osteopathic school rankings

[camisho]

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Hi, does anyone know which osteopathic schools supposedly have the best reputations both with the AOA and MD residency programs? Where do PCOM and UMDNJ-SOM stand? Thanks, and good luck everyone! (If the moderator thinks this would be better in a different forum, please forgive me and kindly move the post where it would feel most at home 😛 )

 

[Dr JPH]

There are no official rankings of DO schools. You would need to view the match lists year by year per school in order to get an idea of where the graduates go.

PCOM sends a good number of grads to traditional rotating internships because of the Pennsylvania requirement so at a glance their match list may not look as impressive as say, NYCOM.

PCOM publishes their match list in the yearbook each year. You can get a copy in student affairs or the school library. Unfortunately there is no online copy.

Here is a copy of the 2002 UMDNJSOM match list:

http://www.acofp.org/state/Match%20Results%20f%C9ass%20of%202002.htm

 

[ripulpancal2000]

I would attend schools that have their own residency programs such as PCOM. I would try to avoid DMU because we do not have our own residency programs. Even though we have connections with some residency programs, other schools also have these connections with the same programs so our students do not have too much of an advantage.

 

[dollarbincommon]

Originally posted by ripulpancal2000
I would attend schools that have their own residency programs such as PCOM. I would try to avoid DMU because we do not have our own residency programs. Even though we have connections with some residency programs, other schools also have these connections with the same programs so our students do not have too much of an advantage.

You mean that PCOM has its own teaching hospital and DMU doesn't?

 

[Dr JPH]

PCOM doesn't have a hospital aymore (thank you, Tenet). BUt they have several residency programs as well as a rotating internship.

http://www.pcom.edu/Graduate_Medical_Education/Residency_Programs/residency_programs.html

 

[ripulpancal2000]

DMU does not have its own teaching hospital.

 

[Docgeorge]

Originally posted by ripulpancal2000
I would attend schools that have their own residency programs such as PCOM. I would try to avoid DMU because we do not have our own residency programs. Even though we have connections with some residency programs, other schools also have these connections with the same programs so our students do not have too much of an advantage.

Ah....wrong angain ripul....hmnnnn let me think for a second oh yeah we (and by we I mean DMU) have a surgery residecncy at Mercy. Also the IM,Peds, and FP residency's at Methodist Usually go to DMU students if they want it. As does the FP at Mercy/Mayo. And oh yeah how about FP and Transitional at Broadlawans???? These are the 3 places in town that have residencies. Hopefully with Mercy Medical Center (main hospital is like 660 beds with over 900 beds in the city) which is applying for AOA and ACGME accredaiton for EM, IM, and a couple of others.

Seriously ripul this bashing DMU is really getting old espically because most of the stuff your saying is not based on fact.


Peace.......

 

[doyoda2004]

From what I have heard. Texas is at the top of the list. The students entering have some of the best statistics for both comlex and usmle board score passage. Also, many of them get into great residency programs like those at Southwestern Medical School and residencys affiliated with the University of Texas in Houston, etc.l..

Also, they are definately at the top in research with the national Osteopathic Research Center housed on the TCOM campus and the fact that they do over 17 million in research annually (more than almost all the other do schools combined.