Family Medicine Spreadsheet 2018-2019

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This has been posted on reddit for several days, but here is the spreadsheet for those of you not on that platform.

docs^google^com/spreadsheets/d/1gZiWNKuArCDWhG3jlScaYkRrOhXQLnrcjK1u9eAFqQw/edit#gid=680978465 (I haven't posted enough to format this as a good looking link; replace ^ with .).

Happy Interview Season!

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This has been posted on reddit for several days, but here is the spreadsheet for those of you not on that platform.

docs^google^com/spreadsheets/d/1gZiWNKuArCDWhG3jlScaYkRrOhXQLnrcjK1u9eAFqQw/edit#gid=680978465 (I haven't posted enough to format this as a good looking link; replace ^ with .).

Happy Interview Season!
The spreadsheet doesn't differentiate between, university based vs community based programs, number of applications/ interview invites. So it's hard to discern what board score threshold is needed to apply to university based family medicine programs. As a soon to be M4 applying to FM next year, can anybody who has gone through the process this year have any insight to shed on what USMLE and COMLEX scores are needed to for a DO student to realistically apply to university based programs. This entire process is so expensive, and I don't want to apply to programs that will not consider me. Thanks for the input!
 
The spreadsheet isn't supposed to supplant an individual's own research of programs (finding out university-based vs. community-based). You can use FREIDA database which has information provided by programs that has some of the fields you're interested in (STEP/COMLEX minimum score, # of interviews, academic vs. community, etc). FREIDA is not always the most up to date, but it is usually pretty accurate in my experience. Also for the spreadsheet if you look at the applicant info tab, it does have information about what type of applicant someone is (DO vs. MD vs. IMG), board scores, how many applications an applicant sent, and how many invites they received.

Just a note on university-based vs. community-based, I think there are a ton of hybrid programs for FM that don't fall strictly into academic or community. For example, I have seen programs with:
1. University-based with FM inpatient service at their main university, but also have a community hospital FM service that is unopposed (programs like UC-Denver and UW-Madison come to mind).
2. University-affiliated: Behaves more like a community program where inpatient service is done at community hospital, but have specialty rotations with specialists associated with a university and also have additional resources provided by the academic affiliation. I've noticed these programs are usually in more urban areas.

So all of that to say, for family medicine, it's a lot more nuanced than just looking at community-based vs. university-based.

If you don't mind me asking, is there a specific reason that you are focusing on university-based FM programs?
 
@cj_cregg beat me to the punch and I agree with a lot of the things that they said. Board scores are not the end all be all in FM. As far as community vs. university, I have interviewed at all flavors of programs, and I haven't been able to identify a reason that someone would choose a university-based program over a community-based one strictly because it was university-based. Even if someone is interested in research, there are plenty of community-based programs that do great research.
 
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