An update on Osteopathic Medical School Admissions

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An update on Osteopathic Medical School Admissions

• Some not so random information.
• Tom Levitan
• AACOM

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Gettysburg Cemetery Dedication

• Abraham Lincoln

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• Some data on the Osteopathic Medicine applicant
  and matriculant pool
• Size and growth
• Quantitative measures of quality/performance
• Race/ethnicity and gender
• The Future

AACOM
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AACOM
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Data for 2005-06 entering class

• 8255 total applications filed
• 3743 first year matriculants

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Data for 2004-05 entering class

• Underrepresented minority
• Applicants 11.3
• First year students 8.9
• All students 8.2
• Women
• Applicants 50.3
• First year students 50.1
• All students 48.9

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Applicant/Matriculant MCAT and GPA

• 2004-05 matriculants
• GPA
• Science 3.33
• Non-science 3.53
• Overall 3.43
• MCAT
• Biological Sci 8.53
• Physical Sci 7.89
• Verbal 8.24

• 2005-06 applicants
• GPA
• Science 3.25
• Non-science 3.50
• Overall 3.35
• MCAT
• Biological Sci 8.30
• Physical Sci 7.72
• Verbal 8.02

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AACOM
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Development of New COMs
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References

• Download this presentation from
  www.aacom.org/data
• Norvig, Kent. www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/
• AACOM Annual Reports on Osteopathic Medical
  Education available from www.aacom.org
• AAMC Annual Reports on Medical Education
  available from www.aamc.org

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• Humphrey Well, it's clear that the committee has
  agreed that your new policy is a really excellent
  plan but in view of some of the doubts being
  expressed, may I propose that I recall that after
  careful consideration, the considered view of the
  committee was that while they considered that the
  proposal met with broad approval in principle,
  that some of the principles were sufficiently
  fundamental in principle and some of the
  considerations so complex and finely balanced in
  practice, that, in principle, it was proposed
  that the sensible and prudent practice would be
  to submit the proposal for more detailed
  consideration, laying stress on the essential
  continuity of the new proposal with existing
  principles, and the principle of the principal
  arguments which the proposal proposes and
  propounds for their approval in principle.

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• "I can't have information I know would be of
  interest to someone and not share it."
• Sanford Berman (former head cataloger, Hennepin
  County Library System)