Dismissing someone for a single course failure is egregious. Having said that, I don't see why an MD school would take a chance on someone who failed first semester block. How many courses and by how much?. Now, if only OMM and other grades are good, then that might be different.Although I don't know how PDs would view failing the course that distinctively makes you a DO when reviewing candidate for their programs. Many fail or remediate OMM.because they listen to bad advice on SDN. OMM is not a huge time sink and has lots of crossover with anatomy.and H & P. So it's not a complete waste of time. Just need to pass. Students get in trouble because they don't want to learn OMM and are in DO school, not because of their desire to be a DO, but because their stats weren't good enough to get into an MD school. My school took it seriously. Now a failure there, if not by a lot, one would have to pass a remediation exam between semesters. Fail that, take a remediation course over the summer. Fail that, possible dismissal and possibly repeat the year.