2025-2026 Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-HCOM)

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All OU-HCOM applicants will be required to submit at least two essays:

1. Required Essay - There are philosophical and tangible differences between osteopathic and allopathic medicine. Describe what being an osteopathic physician means to you, and what qualities make a good osteopathic physician. What have you done to gain knowledge and experience of osteopathic medicine?

2. Selected Essay (choose one) -

I. Describe the community in which you were nurtured or spent the majority of your early development. What core values did you receive and howwill these translate into the contributions you hope to make to your community as a medical student and later as a physician?

II. There are multiple paths that lead to medical school and many obstacles along the way. Please describe the unique path that has led you to medicine as well as any obstacle or adversity that you had to overcome in achieving this goal. How will this experience affect your career as a physician?

III. What has been your most meaningful life experience (I.e., family situation, clinical or shadowing experience, volunteer experience, etc.) that influenced your decision to pursue medicine?



Good luck to everyone applying!

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What is the character count/word limit for each essay?
For the two required essays, there are no required word/character counts to follow. But if you want to pursue a dual program like DO/MPH, the essay for why you want to pursue that is 250 words or less.
 
For the two required essays, there are no required word/character counts to follow. But if you want to pursue a dual program like DO/MPH, the essay for why you want to pursue that is 250 words or less.
Thank you!!!!
 
OOS Secondary received 7/8!!!
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my mentor graduated from here and is a resident now in Kentucky and will be a fellow at an Ivy League school, he was also OOS. So don't let that hold you back.

Are you saying he got out of the contract somehow? Or he has to go back to Ohio after his fellowship?
 
You ready to spend the next decade in Ohio? That OOS contract is the only trying holding me back.
As long as the incoming class is made up of at least 80% Ohio residents then they nullify the contract. They have never historically had less than ~92% Ohio residents in the class so they've never actually had to act upon the contract. They don't expect to ever have to use it.
 
As long as the incoming class is made up of at least 80% Ohio residents then they nullify the contract. They have never historically had less than ~92% Ohio residents in the class so they've never actually had to act upon the contract. They don't expect to ever have to use it.
Is this 80% stated somewhere in the contract/website?
 
As long as the incoming class is made up of at least 80% Ohio residents then they nullify the contract. They have never historically had less than ~92% Ohio residents in the class so they've never actually had to act upon the contract. They don't expect to ever have to use it.

Wait, what??? When I asked them, they said there is no getting out of it and we must do all 5 years.

If what you say is true, i’ll apply right now. But admissions gave me a very different story than you are.
 
As long as the incoming class is made up of at least 80% Ohio residents then they nullify the contract. They have never historically had less than ~92% Ohio residents in the class so they've never actually had to act upon the contract. They don't expect to ever have to use it.
I see how one could make the inference that they don't enforce after 80%. If OUHCOM consistently meets or exceeds the 80% Ohio resident requirement, they probably feel less compelled to enforce the out-of-state contracts for every individual breach, as the overall legislative goal is being met. I can't find anything explicitly stated in the contract or on their website.
 
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