2025-2026 Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine (ACOM)

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Goro said:
Honestly, these policies are fair. They prevent people who get into a cycle of fail-> remediate->pass, fail-> remediate->pass, etc, until they fail Boards multiple times and wash out with 2-4 years of Medical school debt.

Failing a remediation is a sign that one is a high risk student.
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Aren’t these policies also pretty standard across schools?
 
They won’t listen and rules are pretty strict and conveniently written in their favor
 
Goro said:
Honestly, these policies are fair. They prevent people who get into a cycle of fail-> remediate->pass, fail-> remediate->pass, etc, until they fail Boards multiple times and wash out with 2-4 years of Medical school debt.

Failing a remediation is a sign that one is a high risk student.
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One of the doctors I work with attended LSU, and even as an MD, they had the same rules. He said the same thing. They're investing in us as much as we are investing in them. So, they want to push the doctors out as soon as possible. Multiple remediations prevent this and mess with class sizes.
 
ajaxmonkey said:
One of the doctors I work with attended LSU, and even as an MD, they had the same rules. He said the same thing. They're investing in us as much as we are investing in them. So, they want to push the doctors out as soon as possible. Multiple remediations prevent this and mess with class sizes.
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Class size started at 208 and now it’s 169 or even less
 
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Nobody helps. They won’t communicate how many students are gone so it’s all students connecting each other and discussing among themselves

Nope ,nobody are repeating all are gone and looking for other options
 
RK2023 said:
Nobody helps. They won’t communicate how many students are gone so it’s all students connecting each other and discussing among themselves

Nope ,nobody are repeating all are gone and looking for other options
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Are any of those repeating the/a year? Nope

Does ACOM have a Learning Center? Yeah , but no actual help as second years learned from different material and they can’t help
Does ACOM have a counseling center? Yeah , but that counselor got fired and no use

Heard some students are filed/filing a lawsuit too
 
Kobeleo62 said:
I would highly suggest everyone reading what that man/woman saying above with a grain of salt. If you go on reddit or other websites there are multiple students who go to ACOM who praise the school for being very helpful, they even setup rotations for you (some schools don't do this), they give you UpTODate, Epocrates+, VisualDx, Uworld, Truelearn, and many more. Now keep in mind not every school is perfect. Most of the time when you see someone bashing a school online it usually due to their own fault by not studying hard enough but then blame it on the school.
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I can only say Good luck to all who attend ACOM 🙏
 
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I went in person and they had a three hour conference talking about all of their resources. They have 32 rotation sites that you can choose from and you spend third and fourth year there. They have an entire office that coordinates all of that. Also they allow students to rotate in other areas with approval from their office as long as they can find preceptors. One student was able to move back to her home state of Alaska and do her rotations there. They matched a student into dermatology this past cycle also and encourage students to take USMLE and COMLEX if they want to pursue a more competitive specialty and they provide four year subscriptions to UWorld and COMBank so students can study for boards at the expense of the school. They compete in the SimChallenge contests every year through teams coming out of their simulation labs and are 6-time national champions -- they beat out Baylor and Yale this past year. They're also a fairly new school (12 years old) and they already have a 10-year accredidation status.

In summary: every school will have its pros and cons but if someone is telling you not to go, do your own research. The student body will give you what you want to know and look at the research! Student outcomes, student happiness. When I went there it seemed like a great school with great outcomes and flexibility for students. There are many others schools that may be more forgiving with remediation policies and less forgiving with boards. I know some schools that force students to pay thousands of dollars for a prep course if they don't complete Step "on time". Pick the school that's best for you but don't let one person deter you from attending somewhere that from my perspective is a good school.

Don't get discouraged by the comments if this is your only option, it's a great option to have!
 
Goro said:
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Pretty much. VCOM and UNECOM come to mind. A fair number of schools will allow for a LOA instead of pulling the trigger, though.
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UNECOM does not have that policy. You are not dismissed upon failure of remediation. You are given the opportunity ot repeat the year. The only reason for dismissal at UNE is failure to complete coursework within 6 years (ie you can remediate twice), or failure to pass COMLEX on your 3rd attempt.
This is a much different policy if I'm understanding it correctly, it's saying if you end up failing one year, you are dismissed, is this correct?
 
verytired said:
UNECOM does not have that policy. You are not dismissed upon failure of remediation. You are given the opportunity ot repeat the year. The only reason for dismissal at UNE is failure to complete coursework within 6 years (ie you can remediate twice), or failure to pass COMLEX on your 3rd attempt.
This is a much different policy if I'm understanding it correctly, it's saying if you end up failing one year, you are dismissed, is this correct?
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Yes , if you fail the remediation course then you are dismissed and you can’t repeat the first year
 
medcrazy71 said:
Nobody helps. They won’t communicate how many students are gone so it’s all students connecting each other and discussing among themselves

