Annual OldPreMeds and OldMeds National Conference Welcome

13th Annual OldPreMeds and
OldMeds National Conference
Welcome
On behalf of the National Society of Nontraditional Premedical and
Medical Students, I would like to welcome our speakers, exhibitors, and
participants to the 13th Annual OldPreMeds and OldMeds National
Conference. Whether a new member attending for the first time, or a
returning member back again, this year’s program will inspire,
invigorate, and inform nontraditional students on their path to become
physicians. Military Medicine is a focus of this year’s event. But, as
always, there will be indepth presentations for all students on the process
of preparing, applying, and succeeding in post-baccalaureate programs,
medical school, and beyond into medical residency
Many opportunities will be available to interact with members, speakers,
and exhibitors. OPM encourages you to ask questions at presentations;
have discussions at the meeting tables; meet representatives of the many
schools, programs, associations, and test prep companies; join other
members for lunch and networking dinners on Friday evening; and buy
a raffle for a chance to win a Lenovo Tablet Computer, professional
admissions consulting, or an OldPreMeds goodie bag. And don’t forget
to continue the discussions online in our community forums at
www.OldPreMeds.org
Richard Solomon Levy
Executive Director
PLEASE NOTE PLEASE NOTE PLEASE NOTE
While OldPreMeds encourages participants to take pictures and videos of the
conference, no continuous audio or video recording of formal presentations can be
made nor posted without express consent of the speakers and OldPreMeds. We
encourage you to use the “feedback booth” and to share your own informal videos.
National Society of Nontraditional
Premedical and Medical Students
Executive Advisory Council
Geoff Aumaugher
Denise Babin, MD
Judy Colwell, MA
Tara Cook, MD
David W. Kelley, DO
Gabe Lerman, DO
Jeff Petersen
Mary Renard, MD
Linda Wilson, DO
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Thursday 6 June (Evening)
Meet 'N' Greet & Exhibitor Session #1
5:30pm~9:30pm
Informal Icebreaker
Appetizers & Cash Bar
Friday 7 June (Morning)
8:00am
Continental Breakfast
8:15am~8:30am
Welcome to “Lucky” 13th Conference
Opening Comments
Raffle Introduction
How This All Works
Networking Dinners
"Terminology for the New OldPreMed"
8:30am~9:30am
Richard S. Levy MA
Executive Director,
National Society for Nontraditional
Premedical and Medical Students
Break Raffle Ticket Sales
Grand Prize Lenovo Tablet PC
9:30am~9:45am
With thanks to Janette Martin/LMU-DeBusk
"The Nuts and Bolts of Applying to Medical
School as a Nontraditional Applicant"
9:45am~10:45am
Judy Colwell, MA
Former Assistant Director of Admissions
Stanford University, School of Medicine
10:45am~11:00am
Break Raffle Ticket Sales
Win Admissions Consulting
With thanks to Judy Colwell
11:00am~12:00pm
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
John E. Prescott, MD
Chief Academic Officer, AAMC
Former Dean, West Virginia Univ. School of Medicine
12:00pm~2:00pm
Lunch & Exhibitor Session #2
Pizza Lunch provided in Exhibition Hall
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Friday, 7 June (Afternoon)
2:00pm~3:15pm
Discussion Panel: Admissions Directors &
The Application Decision Process
Charles E. Campbell
Jeannette Martin
Diane McQuail
Paul T. White
Georgetown University
Lincoln Memorial Univ.
George Washington Univ.
Johns Hopkins University
3:15pm~3:30pm
Break Raffle Ticket Sales
Win Daypack w/Princeton Review Guides
3:30pm~4:30pm
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Lt. Colonel Lee Burnett, DO
Brigade Surgeon, 82nd Airborne Division, US Army
Cofounder & Executive Director of SDN
4:30pm~4:40pm
Break Raffle Ticket Sales
Grand Prize Lenovo Tablet PC
With thanks to Janette Martin/LMU-DeBusk
4:40pm~5:30pm
Captain Ryan L. Gray, MD
Chief, Aerospace Medicine, 66th Medical Squadron,
Hanscom Air Force Base
Publisher, MedicalSchoolHQ.net
5:30pm~5:45pm
Closing Comments
Networking Dinner Plans
6:30pm
Networking Dinners
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Saturday, 8 June (Morning)
8:00am
Continental Breakfast
8:15am~8:30am
Welcome to “Lucky” 13th - Day 2
Opening Comments
Todd Nelson, MD
8:30am~9:30am
Family Medicine Resident/PGY-3
Waukesha Memorial Hospital
9:30am~9:45am
Break Raffle Ticket Sales
Win Daypack w/Princeton Review Guides
9:45am~10:45am
Major Michael B. Moore, DO
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences
Former Airborne Infantryman, Aviator & PA
10:45am~11:00am
Break Raffle Ticket Sales
Win Admissions Consulting
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"Writing a Winning Personal Statement:
The Nontraditional Students' Guide"
Liza Thompson M.Ed.
