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Steeped in the osteopathic tradition and based on the most current scientific research, your education at CCOM provides the skills you need for success. Founded in 1900, CCOM's longstanding reputation for excellence ensures that our clinical partners welcome you into outstanding rotations, internships, and residencies. What's more, our caring faculty are committed to teaching and mentoring the next generation of healthcare professionals. As a student, you'll gain the preparation and education needed to build your future and join other CCOM alumni with outstanding national board pass rates and residency placements..
Program
Doctoral
Location
Downers Grove, IL
Duration
4 Years, Full-Time
Class Size
205
Graduation Rate
94%
The CCOM course of study is typically 4 academic years. The first 2 years cover primarily didactic instruction, followed by 2 years of primarily clinical rotations, including applicable didactic material. Upon graduation with the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree, CCOM graduates are eligible for postdoctoral residency training in all fields of medicine.
As scientists and practitioners of the healing arts, osteopathic physicians subscribe to a philosophy that regards the body as an integrated whole with structure and function working interdependently. As an extension of this philosophy, osteopathic physicians treat their patients as unique persons with biological, psychological, and sociological needs, an approach that underscores the osteopathic commitment to patient-oriented versus disease-oriented health care.
CCOM proactively modifies its curriculum to meet the needs of the practice of osteopathic medicine in the 21st century. To that end, the curriculum is being progressively enhanced with increasing alignment and integration of basic science and clinical sciences material. CCOM courses maintain rigorous standards by introducing the course material with interactive presentation methods in the manner that osteopathic physicians approach the patient in the clinical setting.
To learn more about our current school year curriculum, please review our programmatic level objectives and course descriptions for the 2019/2020 school year.
To produce competent osteopathic physicians, CCOM's program emphasizes primary care but includes traditional specialties and subspecialties. Because the DO degree signifies the holder is a physician prepared for entry into the practice of medicine within postgraduate training programs, CCOM graduates must have the knowledge and skills to function in a broad variety of clinical situations and to render a wide spectrum of patient care, including direct hands-on analysis and treatment.
Accordingly and with reasonable accommodation, all candidates for admission to the CCOM program must have abilities and skills in five areas: 1) observation; 2) communication; 3) motor; 4) conceptual, integrative, and quantitative; and 5) behavioral and social. Technological compensation can be made for some limitation in certain of these areas, but a candidate should be able to perform in a reasonably independent manner.
The Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine (CCOM) is accredited by the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA). COCA is recognized as the accrediting agency for colleges of osteopathic medicine by the United States Office of Education and the Council of Postsecondary Accreditation (COPA). CCOM is currently accredited through 2023.
For further information, please contact the American Osteopathic Association, 142 E. Ontario St., Chicago, IL 60611, or 1-800-621-1773. The website can be accessed at aoacoca.org
Midwestern University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission/A Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (HLC/NCA), 230 South LaSalle Street, Suite 7-500, Chicago, IL 60604-1413.
Primary care, surgery, emergency medicine, pediatrics, anesthesiology, plus other medical specialties and options in hospitals, medical schools, private practices, and government facilities
Median Salaries in the Midwest (varies by specialty) - Source: MGMA 2017 Provider Compensation and Production Report: Based on 2016 Survey Data
Students seeking admission to CCOM must submit the following documented evidence:
Students seeking admission to CCOM must provide:
The Technical Standards set forth the nonacademic abilities considered essential for students to achieve the level of competence required by the faculty to obtain the academic degree awarded by the College.
The following abilities and expectations must be met by all students admitted to the College with reasonable accommodation. Candidates must have abilities and skills in five areas: 1) observation; 2) communication; 3) motor; 4) intellectual, conceptual, integrative, and quantitative; and 5) behavioral and social. Technological compensation can be made for some limitation in certain of these areas, but candidates should be able to perform in a reasonably independent manner.
1. Observation: The candidate must be able to accurately make observations at a distance and close at hand, including those on a computer screen or electronic device. Observation necessitates the functional use of vision and sense of touch and is enhanced by the functional use of all of the other senses. [The candidate must be able to accurately auscultate lung/breath, heart and bowel sounds to complete the curricular requirement to individually complete physical examination of a patient/client]
2. Communication: The candidate must be able to communicate in English, proficiently and sensitively, in verbal and written form, and be able to perceive nonverbal communication.
3. Motor: Candidates must be able to coordinate both gross and fine motor movements, maintain equilibrium and have functional use of the senses of touch and vision. The candidate must possess sufficient postural control, neuromuscular control and eye-to-hand coordination to perform profession-specific skills and tasks. Candidates must be able to lift 20 lbs.
4. Intellectual, Conceptual, Integrative and Quantitative Abilities: The candidate must be able to problem-solve, measure, calculate, reason, analyze, record and synthesize large amounts of information in a timely manner. The candidate must be able to comprehend three-dimensional relationships and understand spatial relationships.
