i'm am just wondering why this is important to people. If their pass rates were horrible, like 60% or something, then I would see the point. But it's going to be around 85-90 right? and comparing between schools doesn't really matter unless you plan on being in the bottom 30% of your class, and have to worry about passing. the 5-10% difference between schools really wont matter as long as you work hard and study your butt off for the boards (probably no matter where you stand in your class rank).
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I recently looked into this topic.
National average = 92%
Western = 96%
Touro-MI = 98%
They are essentially the same..
National average = 92%
Western = 96%
Touro-MI = 98%
They are essentially the same..
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buzzieboo said:
For the love of god.....it doesn't friggin' matter!!!!!!!!!! Search other posts.
Do you want to live in Northern California or Southern California????
You could be lazy student at either program and do crappy on the boards....or you could study hard at either program and crush the boards.
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Vince is just aggravated (not at you, but in general) because he just saw this same question on this topic the other day in these forums..
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melancholy said:
thanks melancholy. jeez...i was just curious. 🙂
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No problem, but once you get into our position of giving advice rather than asking for advice, you'll understand that time is valuable and you try to encourage people to centralize information so it isn't repeated too many times...buzzieboo said:
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Seems a bit high for Western, but I'll say that the board pass rates for Western vary from class to class between low 90% and high 80%. Since they switched the curriculum from having two weeks to five weeks to study for boards, I'm curious to see how it will all turn out.Informer said:
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Informer said:
I got the number for Western by calling them up and asking them. They routed my calls a few times until I got someone who said they would look it up and get back to me. I would not be surprised if what she gave me was inflated. As for Touro, I believe I read that somewhere on SDN.
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melancholy said:
switching from 2 weeks to 5 weeks? sounded like old news.
I was told that a while back COMP students had 2 weeks to study for COMLEX. but, i would venture to guess that COMP students have been allowed to have ~4 weeks to study for COMLEX (the June testing date) for several years now.
my class has about 4 weeks to study for COMLEX. the class before had slightly longer than that. The pass rates are very similar (consistent with melancholy's numbers). The current sophomore class has a little more time than previous years.
COMP's curriculum (first 2 years) includes a lot of clinical sciences, which won't be on Level 1 or USMLE step 1. my feeling is that it diverted attention from the basic sciences and contributed to COMP's below average performance on COMLEX (potentially USMLE as well) among DO schools.
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osler said:
I was originally class of 2005, but due to the teaching fellowship I will be graduating in 2006. Our 2005 class had about 2 weeks. Things may have changed a little bit the last two years, but the class of 2008 will get a significant increase with about 4 weeks for Step 1 and the 2009 class will have up to 5 weeks. It really is a big difference when you consider people have to take ACLS, move for rotations, take USMLE in addition to COMLEX, take board courses, etc. In my opinion, it may not be "several" years ago that this changed, but it has changed within the last few years.
It's true that COMP's curriuculum has had a great deal of clinical lectures whereas the basic sciences lectures are not as comprehensive in certain areas. As a result, we do see that students tend to do a lot better on Step 2 than Step 1 although the COMLEX Step 1 has had a gradual shift towards more clinical questions. The biggest concern was probably preparation for USMLE Step 1, but people who are motivated enough to take it will have to learn extra material on their own.
