Which DO schools are near Massachusetts?

[MassFX]

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I live in Boston, MA, and I would like to stay close to home. I would be very happy with a DO school. I can't find a good list or map of DO schools, please help me flesh out the list of DO schools near Boston:

Format: School (MCAT) - Notes:

UNECOM (27) - In Biddeford, Maine. I love Maine. I visited this school and really liked it, all the students seemed very happy compared to MD schools.

Touro COM (?) - In Manhattan. I like NYC.

NY Institute of Technology COM (?) - In Old Westbury, NY.

Rowan University (?) - In New Jersey. Does this school still exist as a DO school?

Philadelphia COM (?)

I really liked UNECOM, but the major problem is that you need to do your 2 clinical years in a different city, usually a very rural and very cold city or town in Northern Maine.

Do the other DO schools on this list let you stay in one city for all 4 years?

Thanks.

 

[AlteredScale]

I live in Boston, MA, and I would like to stay close to home. I would be very happy with a DO school. I can't find a good list or map of DO schools, please help me flesh out the list of DO schools near Boston:

Format: School (MCAT) - Notes:

UNECOM (27) - In Biddeford, Maine. I love Maine. I visited this school and really liked it, all the students seemed very happy compared to MD schools.

Touro COM (?) - In Manhattan. I like NYC.

NY Institute of Technology COM (?) - In Old Westbury, NY.

Rowan University (?) - In New Jersey. Does this school still exist as a DO school?

Philadelphia COM (?)

I really liked UNECOM, but the major problem is that you need to do your 2 clinical years in a different city, usually a very rural and very cold city or town in Northern Maine.

Do the other DO schools on this list let you stay in one city for all 4 years?

Thanks.

Rowan is still a DO school and I'm fairly certain they have their own teaching hospital which would allow you to stay there.

 

[DoctorSynthesis]

I live in Boston, MA, and I would like to stay close to home. I would be very happy with a DO school. I can't find a good list or map of DO schools, please help me flesh out the list of DO schools near Boston:

Format: School (MCAT) - Notes:

UNECOM (27) - In Biddeford, Maine. I love Maine. I visited this school and really liked it, all the students seemed very happy compared to MD schools.

Touro COM (?) - In Manhattan. I like NYC.

NY Institute of Technology COM (?) - In Old Westbury, NY.

Rowan University (?) - In New Jersey. Does this school still exist as a DO school?

Philadelphia COM (?)

I really liked UNECOM, but the major problem is that you need to do your 2 clinical years in a different city, usually a very rural and very cold city or town in Northern Maine.

Do the other DO schools on this list let you stay in one city for all 4 years?

Thanks.

http://www.aacom.org/docs/default-source/cib/2015cib_p4-5.pdf?sfvrsn=4

There is a map for you. You pretty much named the close ones. Include a few far away also (nsucom /Vcom/LECOM/lmu) DO schools in the northeast are all hard to get into. Also don't forget about middletown

NYIT hospital affiliations are all generally in new York/ new jersey.

 

[Imnotfromjersey]

NYCOM students can stay in brooklyn, queens, long island for their rotations as far as I know.

Touro-NY students get assigned a base hospital where they stay at and do all of their 3rd core rotations.
Map:
http://tourocom.touro.edu/academics/do-program/rotations/rotation-site-map/

 

[Awesome Sauceome]

A lot of those schools actually end up shipping you all over the place. Ironically, UNECOM ends up shipping people not as far as you think. A lot of people end up only like an hour away. I think some of the best sites are in Lewiston or something which is like 30 min? An hour driving/moving is pretty comparable to most of the schools on your list. Touro doesnt ship as far I hear (maybe just down to Jersey? But you will have a crap ton of traffic), PCOM ships hella far for some people if you are unlucky enough in the lottery, Rowan keeps you really close, NYIT I honestly dont know.

As a side note, the MCAT for Touro is pretty high, I think it might be breaching a 30 or 31 this year. PCOM is probably a 29 this year, maybe a 28, but they tend to have a strange process for picking people. UNECOM is most definitely at least a 28. NYIT will probably be a 27 or 28. Not sure about Rowan.

 

[MassFX]

You all are so helpful, thanks.

I am disappointed to hear that the practice of shipping people away for clinical years is so common.

 

[Awesome Sauceome]

You all are so helpful, thanks.

I am disappointed to hear that the practice of shipping people away for clinical years is so common.

Yea... when you first start looking at DO schools it is definitely disheartening.

But I have come to realize that more important than whether or not they ship you out is whether or not they give you free reign of your 3rd or 4th years. Some schools require that you stay with X,Y.Z hospitals or that you can only do rotations at AOA approved teaching hospitals. But others let you go wherever you want which is awesome. Lets say your school is in New York but you have your heart set on residency in Chicago, you want to end up at the school that gives you the most freedom to do audition rotations at both AOA and ACGME hospitals.

Just some food for thought/ half glass full type of info.

 

[Goro]

Unfortunately, many DO schools do not have teaching hospitals.

You all are so helpful, thanks.

I am disappointed to hear that the practice of shipping people away for clinical years is so common.

 

[WhyDoWeFall]

Rowan is still a DO school and I'm fairly certain they have their own teaching hospital which would allow you to stay there.

You would be correct. For our rotations we are invited to 6 "Hubs" all located in New Jersey. These hubs are Jersey City, Atlantic Health Care (Morristown/Overlook), Ocean, Atlantic City, Vineland, South Jersey (Kennedy Health system which is right next to our school). We are told to do our mandatory rotations in these hubs, during 2nd year you will get to pick which area you wish to go to. If you want to do an elective somewhere outside the state you can as well as long as the hospital is ok with it.

And yes, we are still a DO school even though Cooper (MD) is attached to Rowan as well. We abbreviate our school as RowanSOM to differentiate ourselves, still in the same location (Stratford), still same professors and etc.