leave of absence.

There will always be those who need to take a LOA, and usually, there is a good reason and it eventually works out for the best. God forbid if I have a life-changing event or death in the family during med school, I don't know if I could weather the storm and go on without some type of LOA.

If you are struggling or doing poorly on exams, it is to your benefit to meet with the course director, the learning services coordinators, and to sign up for APSL tutoring. The Committee on Student Progress (CSP) takes these efforts into account when deciding your fate on whether to permit remediation or recommend Leave of Absense vs Dismissal. They track how much students are reaching out and using these services. The students who are making efforts to improve are the ones who are more likely to get favorable outcomes with the Committee. Each case is unique to the student.

IMO, people either fail by the skin of their teeth, or they are failing spectacularly without being even close to the minimum cutoff.

If you have any personal issues (health, family, death, otherwise) that is impacting your academics, take efforts to meet with the learning services coordinators. The earlier, the better, as this protects you. Trying to reach out to the school at the end of the semester just because you are close to failing will not help--they need to see earlier efforts.

As a general policy, the school does not round up your Content Exam Averages if below a 70%. Often, a handful of questions are given back on certain content exams because the content experts had to go back and look at certain questions after the exam grades were originally posted. That's done after Exam 6. Usually a few points at most, but enough to push some students into passing range. Don't bet on this, though.

I've heard of students remediating because they had a 68 or 69.xx%. Some decide not to come back (understandable, it's an extra year of your life and it's stressful enough to go through a semester once), and others take the extra year and are better for it, now excellent residents and physicians. I have only heard of a handful of cases where learning services or a course director successfully advocated to CSP to round up a high 69.xx % Content Exam average, and each of those examples had legitimate personal issues that were documented early on, as well as genuine efforts by the student to recover their exam average. We're talking about extremely unique or rare circumstances, and they were probably 1 or 2 missed questions away from the cutoff. Never hedge your bets or place false hope on the school rounding your grade up. Because statistically, they won't.
 
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RT11001 said:
Technically, you are expected to focus solely on lecture material. However, most students use mandatory class time to study with third-party resources instead.
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Second years are usually the ones studying for boards during class. In Chronic it was a few students, and now in Return to Wellness, it's a solid chunk of us. Feels like only half of the lectures in RTW are useful for boards. A significant portion of the lectures during RTW are mind-numbingly stupid or better suited for OMS1 or literally anytime after medical boards. And for some strange reason, some of the RTW lectures are almost carbon copies of lectures from Wellness. Not a good use of our time, I'll say.
RT11001 said:
Do not rely on med school alone to prepare you for boards. OUHCOM does not use NBME exams, so you should plan to start using AnKing and UWorld/Amboss reinforce board prep. Start AnKing early—you’ll thank me later. Get Uworld closer to boards.
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Like most medical schools, OU-HCOM is out of touch with reality when it comes to medical boards. If you only use school resources for boards, you will likely fail. If you only use AnKing to memorize answers/buzzwords without fully understanding concepts, then you are also shooting yourself in the foot because boards can test you on a subject or pathophys in many different ways. As a supplemental memory retention tool, it's goated.

Doing well on the in-house Content Exams does not guarantee anything because there's too much variability with the style and quality of questions that our professors submit for exams. The poor quality of OU exam questions can paradoxically prepare you for poorly written and verbose COMLEX questions, but USMLE questions are less convoluted, tending to focus more on straightforward minutiae and mechanisms, which we don't focus on as much.
 
I just got the links for my interview next week and it lists the names of the people who will be interviewing me. Do you think I should research and have questions set up about their field of interest/their research projects or is that doing too much?
 
bet1022 said:
I just got the links for my interview next week and it lists the names of the people who will be interviewing me. Do you think I should research and have questions set up about their field of interest/their research projects or is that doing too much?
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that’s what I did and it led to some good conversations
 
medincle said:
If you are interviewing for a spot on the waitlist they would let you know that in your interview invitation.
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medincle said:
If you are interviewing for a spot on the waitlist they would let you know that in your interview invitation.
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Does the interview letter say interviewing for a spot on the waitlist or did the letter say you got an interview and afterwards they said you are on waitlist?
 
bet1022 said:
I just got the links for my interview next week and it lists the names of the people who will be interviewing me. Do you think I should research and have questions set up about their field of interest/their research projects or is that doing too much?
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How did your interview go? What did they ask and how did you prepare?
 
