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Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Georgia Campus

Suwanee, GA

Osteopathic Medical Schools | Private Non-Profit

Overall, students rated the program a 2.5 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

Overall, how satisfied are you with this program?

What was the zip code of your residence in high school?

Response Avg # Responders
24,502.00 5

What do you like most?

What do you like least?

  • Clinical Education. Their meetings are disorganized and and full of double speak, making it impossible to give them what they want. They don't respond to emails and have admitted in the past that they won't if they feel they don't need to respond. The major issue with this is, emails include questions indicating a point of confusion or dispute. This typically would be something that would require a response. When students aren't able to perform to a standard that is never communicated to them, Clinical Education staff respond with professionalism violations and aggressive emails. PCOM-GA is rapidly losing preceptors in the area and it is very easy to see why when the ClinEd department behaves the way they do.
  • Everything that has to do with the administration, quite literally everything. Also the building or “campus” as they call it as about as bad as it gets.
  • Unsupportive faculty and administration.
  • Administration and Mandatory Lectures
  • 80% Mandatory classes even sometimes around exam time for things like Primary care skills, epidemiology/biostat/Medical law/public health, interprofessional classes, guest lectures etc., no completely dedicated boards studying time, sometimes condescending administration (who we just tend to avoid/ignore) who doesn’t always listen to listen to our problems like the mandatory class policy, curriculum starting from 1st year is very intense from 8-4 or 5 every day, not really allowing for easy adjustment as needed, guest lecturers tend to be great physicians but not the best teachers, OMM courses are tough, with quizzes every week, tough board-style exams, and strict rubrics for practicals, faculty will push for you to take the USMLE but administration will tell you otherwise she to merger
🧾 The Details

Does the student body seem cooperative or competitive?

Does the environment seem supportive for underrepresented minorities?

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

Does the environment seem supportive for married students?

Does the environment seem supportive for students with disabilities?

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

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

How approachable are faculty members?

What are the facilities and clinics like (old/new, well maintained, etc.)?

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

What are rotations like?

How do students from this program do in the Match?

Any other information you want to share?

  • The OMM department is incredible and have done wonders to prepare students for the OMM component of COMLEX. Classes are weighed down by "clinical applications" lectures which, while helpful, are not concepts tested on boards and detract from relevant board study. Student affairs leave much to be desired. Students who submit reports about harassment/stalking received from other students are cross examined as to why they allowed a person who would harass them into their life and told that they should have done more to protect themselves instead of receiving help. Professors are allowed to yell at students during exams with no repercussion and no addressing of incidents by administration.
  • Interviews on going at the moment (Nov. 2020) for a new campus dean. Both candidates seem to have great ideas to get this school headed in the right direction, but it’s been 15 years, I’m not holding my breathe.
  • It’s a great school, but even though it’s been here for 8 years it’s still got some kinks to work out to make it even better. Overall I love it, and made the best out of my experience here. It’s getting harder and harder to get into, and they’re really starting to push for increasing board scores, so they’re pushing for a “changed atmosphere” on campus by making classes pretty much mandatory and interactive, and more clinically based. 2nd year here is no joke, and I mean it’s extremely integrative in systems-based physiology/pathophysiology and clinical skills become a large part of your schedule, so there’s a lot to worry about, but I think that’s the case everywhere. 1st year was an adjustment and got easier, until neuro hit and things got real. Should be interesting how the merger works out, since lots of people entering are pursuing more competitive specialties.