As we alluded to Tuesday on the prehealth listserv , the AACOMAS application is expected to be launched today at 9:30 a.m. Please click on the link above.
Please see note below regarding submitting a comprehensive and error free application. Typically once these applications are submitted online, they cannot be “pulled back”. If there are any mechanisms to retrieve a 2009 application, this could result in significant processing delays that can impact admissions’ decisions.
There is a Prehealth Mixer THIS WEEKEND!! There will be pizza, games and a chance to meet students from other prehealth clubs! THIS Saturday, April 5th from 12-4pm in the Hadley Community Building.
The next AED meeting will take place in 145C Student Union on Wednesday, April 9th at 5pm. We will be hosting Dr. Myers as our guest speaker to discuss D.O. medicine and education. Also, we will be holding elections for next year’s officers.
AED is volunteering at St. Vincent DePaul Soup Kitchen on Saturday, April 12th. We will be meeting in front of Starbucks in UB Commons at 8:45 to carpool and we will be done around 12:30pm. If you are interested in going, please e-mail me and let me know. For more information about this click on the link provided above.
We will be selling AED Sweatshirts for $22 at the meeting, but if you can’t make it and would still like a sweatshirt, please contact Manu at rgp4@buffalo.edu.
Katie Brewer
AED President 2007-08
Applications to U.S. colleges of osteopathic medicine (COMs) have already reached record highs again this year, with many applications yet to be received before the mid-April deadline. The application numbers reflect a six-year period during which several new osteopathic medical schools have been built and thousands of additional potential medical students have applied to enter one of the fastest-growing health care sectors.
Some 11,650 individuals are hoping to fill one of the 4,462 total fall 2008 seats available at the nation’s 25 COMs and their branch campuses, compared with last year’s record-setting 11,459. The growth represents an increase of more than 4 percent over this point in the application cycle last year.
from Inside OME, March 7, 2008
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Summer Research Fellows will work for 8 weeks in an active research laboratory under the guidance of a Biomedical Science faculty member at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. The program will run from June 16 through July 28, 2008. Participants will be provided with room and board, $1750 for living expenses and 8 quarter hours of biology credit with a tuition waiver from Ohio University. Students who are eligible to apply to medical school will have the opportunity during the summer to interview for admission to OU-COM. Additional information and application materials can be found be clicking on the link.
The application is due by February 1. Letters of recommendation and transcripts must be postmarked by March 1 in order for a file to be considered complete.
On Campus Day - Learn About Osteopathic Medicine Saturday, October 27 from 10:00-2:00 p.m.
They offer: a tour of the facility, gross anatomy lab presentations, osteopathic manipulative presentations, microbiology lab presentations, an overview of the DO program and trolley tour of the City of Erie, PA. LECOM is approx 90 miles south of Buffalo within the state of PA.
At its meeting last weekend, the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA) granted initial provisional accreditation to Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine, Yakima, WA and Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Parker, CO.
Both colleges plan to begin instruction in late summer/fall 2008.
Information about each of these colleges is available on their college www sites:
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences COM
Rocky Vista University COM
Each of these new colleges is in the process of joining AACOM. Once that process is completed these colleges will be added to the AACOMAS www site for designation for applications. Until then, applicants who want to initiate an application can complete the AACOMAS application through the point of submission and payment and have their application saved for submission once the new colleges are added for designation. Applicants who have already completed and submitted their applications will be able to add designations for the new colleges. Once the new colleges are available for designation AACOMAS will notify all applicants in the AACOMAS system of the availability of the new colleges for designation.
Osteopathic (DO) Medical Applications
Just a reminder that the central application service - AACOMAS - for applying to US osteopathic medicine schools (DO) is scheduled to open TODAY, June 4, 2007. As of 8:50 a.m. today, the site was not yet live.
Allopathic (MD) Medical School Applications
Tomorrow, June 5 is the first day that AMCAS reported that they will begin accepting applications for US MD schools. I will forward any updates on the Bulletin.
Please note that the following message will go out to all AACOMAS applicants overnight.
AACOMAS advises all applicants and prospective applicants in the AACOMAS system that the application deadline for Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine New York has been changed to 11:59 pm, Monday, April 30, 2007.
Although TouroCOM had planned to accept applications through the end of May, the college has concluded that because of the number and quality of applications already received, it would be unfair to new applicants if the college continued to accept their applications beyond the end of April.
Associate Director of Application Services
American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
5550 Friendship Blvd., Suite 310
Chevy Chase, MD 20815-7231
http://www.aacom.org
You are invited to the University of Medicine and Dentistry at New Jersey - School of Osteopathic Medicine Annual Open House THIS Friday, April 27 from 12:00-4:30 at the UMDNJ-SOM Academic Center. You can register here.
UMDNJ-SOM Academic Center, One Medical Center Drive, Stratford, NJ 08084-1501.
Phone: 856-566-7050; Fax: 856-566-6895
New College of Osteopathic Medicine Breaks Ground
The March 23 groundbreaking of Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine was covered by a variety of Colorado news outlets. The new COM, to be located in a Denver suburb, will be the first for-profit medical school in the United States since early in the 20th century. It is scheduled to admit its first class in fall 2008, subject to accreditation approval by the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation.
… Rocky Vista, Colorado’s second medical school and its first osteopathic medical college, will help ease the state’s physician shortage, particularly in its rural counties. The college “will focus on educating primary-care providers for rural, underrepresented, at-risk and underserved populations,” said Ronnie B. Martin, DO, chief academic officer and dean of the new school.
