- Joined
- Jul 22, 2019
- Messages
- 70
- Reaction score
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BCOM
Pros
ARCOM
Pros
Similarities
Pros
- Graduating first class this year
- Last hurdle in securing COCA accreditation
- Nice weather
- Well-established graduate medical education
- 5 different clerkship sites across NM (1 in AZ)
- Work with unique population of underserved immigrants
- To add to this, I'm pretty passionate on serving spanish-speaking populations. I'm white myself but I do want to expand my spanish skills.
- Kaplan course for COMLEX 1
- Non-mandatory attendance
- No dress code
- P/F starting this upcoming school year
- Expensive. Tuition is $50,455
- Far from home. I'm from the Midwest.
- Lower first time pass rates. ~85% first-time pass rate for COMLEX Level 1 (although I do understand it's largely independent studying)
- Less total time for dedicated
ARCOM
Pros
- Cheaper. Tuition is $43,000.
- President discussed lowering tuition over next several years
- Beautiful on-campus housing and stores
- Associated with current grad program and upcoming PT/other programs
- Actively working on GME
- Multiple clerkship sites
- Only competing with 1 other medical school in the state
- 3 months of dedicated
- Research opportunities
- EDIT 11/21/2019: ACGME approved ARCOM to provide GME back in January. In a separate article, ARCOM is now partnered with Unity Health for GME. They were already partnered with Mercy Health, Baptist Health, and "every major hospital in the state."
GME is not as clear as BCOM's. School seems to be working on GME but was not clear on number of spots.- No data on 1st time pass rates for COMLEX 1
- Graduating 1st class in 2021
- Location isn't the best. Rather secluded area of rural Arkansas.
- I'm much more used to urban environments which is why I liked Las Cruces over Fort Smith
- Also far from home.
- Weather kinda sucks
- Percentage-based grades
- Strict business casual dress code
- Mandatory attendance if you drop below 80% in biochem class
Similarities
- Federal loans
- State-of-the-art simulation labs
- Numerous cadavers
- Both have beautiful, new campus buildings
- Both lack data on COMLEX 2 PE/CE and COMLEX 3
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