Former Director
Johns Hopkins and Goucher
Post-Baccalaureate Premed Program
12:00pm~2:00pm
Lunch & Exhibitor Session #3
Sandwiches & Wraps in Exhibition Hall
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Saturday, 8 June (Afternoon)
2:00pm~2:50pm
Ensign Michael “Mitch” Eliason, MS-III
USUHS Class President & Battalion Commander
Former Naval Academy faculty and
nuclear submarine officer
2:50pm~3:00pm
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Recognitions, Awards, & Raffle Call
Gabriel S. Lerman and Richard Levy
3:50pm~4:00pm
Break
4:00pm~5:15pm
Panel Discussion:
Medical School with a Family
Geoff Aumaugher
David W. Kelly, DO
Gabriel S. Lerman, DO
Mike B. Moore, DO
Mary R. Renard, MD
Carrie Oldham Robey
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Keynote Speakers
John E. Prescott, MD
As Chief Academic Officer, John E. Prescott, MD, oversees AAMC efforts
designed to prepare and assist deans, faculty leaders, and future physicians for the
challenges of 21st century academic medicine. He leads a staff that addresses
critical medical school data; administrative and operational issues; explores new
models of successful mission alignment; focuses on key faculty issues and
leadership development; and supports medical school accreditation activities. Dr.
Prescott also leads activities supporting the Council of Deans, the Organization of
Student Representatives, the Group on Student Affairs, the Group on Faculty
Affairs, the Group on Business Affairs, the Group on Institutional Planning, and
the Liaison Council on Medical Education. Prior to joining the AAMC in 2008,
Dr. Prescott served as dean of the West Virginia University (WVU) School of
Medicine for four years. He also has served as president and CEO of University
Health Associates, WVU integrated multi-specialty faculty practice plan; founding
chair of WVU Department of Emergency Medicine, and as the first director of the
WVU Center for Rural Emergency Medicine. Before WVU, he was a military
physician in the Army for eight years. Dr. Prescott earned his medical and his
bachelor’s degrees from Georgetown University.
Lt. Colonel Lee Burnett, DO
Lee Burnett, DO, is a board-certified family medicine physician currently serving
with the 82nd Airborne Division of the US Army. He is founder and volunteer
director of the Student Doctor Network http://studentdoctor.net/. A California
native, he graduated from the University of California, Davis in 1993 and
graduated from Western University of Health Sciences in 1997. After a one-year
osteopathic internship at Downey Regional Medical Center, he went on to
complete his family medicine residency at the University of California, Irvine in
2000. During his time in medical school, he founded the Student Doctor Network
website. He joined the Army Reserve in 1997 during his internship. Following
graduation from residency, he served for one year as Director of Medical
Education at Downey Regional Medical Center and joined as a partner at Oso
Family Medical Group in Orange County, CA. He was activated with the Army
Reserve in 2003, 2005, and 2008. In 2009, he chose to sell his practice and go full
time with the Army Reserve in 2009 and transitioned to the regular Army in 2011.
He deployed with 82nd Airborne Division in 2012, where he served as Brigade
Surgeon in the two most violent districts of Afghanistan. He is married and has
two children. In July, he and his family are moving to Kansas for a 10-month
training course in Army operations and management.
Speakers and Panelists
Geoff Aumaugher (OPM screen name: DoctorGeo2008)
Geoff Aumaugher has been an active member of OPM since 2002. He has held
various positions from Treasurer to Chairman of the Board and currently serves
on the Executive Advisory Council. Geoff's desire to become a doctor was
reinvigorated while researching his daughter’s diagnosis of type 1 diabetes.
During his research, he found OPM and was convinced to attend the 2002
Convention in Dallas by "OldManDave,” one of the founding members of the
group. Since then he has been working to complete his degree and medical school
pre-requisites, raising two daughters as a single father, volunteering in the
community, and working a 50+ hour per week job. He is currently in the process
of applying for the 2014 entering class and hopes to become another success story
of the OldPreMeds family.
Charles E. Campbell
Charles Campbell has been Director of Admissions for the Georgetown University
School of Medicine since October of 2012. He has been associated with
Georgetown for more than 4 years serving previously as the Interim Director of
Admissions as well as Assistant Registrar for Student and Faculty Services. Before
entering the academic setting, Mr. Campbell worked for several years at the First
National Bank of Arizona where he was a manager for Broker Development
Training. He also worked as a consultant for Vocus, Inc, where he specialized in
brand development, web site traffic growth, business planning, and sales strategy
development. Mr. