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  • Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine at Midwestern University
  • Osteopathic Medical School
  • Glendale, AZ
Individual Feedback 5 5 Responses
The Basics

Overall, how satisfied are you with this program?

Response Avg # Responders
5.60 5

0 = Terrible, 10 = World Class

What do you like most?

"Amazing faculty" | Report Response

"The pre-clinical faculty is mostly very good. The neuroscience department is unmatched, the pharm faculty was superb. The campus is very nice and upheld well. The OMM faculty is knowledgable and helpful." | Report Response

"Prepare you for boards" | Report Response

"The speech pathology students. Very nice. Also, the recorded lectures." | Report Response

"Feel well prepared for boards. Major classes seem to follow board prep material pretty well. Program is receptive to change if enough people complain." | Report Response

What do you like least?

"The tuition! Way overpriced. You could get the same level of education at many other DO programs with lower tuition." | Report Response

"Administration is terrible, disorganized, uncoordinated. There is very little student support and feedback. Deans do not listen to student requests which results in student frustration very commonly. The tuition and cost of attendance is not worth it, the education is not world class or to be sought out for the price. Clinical rotations are a hit or miss but thats a common feature of all DO schools. The testing schedule is murder as you're in a constant cram session for 2 years - This is not the way medicine should be taught. Our tuition is constantly wasted on subpar resources (COMBANK, IHuman, etc) and when students suggest getting something like Uworld or Pathoma, we are denied." | Report Response

"Tuition" | Report Response

"Faculty. Not helpful and they play favoritism. They also give away grades, which I find to be rather immoral and unethical." | Report Response

"OMM averages 4 hours a week in mandatory classes which gets annoying second year. Class size of 250 is pretty large." | Report Response

The Details

Does the student body seem cooperative or competitive?

Response Avg # Responders
4.75 4

0 = Competitive, 10 = Cooperative

Does the environment seem supportive for underrepresented minorities?

Response Avg # Responders
4.75 4

0 = Not at all, 10 = Very

Does the environment seem supportive for lesbian/gay/bisexual/transsexual students?

Response Avg # Responders
5.50 4

0 = Not at all, 10 = Very

Does the environment seem supportive for married students?

Response Avg # Responders
7.25 4

0 = Not at all, 10 = Very

Does the environment seem supportive for students with disabilities?

Response Avg # Responders
4.50 4

0 = Not at all, 10 = Very

Does the environment seem supportive for older/non-traditional students?

Response Avg # Responders
4.75 4

0 = Not at all, 10 = Very

Do you/did you feel well prepared for your board exams?

Response Avg # Responders
4.33 3

0 = Not at all, 10 = Very

How approachable are faculty members?

Response Avg # Responders
8.00 5

0 = Not at all, 10 = Very

How do students from this program do after graduation - are they adequately prepared for practice?

"I would say most students are" | Report Response

"I have yet to meet an AZCOM alum that was "adequately" prepared for residency. That being said, newly minted physicians out of medical school rarely are. Residency is where the real clinical learning occurs." | Report Response

"Very well." | Report Response

"Fair. I think overall, very average students." | Report Response

What are rotations like?

"This program has rotations in AZ, CA, and IL. Can't speak for all locations, but the AZ rotations are well liked" | Report Response

"AZCOM has 3 main cohorts; Arizona, California, Chicago. Arizona - AZCOM has local agreements with hospitals that students commonly rotate in. Others are preceptor (not ward) based. Chicago - AZCOM and CCOM are sister schools and share their clinical rotations. California - Can be a complete crapshoot. Most rotations are preceptor based. All students have at least 1 ward based rotation (in California, will likely only be 1 anyway) Setting up electives with AZCOM faculty in 4th year is a chore. Coordinators are misguided and misinformed most of the time, documents and agreements are out of date for many sites, VSAS generally is very useless to DO students to begin with." | Report Response

"Traditonal" | Report Response

"1" | Report Response

"5" | Report Response

How do students from this program do in the Match?

"This program has a decent distribution. The majority of students match IM, FM, and EM. The rest match into various specialties but rarely match into the top competitive specialties such as dermatology or orthopedics." | Report Response

"Typically very well. This has more to do with individual drive and perseverance than the support of the AZCOM faculty in your matching experience. Students who want plastic surgery work very hard to obtain that residency and that is true about all schools." | Report Response

"Very well, Matches at Mayo, Northwestern, UCs, Baylor, Etc" | Report Response

Any other information you want to share?

"Besides the ridiculous tuition, this program also has a ridiculous testing schedule. Roughly 2 exams a week throughout each quarter. Due to the fast pace, we never had the opportunity to spend a good amount of time with any of the material. There also seems to be a more is the better mentality with some of the courses, where they add in a good amount of unnecessary or low-yield information. I recently heard about 1/3 of the class of 2025 were so unprepared they had to delay taking their boards. The osteopathic course and 2nd-year clinical course are highly unorganized, known to have the worst online lectures, and always find ways to waste our time through their workshops/labs. Lastly, there is an obsession with GPA at this school that creates a high-stress environment." | Report Response

"With my experience, AZCOM should be worth half of what the tuition actually costs at most. The interview experience is misleading as you only see what is presented (a very clean facility). The education is not the best and the clinical rotations are adequate at best. The students are the only redeeming quality and it is because of the drive and perseverance to be well educated and ready. AZCOM has not provided me with much to brag about except a 400k+ bill. The faculty is not responsive to student requests, however reasonable they might seem (Uworld instead of COMBANK). The administration is absolutely awful and unorganized. At least the campus always has bright green grass..." | Report Response

"Pkenty of research oppurtunties to" | Report Response

"Even though I intend to graduate in 2021, I wish I had considered my options more carefully before committing to this program. It is underwhelming and very expensive." | Report Response

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