Did you know that more that 6,500 osteopathic medical school students graduated in 2018, or that there are now more than 114,000 Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (DOs) in the United States?
The American Osteopathic Association (ASA) also reports that approximately 25% of today’s medical students attend a college of osteopathic medicine. At those rates, DOs are on track to account for more than 20% of all practicing physicians by 2030.
Expectations and preparations
Clearly, osteopathic medicine has a bright future. Does your osteopathic medicine program also have a bright future?
Is it equipped to provide the application experience tomorrow’s student will expect? Is your admissions office prepared to achieve its entire range of class-building goals each cycle?
Join Liaison at this year’s upcoming ASA Osteopathic Medical Education Conference (“OMED19”) in Baltimore, October 25-28, to share your thoughts about those questions and gain insights from others who are already embracing the new strategies and technologies required in order to recruit and admit the best possible osteopathic students year after year.
Liaison’s AACOMASTM (American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine Application ServiceTM) is the centralized online application service for U.S. osteopathic medical schools.
A better pathway to osteopathic medical school
AACOMAS simplifies the process of applying to osteopathic medical schools. Students can select all the programs they wish to apply to, then submit one application that includes all necessary materials. AACOMAS verifies applications for accuracy and provides your admissions office with digital versions of all the admissions materials required from applicants.
As a cloud-based service, AACOMAS helps reduce time spent processing paper-based applications, streamlines admissions office workflows, saves you money and increases your program’s exposure to a wider, more diverse applicant pool — at no cost to participating institutions.
Today, more than 31,000 programs on over 1,000 campuses use a CAS. Over the years, Liaison has partnered with more than 30 professional associations to create over 40 discipline-specific iterations of the CAS, enabling those associations to better support their members better by promoting best practices and the adoption of a transformative tool in the admissions process.
Liaison will be at OMED19, so please visit us for a one-on-one conversation about how we can help your osteopathic medicine program identify and overcome its most important challenges.
OMED19 takes in Baltimore, MD October 25-28. You can learn more about it here.