Nope ,nobody are repeating all are gone and looking for other options
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medcrazy71 said:
Yes , if you fail the remediation course then you are dismissed and you can’t repeat the first year
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Yeah no - UNECOM does not do this. If you fail a test, you retake that test. If you fail the retake, you repeat the year, you are not dismissed.
If you fail the year i.e. like second year with 3 test failures (different than first year), you repeat the year, you do not get dismissed.
Dismissal is not finishing medical school within 6 years, or like I said about COMLEX.
ACOM sounds like you fail a test, if you fail the retake, you're not allowed to remediate and you're dismissed. Am I getting that right?
 
PagingDrDisco said:
I went in person and they had a three hour conference talking about all of their resources. They have 32 rotation sites that you can choose from and you spend third and fourth year there. They have an entire office that coordinates all of that. Also they allow students to rotate in other areas with approval from their office as long as they can find preceptors. One student was able to move back to her home state of Alaska and do her rotations there. They matched a student into dermatology this past cycle also and encourage students to take USMLE and COMLEX if they want to pursue a more competitive specialty and they provide four year subscriptions to UWorld and COMBank so students can study for boards at the expense of the school. They compete in the SimChallenge contests every year through teams coming out of their simulation labs and are 6-time national champions -- they beat out Baylor and Yale this past year. They're also a fairly new school (12 years old) and they already have a 10-year accredidation status.

In summary: every school will have its pros and cons but if someone is telling you not to go, do your own research. The student body will give you what you want to know and look at the research! Student outcomes, student happiness. When I went there it seemed like a great school with great outcomes and flexibility for students. There are many others schools that may be more forgiving with remediation policies and less forgiving with boards. I know some schools that force students to pay thousands of dollars for a prep course if they don't complete Step "on time". Pick the school that's best for you but don't let one person deter you from attending somewhere that from my perspective is a good school.

Don't get discouraged by the comments if this is your only option, it's a great option to have!
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Piggybacking off of this, there's a user from last year's thread, @Grifalicious, who was a fourth-year student at ACOM and answered many questions throughout that thread. If you're worried about the school, I'd look for their answers to questions. They helped settle a lot of my questions/doubts
 
PagingDrDisco said:
I went in person and they had a three hour conference talking about all of their resources. They have 32 rotation sites that you can choose from and you spend third and fourth year there. They have an entire office that coordinates all of that. Also they allow students to rotate in other areas with approval from their office as long as they can find preceptors. One student was able to move back to her home state of Alaska and do her rotations there. They matched a student into dermatology this past cycle also and encourage students to take USMLE and COMLEX if they want to pursue a more competitive specialty and they provide four year subscriptions to UWorld and COMBank so students can study for boards at the expense of the school. They compete in the SimChallenge contests every year through teams coming out of their simulation labs and are 6-time national champions -- they beat out Baylor and Yale this past year. They're also a fairly new school (12 years old) and they already have a 10-year accredidation status.

In summary: every school will have its pros and cons but if someone is telling you not to go, do your own research. The student body will give you what you want to know and look at the research! Student outcomes, student happiness. When I went there it seemed like a great school with great outcomes and flexibility for students. There are many others schools that may be more forgiving with remediation policies and less forgiving with boards. I know some schools that force students to pay thousands of dollars for a prep course if they don't complete Step "on time". Pick the school that's best for you but don't let one person deter you from attending somewhere that from my perspective is a good school.

Don't get discouraged by the comments if this is your only option, it's a great option to have!
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Very well said.
 
papriika said:
Piggybacking off of this, there's a user from last year's thread, @Grifalicious, who was a fourth-year student at ACOM and answered many questions throughout that thread. If you're worried about the school, I'd look for their answers to questions. They helped settle a lot of my questions/doubts
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Thanks for the shout-out! To anyone in the thread, feel free to reach out via DM or here, and I'll do my best to get back to you ASAP!
 
verytired said:
Yeah no - UNECOM does not do this. If you fail a test, you retake that test. If you fail the retake, you repeat the year, you are not dismissed.
If you fail the year i.e. like second year with 3 test failures (different than first year), you repeat the year, you do not get dismissed.
Dismissal is not finishing medical school within 6 years, or like I said about COMLEX.
ACOM sounds like you fail a test, if you fail the retake, you're not allowed to remediate and you're dismissed. Am I getting that right?
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Yes that’s true
 
Just finished my interview. It's a very chill interview just be yourself don't do too much. They just want to see who you are as a person so don't seem too robotic or rehearsed with your answers.
 
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