5. Behavioral and Social Attributes: The candidate must possess the emotional health required for full utilization of his/her intellectual abilities, the exercise of good judgment, the consistent, prompt completion of all responsibilities, and the development of mature, sensitive and effective relationships. Candidate must be able to tolerate physically, mentally and emotionally taxing workloads and to function effectively under stress. The candidate must be able to adapt to changing environments, to display flexibility, and to learn to function in the face of uncertainties. Compassion, integrity, concern for others, effective interpersonal skills, willingness and ability to function as an effective team player, interest and motivation to learn are all personal qualities required during the educational process. The candidate must agree to participate in touching/palpating on the skin and being touched/palpated on the skin by individuals regardless of gender in all academic settings, including osteopathic manipulative techniques. These activities will take place in large and small group settings as directed in the College’s curricular requirements.
Candidates are required to verify that they understand and are able to meet these Technical Standards at least 4 weeks prior to matriculation (or if admitted later, within 1 week of deposit). Candidates who may only meet Technical Standards with accommodation must contact the Disability Services Office to make a formal request for accommodation. The Disability Committee, in consultation with the College Dean/Program Director, will determine what reasonable accommodations can be provided. The College is not able to grant accommodations that alter the educational standards of the curriculum.
Students must meet the Technical Standards for the duration of enrollment at the College. After matriculation, if a student fails to continue to meet the Technical Standards during subsequent enrollment, the student may apply for accommodation by contacting the Disability Services Office. If the accommodation needed to meet the Technical Standards alters the educational standards of the curriculum, the student’s ability to satisfactorily progress in the curriculum will be evaluated by the appropriate College’s Student Graduation and Promotion Committee.
If you need accommodations, you must contact the Disability Services Office to make a formal request within 2 weeks of signing this document or the acceptance will be withdrawn. For Downers Grove candidates, the contact person for Disability Services is Dr. Carrie Torgerson, Associate Dean of Students and Disability Services Coordinator, ctorge@midwestern.edu or 630-515-7142
Prerequisite Courses |
Sem Hrs |
Qtr Hrs |
Biology with lab |
8 |
12 |
General Chemistry with lab |
8 |
12 |
Organic Chemistry with lab |
8 |
12 |
Physics with lab |
8 |
12 |
English Composition |
6 |
9 |
Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry are recommended courses that may contribute to success in medical school.
LEVEL 1 |
CCOM |
NATIONAL |
2019 | 96.0% /564 | 93.0% / 526 |
2018 | 98.5% / 580 | 96.0% / 558 |
2017 | 98.0% / 550 | 92.7% / 520 |
2016 | 97.9% / 547 | 92.3% / 515 |
LEVEL 2CE |
CCOM |
NATIONAL |
2019 | 97.0% / 589 | 95.6% / 569 |
2018 | 95.4% / 594 | 92.8% / 550 |
2017 | 94.9% / 577 | 93.2% / 543 |
2016 | 97.5% / 580 | 92.2% / 537 |
LEVEL 2PE |
CCOM |
NATIONAL |
2019 | 96.0% | 93.2% |
2018 | 92.5% | 93.2% |
2017 | 97.5% | 92.9% |
2016 | 98.0% | 93.0% |
LEVEL 3 |
CCOM |
NATIONAL |
2018 | 98.1% / 605 | 95.4% / 561 |
2017 | 99.1% / 601 | 96.7% / 570 |
2016 | 98.9% / 599 | 96.5% / 560 |
2015 | 97.4% / 582 | 96.4% / 558 |
Prepared by the MWU Office of Institutional Research and Educational Assessment.
IN 2018, THERE WERE 204 STUDENTS WHO ENTERED THE MATCH AND 204 WHO WERE OFFERED POSITIONS. ALL STUDENTS MATCHED.
Graduation Year | Number of Graduating Students Entering the Match | Number of Students Offered a Position | Number of Student Attempting to Match Who Were Not Placed in GME |
2018 | 204 | 204 | 0 |
2017 | 198 | 198 | 0 |
2016 | 198 | 198 | 0 |
2015 | 204 | 204 | 0 |
2014 | 187 | 187 | 0 |
2018 Match by Specialty
COMPLETION OF A PROGRAM OF STUDY AT MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY DOES NOT GUARANTEE PLACEMENT IN A RESIDENCY PROGRAM OR FUTURE EMPLOYMENT, LICENSURE OR CREDENTIALING.
Primary care, surgery, emergency medicine, pediatrics, anesthesiology, plus other medical specialties and options in hospitals, medical schools, private practices, and government facilities
MEDIAN SALARIES IN THE MIDWEST (VARIES BY SPECIALTY) -SOURCE: MGMA 2017 PROVIDER COMPENSATION AND PRODUCTION REPORT: BASED ON 2016 SURVEY DATA
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