Background: My only interview is to BCOM. Interviewing mid-October. Submitted 14 DO secondaries by mid-August, most of them in July. I have 3 DO secondaries left to write but have pushed off till now. 2 rejections and 1 pre-interview wait-list.
BCOM's first class graduates this Spring. The 3rd years just found out COMLEX 1 pass rate was 82%. This is a 3% drop from the current 4th years on COMLEX 1 who got 85%. If I'm not mistaken, the 4th years should be getting back their COMLEX Level 2 - CE scores soon and should've taken COMLEX Level 2 - PE a while ago.
I am very nervous about attending this school. I really need some guidance on what to do from here. What do I do if I don't receive another II? Their deposit is $3,000. If admitted, the deposit is due within 30 days.
From an email received today by Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine:
"Our new SpartanPA Medicine Program, among the first in the nation to synergize the education of PA and DO students, will drive inter-professional education.
Michigan State University has long wanted a Physician Assistant (PA) master’s degree program to expand its capacity to provide inter-professional education among our health sciences colleges, and to further its land-grant mission of improving the health and well-being of Michigan, the nation and beyond. The question was, who could successfully implement this goal?
Ultimately, the university turned to the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine to take the lead and see this vision through. It has been a very long journey spanning half a decade, but today we are proud to announce that the college’s PA Medicine Program has received Accreditation-Provisional status from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA). ARC-PA has strict requirements for public announcements regarding the establishment of any new PA program prior to being granted accreditation, designed to protect the interests of potential PA program applicants who are considering which programs to apply to. Thus, our public communications about the program up until now have been limited.
In my many meetings with our college’s DO faculty and alumni, most have acknowledged that they already work with and/or employ PAs in a number of clinical settings, and the strength of that partnership has resulted in improved health outcomes for the patients they care for. They readily share that without the exceptional support provided by PAs, their practices could not survive the balancing act that is today’s health care system.
Currently the PA profes
I’ve never seen a page that active in my lifetime, as I’ve edited Wikipedia for years. It’s like a flock of hyena editors have marked that page on top of their watch list. It can get almost everyone salty. Try editing one line, and you’ll see some scholar undoing or writing paragraphs about why that sh-t isn’t good.
I was the editor who made various edits to showcase a proper image of DOs, but I got in a recent controversy with one of the editors. It used to be
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO or D.O.) is a medical degree offered by medical schools in the United States.
Some mafcker said, “that sounds vague and misleading (how?)” and BLA BLA and changed it to
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO or D.O.) is a medical degree conferred by osteopathic medical schools in the United States.
I just said that remove the Osteopathic from it because laypeople will think it’s different medical school than medical schools that teach Western medicine, which is false.
See the talk page for more of this drama.
I’ve been banned from editing Wiki from now, but I just request whoever else to keep an eye on the page. I was taught in college that Wikipedia isn’t a reliable source, but I’ve traveled around the world and figured it’s the most popular one. When people Google our degree, that’s almost the first result they see. Become good at editing it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Osteopathic_Medicine
Proposed is the Virtua Health College of Medicine & Health Sciences of Rowan University. The new college will include an osteopathic medical school; an expanded nursing and allied health professions school; a new school of translational biomedical engineering and sciences; and multiple new research institutes. I’m finally happy to see DO programs moving towards research focused initiatives (kinda saw it coming with the 2020 DO-MD merge). Recently, the University of Northern Colorado also took the initiative to open a medical school with the DO program; this is another big movement to establishing more research-focused DO programs.
https://www-nj-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nj.com/news/2022/01/rowan-university-gets-85m-from-virtua-health-for-new-medical-school.html?outputType=amp
