Specialties and UNECOM

[carn311]

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My wife and I are IN LOVE with UNECOM 👍. The campus is spectacular, people are friendly, and everyone I have talked to, including a graduate, has raved about the quality of education. This is definitely my first choice school.

But looking at their latest match list brings me pause. I have a passing interest in primary care but more than likely I will find myself in a specialty (ala Anesthesia/CCM).

My question is: Why are so many UNECOM graduates choosing primary care? Is it the preference of the students? Is primary care emphasized in the curriculum? or is there another reason entirely?

Thanks!

 

[DrMom]

Specialty choice is a personal decision. Most, if not all, DO schools emphasize primary care, but everyone is free to choose whatever they wish (and are qualified to match in).

 

[carn311]

I suppose that's what I was eluding to...

Do UNE's graduates not do well in the match? Or is their primary care preference just a result of the sample of students that matriculate at UNECOM?

 

[Jack Daniel]

Match info is on the UNECOM website, but 2006 may not be there yet. This info was posted unofficially in the 2010 class thread. As you can see, folks matched into several non-primary-care fields:

UNECOM postgraduate training destinations 2006


Programs designated:
PGY-1 begin July 1, 2006; PGY-2 programs begin July 1, 2007
T = Traditional Rotating Internship


PROGRAM HOSPITAL ST
ANES Baystate Medical Center MA
ANES Cleveland Clinic Foundation OH
ANES (PGY-2) Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Med Ctr MA
ANES (PGY-2) Univ of Maryland Medical Center MD
ANES (PGY-2) SUNY Upstate Medical Center NY
CMB: EM/EM Doctors Hosp OH
CMB: FP/FP Maine-Dartmouth FP Res ME
CMB: FP/FP Maine-Dartmouth FP Res ME
CMB: FP/FP Maine-Dartmouth FP Res ME
CMB: FP/FP St. Luke’s Hosp PA
CMB: IM/IM St. Luke’s Hosp PA
CMB: S/GEN SURG Henry Ford-Bi-County Hosp MI
CMB: T/EM Lehigh Valley/Muhlenberg Hosps PA
CMB: T/FP St. Joseph Reg Med Ctr IN
CMB: T/FP North Shore Univ Hosp NY
CMB: T/FP-OMT Univ of New England ME
CMB: T/FP-OMT Univ of New England ME
CMB: T/GEN SURG St. John’s Episcopal Hospital NY
CMB: T/GEN SURG Philadelphia Consortium Hosps PA
CMB: T/ORTHO SURG PCOM PA
CMB: T/PM&R Ingham Regional Med Ctr MI
COMB: PED/PED Palms West Hosp FL
DIAG RAD (PGY-2) Univ of Massachusetts Med School MA
DIAG RAD (PGY-2) St. Vincent’s Hospital NY
EM Univ of Connecticut Health Ctr CT
EM Medical College of Georgia GA
EM Baystate Medical Center MA
EM Morristown Memorial Hospital NJ
EM Morristown Memorial Hospital NJ
EM Albert Einstein Med Ctr PA
EM Hershey Medical Center PA
FM Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island RI
FP Univ of Colorado CO
FP Middlesex Hospital CT
FP Idaho State Univ Program ID
FP Univ of Massachusetts Med School MA
FP Eastern Maine Med Ctr ME
FP Eastern Maine Med Ctr ME
FP Eastern Maine Med Ctr ME
FP Eastern Maine Med Ctr ME
FP Womack Army Community Hosp NC
FP Cabarrus FP Residency - NE Med Ctr Program NC
FP Dewitt Army Community Hosp VA
FP Madigan Army Med Ctr WA
FP Swedish Medical Center-Providence WA
IM Univ of Iowa Hosps & Clinics IA
IM Univ of Massachusetts Med School MA
IM Cambridge Hospital MA
IM Lahey Clinic MA
IM Baystate Medical Center MA
IM Mt. Auburn Hospital MA
IM Maine Medical Center ME
IM Maine Medical Center ME
IM Maine Medical Center ME
IM Maine Medical Center ME
IM Dartmouth-Hitchcock Med Ctr NH
IM Mary Imogene Bassett Med Ctr NY
IM Albany Medical Center NY
IM St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital NY
IM Brooke Army Med Ctr TX
IM Texas Tech Univ Program TX
IM Brooke Army Med Ctr TX
OB/GYN St. Francis Hospital CT
OB/GYN Maine Medical Center ME
OB/GYN Univ of Minnesota Med School MN
OB/GYN Strong Memorial Med Ctr NY
ORTHO SURG NY Med College (Brooklyn-Queens) Program NY
PED Phoenix Children’s/Maricopa Med Ctr AZ
PED Phoenix Children’s/Maricopa Med Ctr AZ
PED Baystate Medical Center MA
PED Maine Medical Center ME
PED UMDNJ/Robt Wood Johnson Med Ctr NJ
PED St. Vincent’s Hospital NY
PED Children’s Hosp/Med Ctr of Akron OH
PED Children’s Hosp/Med Ctr of Akron OH
PED Geisinger Medical Center PA
PM&R (PGY-2) Sinai Hospital of Baltimore MD
PM&R (PGY-2) NYU School of Medicine NY
PM&R (PGY-2) Thomas Jefferson Univ Program PA
PREL IM (PGY-1) Morristown Memorial Hospital NJ
PREL MED (PGY-1) Lahey Clinic MA
PREL SURG LAC-Harbor-UCLA Med Ctr CA
PSY Univ of Minnesota Med School MN
PSY UMDNJ/Robt Wood Johnson Med Ctr NJ
PSY Strong Memorial Med Ctr NY
PSY Brown Univ Program RI
PSY Univ of Utah Program UT
T Univ of Connecticut Health Ctr CT
T Univ of Connecticut Health Ctr CT
T Univ of Connecticut Health Ctr CT
T Berkshire Med Ctr MA
T St. Vincent Hosp MA
T UMass/Memorial Healthcare MA
T UMass/Memorial Healthcare MA
T UNE/Mercy Hospital ME
T UNE/Mercy Hospital ME
T Central Maine Med Ctr ME
T Oakwood South Shore Med Ctr MI
T NH Dartmouth-Concord Hosp NH
T NH Dartmouth-Concord Hosp NH
T Scranton-Temple Univ Hosp PA
T Bay Area Corpus Christi Med Ctr TX
T (PGY-1) St. Vincent Hosp MA
T (PGY-1) UMass/Memorial Healthcare MA
T (PGY-1) Union Hospital NJ
T (PGY-1) Union Hosp NJ
T (PGY-1) Samaritan Medical Center NY
TRANS Naval Med Ctr VA

