Ohio State University, College of Medicine and Public Health Admission
Ohio State University, College of Medicine and
Public Health Undergraduate Program
Ohio State University, College of Medicine and Public Health Application

The Facts

Ohio State University is a rather large, public institution located in the city of Columbus, Ohio, and has a combined graduate and undergraduate population of over 48,000 students. The university's College of Medicine and Public Health, however, is significantly smaller, and is home to about 850 graduate medical students. The average age of enrollment is around 22, and it is not altogether rare for students to enter the school directly from their undergraduate education. The school is perhaps best known for its strong emphasis on public health, its wonderful research centers, as well as for its curricular flexibility. The school offers not only the basic MD degree, but also a joint degree in the MD/PhD for qualified students who wish to study specific areas of medical science.

Admission to Ohio State University's College of Medicine and Public Health is extremely competitive among the many students who apply; last year, over 3,860 students applied for admission to the school, and approximately 380 of those students were accepted. Eventually however, only about 210 of the admitted students actually enrolled for the coming semester. The admitted students had average MCAT scores of about 11.0 in Biology, 10.9 in Physics, and 10.2 in Verbal, as well as an average undergraduate GPA of about a 3.7. Students are notified of their admissions status on a rolling basis, and are able to take advantage of the school's early application program if they so choose.

The College of Medicine and Public Health has about 2,800 faculty members, all of whom come from very diverse medical and academic backgrounds. The school also boasts a very manageable student to faculty ratio of about a 1:1, and the small classes allow for plenty of discussion and interaction between students and their professors.

Graduates of the school often go on to be accepted to some of the most prestigious residency programs in the nation, and most frequently specialize in the areas of family medicine, general internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery, orthopedic surgery, as well as opthamology.

Clinical Programs

Students are required to complete extensive clinical clerkships including a first-year community project at a retirement community, free clinic, or homeless shelter, a session of patient-centered medicine and physician development, ambulatory care, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery, internal medicine, psychiatry, neurology, as well as pediatrics and various subinternships.

What's Good

"You get a very thorough and rigorous clinical training, so you feel very much ready to enter into your residency."

"We get to have patient contact as early as our first year, which is a rare commodity."

"The professors here are so caring, and will take time out of their busy schedules to talk with you."

What's Bad

"There can be a lot of competition that goes on here. People are always trying to prove themselves to one another."

"There is never enough on campus graduate housing, which can be a real pain in the neck."

"Sometimes I wish that we had more joint degrees available."

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