Annual Survey on Osteopathic Medical Education

Specified employees at osteopathic schools should fill out the survey, which consists of a series of Excel Files.

This survey collects institutional data about the member schools at the start of each academic year. There are seven major sections to the survey covering:

1. applicants, students & graduates
2. faculty
3. curriculum
4. financial aid
5. revenues and expenditures
6. contract & grant activity, and
7. clinical facilities.

The survey results are published by AACOM in the Annual Report on Osteopathic Medical Education. Since 1995, AACOM and the AOA have collaborated on this survey; AACOM uses the results to prepare its annual report and AOA uses the data for accreditation reviews.

View the report that comes from this data.

Annual Survey on Debt, Career Plans, and Opinions of Osteopathic Medical Students
An annual survey designed to collect data on the important issues of:

1. student debt
2. specialty choice
3. expected income
4. location preferences of osteopathic freshmen and seniors
5. how seniors felt about the training they received at their schools.

Aggregate results are published in the report, and individual school results — which contain the seniors' evaluation of the curriculum as well as their comments and suggestions for improvements— are distributed to the schools for their information and review.

View the report that comes from this data.

AACOMAS Applicant data
AACOM's centralized application service (AACOMAS) collects comprehensive data on almost all osteopathic medical school applicants. All information from the AACOMAS application form is captured and entered into the AACOMAS Masterfile for the academic year. This provides complete demographic information on each applicant including undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools attended, courses taken and grades, military and employment history, MCAT and GPA scores, and a record of the osteopathic medical schools applied to. When the schools accept an applicant, and when an applicant matriculates, AACOM is notified and enters this information into the applicant's Masterfile record.

View the AACOMAS Update, with graphs and tables of the annnual data.

Applicant data is also used in the Annual Report on Osteopathic Medical Ed.

Tuition Survey
Tuition data are collected in the spring for the next academic year for the D.O. program and all allied health programs offered by the schools.

Make a request for information if you would like to know more about the Allied Health Programs.

View the Annual Report on Osteopathic Medical Education for the results of this survey.

Graduate Medical Education Data

1. Osteopathic Training Institutions
   A survey was initiated for the 1996-97 academic year to collect data on all D.O. interns and residents training in institutions sponsoring osteopathic graduate medical education programs. Survey forms are mailed in August/September to the Directors of Medical Education (DMEs) at the institutions identified in the AOA Yearbook and Directory. The DMEs are requested to collect the data from each training program at the institution and return the forms to AACOM where they are added to the data base. Starting in 1997, this survey was conducted with the cooperation and collaboration of the Association of Osteopathic Directors of Medical Education (AODME).
2. Allopathic Training Institutions
   To obtain a complete picture of D.O.s in graduate training programs, information is needed on D.O.s training in allopathic residency programs. For the past several years the AMA has provided these data which it collects on its annual survey of all allopathic residency programs.

View the Annual Report on Osteopathic Medical Education for the results of this survey.

AOA / AACOM Osteopathic Medical Education Study

Jointly sponsored by the AOA/AACOM, This report is the result of an extensive study of osteopathic medical education.

View the Report