News in Brief Med schools with the highest first-choice residency placements: 3 DO schools in top 10 U.S. News & World Report lays out the 10 medical schools with the highest first-choice residency placement rates in 2016. Three DO schools made the list. Nov. 13, 2017Monday The DO Staff Contact The DO Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Nearly every fourth-year medical student dreams of matching into their first-choice residency program and specialty. This may be more likely to happen at certain medical schools, according to U.S. News & World Report, which recently published a list of the top 10 U.S. medical schools with the highest first-choice residency placements. The list includes three osteopathic medical schools. The highest reported first-choice residency placement rate for an osteopathic school was Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, which has campuses in Virginia, South Carolina and Alabama, and reported a first-choice residency placement rate of 87.4% of students. West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine and University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in Maine both had more than 60% of their students match into their first-choice programs as well. Here’s the full top 10 list with each medical school’s first-choice residency placement rate: School 2016 graduates admitted to their first-choice residency 2016 graduates who applied for a residency Percent admitted to their first choice Case Western Reserve University 188 193 97.4% Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine—Virginia, Carolinas & Auburn 291 333 87.4% University of Connecticut 63 80 78.8% University of California—San Diego 95 131 72.5% Mayo Clinic School of Medicine 47 68 69.1% Stanford University 51 79 64.6% Texas A&M Health Science Center 124 193 64.2% Columbia University 102 162 63% West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine 113 184 61.4% University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine 71 118 60.2% Note: U.S. News assembled this list by surveying its 170 ranked medical schools; only 26 schools provided first-choice residency placement data, and the list above is the top 10 of those 26 schools. To learn more, view the full U.S. News list. More U.S. News rankings Earlier this year, The DO reported on the eight osteopathic medical schools that landed on U.S. News’ lists of the best medical schools. You can find more analysis on how these schools are innovating in the areas in which they ranked here. More in Training 6 states in 12 months: A guide to life on the road during fourth year Fourth year is what you make it. Rachel Pray, OMS IV, shares how she embraced travel and adventure as much as possible during her fourth year. Being a DO in a heavily MD residency program: What surprised me I was incredibly nervous to join a large MD-dominant internal medicine residency, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much my osteopathic training helped me excel. Previous articleAlzheimer’s disease CME focuses on intervention before onset of symptoms Next articleIn Denver, a DO saves a man's life during lunch
6 states in 12 months: A guide to life on the road during fourth year Fourth year is what you make it. Rachel Pray, OMS IV, shares how she embraced travel and adventure as much as possible during her fourth year.
Being a DO in a heavily MD residency program: What surprised me I was incredibly nervous to join a large MD-dominant internal medicine residency, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much my osteopathic training helped me excel.