Best Facilities and Best Residencies

[sepaul]

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Hello pre-DO people:

My question is which campusus you have visited have the best facilities and the best opportunities for rotations and residencies?

THANKS!!
Sean

 

[eadysx]

Hello pre-DO people:

My question is which campusus you have visited have the best facilities and the best opportunities for rotations and residencies?

THANKS!!
Sean

Sorry, but there is no good answer to this question. What is best for you may not be best for me or the person next to me. If you are intrested in picking a school, I would think about what part of the country you would be happy going to school in, how large a class you can do well in, and what type of learning is best for you. (PBL etc.) As far as residency goes, you are your own best ticket. Do well on the COMLEX and USMLE (if you take it) and the world is yours. Good luck!

E-

 

[OSUdoc08]

Hospitals/Residencies:
Consider a school that has its own osteopathic hospital on campus in a high population area. Examples include TCOM (Ft. Worth, TX) and OSU-COM (Tulsa, OK). Osteopathic hospitals in urban areas provide many opportunities for residency & often have partnerships with other hospitals in the area. Osteopathic hospitals in low population areas will often have minimal opportunities because of the size, and you may have to travel.

Campuses: New schools like AZCOM have brand new & high-tech facilities. Somewhat older schools may have brand new facilities built, such as at OSU-COM. Very old schools like KCOM have very old facilities & lack much of today's technology.

 

[Chronotropic]

In general I would say the older schools have established themselves pretty well in terms of oppurtunities for away rotations and residency placement. Not because there are "better" but just because more people in the field are likely to know the school and be familiar with the quality of students and education there. Then again when AZCOM was relatively new they placed two students in allo derm programs.
As far as facilities go, I think Quinn said it best in an old thread, it doesn't really matter where you go since you'll only be spending your first two years on campus. And most of that will be spent with your nose in a book.
Go where you are the most comfortable, do well in class, and do well on the boards. If you do all that you should be fine.

 

[delicatefade]

CCOM seems to be well respected and to have lots of rotation opportunities in the Chicago area.