Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine of Midwestern University Interview Feedback Summary
Glendale, AZ
Osteopathic Medical Schools | Private Non-Profit
Overall, students rated the program a 5.4 out of 10 for satisfaction. The student body is described as moderately cooperative. The environment is considered supportive for underrepresented minorities, LGBTQ+ students, married students, students with disabilities, non-traditional students. Graduates feel underprepared for board exams. Faculty members are seen as reasonably approachable.
🎓 The Basics ▼
What was the zip code of your residence in high school?
| Response Avg | # Responders |
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| 50,736.80 | 5 |
What do you like most?
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Amazing faculty
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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.
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Prepare you for boards
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The speech pathology students. Very nice. Also, the recorded lectures.
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Feel well prepared for boards. Major classes seem to follow board prep material pretty well. Program is receptive to change if enough people complain.
What do you like least?
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The tuition! Way overpriced. You could get the same level of education at many other DO programs with lower tuition.
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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.
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Tuition
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Faculty. Not helpful and they play favoritism. They also give away grades, which I find to be rather immoral and unethical.
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OMM averages 4 hours a week in mandatory classes which gets annoying second year. Class size of 250 is pretty large.
🧾 The Details ▼
What are the facilities and clinics like (old/new, well maintained, etc.)?
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There are both newer and older buildings. All are well-maintained
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Facilities are mostly new and well maintained.
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New beautiful facilities
How do students from this program do after graduation - are they adequately prepared for practice?
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I would say most students are
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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.
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Very well.
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Fair. I think overall, very average students.
What are rotations like?
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This program has rotations in AZ, CA, and IL. Can't speak for all locations, but the AZ rotations are well liked
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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.
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Traditonal
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1
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5
How do students from this program do in the Match?
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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.
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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.
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Very well, Matches at Mayo, Northwestern, UCs, Baylor, Etc
Any other information you want to share?
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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.
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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...
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Pkenty of research oppurtunties to
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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.
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