Hey here’s a list of all of our sites from when I was still in Kirksville and the number is how many students each site accepts. This is back from when I was a second year so might be a little dated. You can look up the individual hospitals and see what kind of residency programs they have at each site. Type “X hospital residency program”. It’s pretty straightforward. If a hospital doesn’t have a program in a core specialty, assume it’ll be preceptor-based and maybe or maybe not a commute.
Our best site is probably the TX site but it only takes ten people. It’s brand new but super legit. Our sites in Michigan and Arizona are also really good. These three have residencies in just about anything. They are also all very competitive. Michigan and Texas will both fill. I’d pick one to rank first if you’re interested and don’t bother ranking the other bc you won’t get it unless it’s number one. Arizona has tons of sites and at least for my year was a reasonable number 2.
The Ohio sites are variable. I was originally banking on a site that isn’t even available this year, but we randomly got a new one my year. I spoke for a while with the head of the Ohio sites and got the vibe that the overall experience would be solid and they’d bend over backwards for things that matter ie boards, auditions, etc. But they were very upfront that no matter which site you picked you’d likely have a commute to some of your rotations and even went so far as to tell me that bc I have a family, rotating in the ouhcom opti might be hard on my home life. It was honestly a very refreshing level of transparency.
Our core hospital in Kirksville was until recently a very solid site. The company that owns it (CHS) was on the verge of financial collapse. CHS actually got propped up by all the Covid money pumped into hospitals. When I was there, they were losing residencies in IM, Anesthesia, gen surgery, ENT was already gone, and maybe even FM was going. So the only residency program that was going to be there was derm. I don’t know if CHS bouncing back salvaged those residencies or not.
I’ll make an honorable mention of the Ft Wayne site as its very, very solid unopposed FM site. If memory serves correct I think they cover three hospitals.
Most of the other Missouri sites are ok, but not amazing. We lost Joplin to KCU and that was one of our best ones. They added a bunch right before I moved for rotations in St. Louis but I don’t know anything about them tbh.
let me know if you have questions about anything.