TheHopeDoc said:
How did your interview go? What did they ask and how did you prepare?
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Got the A! The faculty is super nice and easy to talk to. A lot of the same basic questions you always see. They have your file in front of them so a lot of personal questions about your file. I went on SDN interview questions and ran through a rough answer for all of those. Also you’ll know your interviewers ahead of time so I had questions tailored for each of my interviewers.
 
IS II today. Does anyone know if at this point if the interviews are for waitlist spots? It did not explicitly mention anything about the waitlist.
 
Currently on Dublin and Athen waitlist! Will update this thread if anything changes. 😊😎
 
Does anyone have any idea what happens if you try to defer admission so you can start the following year due to financial circumstances, and what the process is like?
 
Doctor_2BE said:
Does anyone have any idea what happens if you try to defer admission so you can start the following year due to financial circumstances, and what the process is like?
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I wouldn't mention something like this to admissions until you are offered admission. I don't know if it will hurt you chances of getting accepted if they think you're not going to be able to start until the next year. I could be wrong though, especially since it's probably very circumstantial.
 
mrwaitlist1 said:
I wouldn't mention something like this to admissions until you are offered admission. I don't know if it will hurt you chances of getting accepted if they think you're not going to be able to start until the next year. I could be wrong though, especially since it's probably very circumstantial.
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I have already been accepted and paid my deposit. I even submitted my immunization documents. I just don’t want them to think I that won’t go there next year or go through interviews and personal statements all over again.
 
Doctor_2BE said:
I have already been accepted and paid my deposit. I even submitted my immunization documents. I just don’t want them to think I that won’t go there next year or go through interviews and personal statements all over again.
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Cant hurt to ask, I'd just explain your situation and hopefully they can work with you one something. You wouldn't be the first person to defer, and wont be the last.
 
Guys how did you get your immunization forms filled out? Did you go to your primary care doctor ?
 
MD-Soon said:
Thank you
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You can usually send you doctor the blank AAMC vaccination form via MyChart/EMR message or bring a blank printout to their office. They (physician) or their designated midlevel are permitted to sign.
 
Hi, for those that have been accepted, I have seen a lot of different numbers for the cost of tuition here. I have been accepted and am wondering, what is the true cost of tuition for the first year/ first semester?
 
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iLoveA&P said:
Hi, for those that have been accepted, I have seen a lot of different numbers for the cost of tuition here. I have been accepted and am wondering, what is the true cost of tuition for the first year/ first semester?
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There is a "financial aid cheat sheet" in the
"HCOM Interview Day Handouts" which they send out in the pre-interview email a few days before your interview. That cheat sheet has a layout of all four years of tuition, that’s what I’ve been going off of 🙂
 
ohiostudent_23 said:
There is a "financial aid cheat sheet" in the
"HCOM Interview Day Handouts" which they send out in the pre-interview email a few days before your interview. That cheat sheet has a layout of all four years of tuition, that’s what I’ve been going off of 🙂
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Hi, they recently sent another cheat sheet that's set up differently, and the total comes out to a different total cost. I think I will just go based on the second one they sent from the financial aid office regarding FAFSA and loans. Just felt weird requesting loans when I have seen two different totals. Thanks!
 
iLoveA&P said:
Hi, they recently sent another cheat sheet that's set up differently, and the total comes out to a different total cost. I think I will just go based on the second one they sent from the financial aid office regarding FAFSA and loans. Just felt weird requesting loans when I have seen two different totals. Thanks!
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I could be wrong but I think the two total difference are IS vs OOS tuition costs. I’ve seen it’s like something roughly 40K tuition and cost of attendance being like 85K for in state and I don’t remember tuition for OOS but it was like 105K cost of attendance for out of state
 
I am accepted to the Athens campus WL on my #1 Cle campus. Do they move accepted students off of campus WL? Most likely going to sign a lease for athens soon so just curious if there is any likelihood I’ll get off CLE WL
 
bet1022 said:
I am accepted to the Athens campus WL on my #1 Cle campus. Do they move accepted students off of campus WL? Most likely going to sign a lease for athens soon so just curious if there is any likelihood I’ll get off CLE WL
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When did you get accepted?
 
Does this school do Rs? Still haven't heard anything since 2* submission. Mentally might write this one off as an R oop.
 
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