OSU 2010 grads led osteopathic medical school pass rate for COMLEX Level 2 PE
Thursday, March 24, 2011
OSU-COM medical students take Level 2 of national board examinations in the fourth year of medical school. Every osteopathic medical student must pass the examination in order to graduate from medical school.
“The school’s top scores are the result of a concerted effort by faculty and staff in Clinical Education and a significant investment in personnel, hardware and software for training,” said Joan Stewart, D.O., M.P.H., associate dean for clinical education.
Students are well prepared by the OSU team. They begin to train for the exam in the third year of medical school, with scripted encounters or office visits with trained patient-models, and evaluations of those encounters by physicians and educators.
Emily Lim, performance evaluation coordinator, oversees the program and use of Education Management Solutions (EMS) software, which times and records the student videos. She also recruits patient-models from the community, helps train them in a variety of patient scenarios for practice encounters with students, and coordinates the center’s operations.
Dr. Stewart said plans call for increasing the number of standardized patient encounters beginning as early as the first year of medical school.