 

[wook]

I suppose that's what I was eluding to...

Do UNE's graduates not do well in the match? Or is their primary care preference just a result of the sample of students that matriculate at UNECOM?

As far as I know, UNE graduates generally match into the field that they want. Many of my classmates were interested in primary care, but others were interested in different specialties (eg EM, Surgery, anesthesia, psych, OB/GYN, radiology). Each year each class will be different in what appeals to its members.

Wook

 

[fullefect1]

"CMB: T/ORTHO SURG PCOM PA" ... Are all the matches for the PCOM orthopedics listed like this? Why not just be listed under ORTHO and not CMB? I see the transitional year, but wouldn't that be assumed?

 

[wook]

"CMB: T/ORTHO SURG PCOM PA" ... Are all the matches for the PCOM orthopedics listed like this? Why not just be listed under ORTHO and not CMB? I see the transitional year, but wouldn't that be assumed?

Perhaps what they are indicating is that the first and subsequent years are at the site. Otherwise folks may have the option of doing a transitional year elsewhere and matching for the subsequent training (e.g Anesthesiology --Transition year in Massachusetts with one program and years 2-4 in New York with another.).


Wook

 

[silas2642]

Don't worry too much about the match list when you're looking into schools. Just because people in previous years matched into places you love/hate, doesn't mean that you're going to have a similar fate. The thing you need to keep your mind on is finding a place where you and your family will be happy and where you will be able to succeed in your medical education. If you do well at UNECOM, you'll do just fine in the match.

 

[wook]

Don't worry too much about the match list when you're looking into schools. Just because people in previous years matched into places you love/hate, doesn't mean that you're going to have a similar fate. The thing you need to keep your mind on is finding a place where you and your family will be happy and where you will be able to succeed in your medical education. If you do well at UNECOM, you'll do just fine in the match.

👍

 

[group_theory]

percentage of 2002-2004 graduates who enter primary care (however defined by USNews - ask them what their definition of primary care is).
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/webextras/brief/sb_med_primarycare_brief.php

WVSOM - 87.3%
MSU-COM - 85.8%
PCSOM - 78.0%
TCOM - 77.7%
NSUCOM - 77.0%
UNECOM - 67.2%
OSU-COM - 67.0%
LECOM - 61.0%
OUCOM - 58.0%
TUCOM - 52.0%
DMU-COM 46.5%
KCOM - 45.7%
NYCOM - 45.0%
PCOM - 37.0%

(COMP/Western, AZCOM, CCOM, KCUMB/UHS, UMDNJ-SOM not listed)

To give you an idea of where the MD schools stands

University of Nebraska College of Medicine 61.0%
Drexel University - 52.0%
George Washington University - 50.2%
University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill - 48.0%
University of Chicago (Pritzker) - 47.0%
Harvard University - 41.0%
New York University - 38.8%
Johns Hopkins - 37.0%
University of Pennsylvania - 37.0%

DO schools make up the top 6 schools that send its graduates into primary care, and 9 out of the top 10 schools are DO.

There are 21 schools that have fewer percentages of its graduates go into primary care than PCOM. They are:

University of Utah 36.3%
Texas Tech University 36.0%
University of Cincinnati 36.0%
Univ. of Texas Houston 35.3%
Howard University 35.0%
Uniformed Services Univ. of the Health Sciences 35.0%
University of Pittsburgh 34.9%
Boston University 34.7%
University of California--San Francisco 34.5%
Northeastern Ohio Univ. 33.0%
Columbia U. 32.7%
University of South Dakota 32.3%
Stanford University 32.1%
University of Rochester 32.1%
Mayo Medical School 32.0%
Vanderbilt University 31.0%
Yale University 30.2%
University of Tennessee 30.0%
Washington University 30.0%
University of Michigan 29.9%
University of North Dakota 28.0%