University of Oklahoma, College of Medicine Admission
University of Oklahoma, College of Medicine Undergraduate Program
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The Facts

The University of Oklahoma is a rather large, public institution located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and has a combined graduate and undergraduate population of over 24,000 students. The university's College of Medicine, however, is significantly smaller, and is home to about 575 graduate medical students. The average age of enrollment is around 23, and it is fairly rare for any of the students to enter the school directly from their undergraduate education. The school is perhaps best known for its focus on community-based medical instruction, as well as for its emphasis on public health. Aside from the basic MD degree, the school offers joint degrees in the MD/MPH, and the MD/PhD in any graduate department, medical or non-medical.

Admission to the University of Oklahoma's College of Medicine is extremely competitive among the relatively few students who apply; last year, over 880 students applied for admission to the school, and approximately 200 of those students were accepted. Eventually however, only about 150 of the admitted students actually enrolled for the coming semester. The admitted students had average MCAT scores of about 9.8 in Biology, 9.1 in Physics, and 9.7 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 there is currently no early application program in place.

The university's College of Medicine has about 688 graduate medical students, all of whom come from relatively diverse medical and academic backgrounds. The school also boasts a very manageable student to faculty ratio of about 1:1, and the small classes allow for plenty of discussion and interaction between students and their professors.

Graduates of the College of Medicine often go on to be accepted to some of the nation's most prestigious and competitive residency programs, and most frequently specialize in the areas of community health care, public health, family medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, neurology, as well as ob/gyn.

Clinical Programs

Students are required to complete extensive clinical training including 8 weeks of medicine, 8 weeks of surgery, 6 weeks of ob/gyn, 6 weeks of psychiatry, 6 weeks of pediatrics, 4 weeks of family medicine, 6 weeks of specialty selectives, 28 weeks of clinical electives, 2 weeks of neuroscience, 4 weeks of adult ambulatory medicine, as well as 4 weeks of a rural preceptorship. Students complete their clinical clerkships at affiliated facilities including the OU Medical Center, the Department of Veterans' Affairs Medical Center, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, the Oklahoma City Clinic, the Oklahoma Allergy Clinic, the Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, the Oklahoma Blood Institute, the State Medical Examiner's Office, the Department of Mental Health, as well as the Baptist Medical Center.

What's Good

"The clinical training programs are absolutely amazing, and you get a really rich variety of areas."

"The faculty here obviously loves what they do, and they pass on that enthusiasm."

"Students are actually very supportive here, which is a nice change of pace for me."

What's Bad

"The administration could be a bit more attentive to the individual needs of students."

"There is never enough on campus graduate housing available."

"There are some basic science classes that are all review and nothing new."

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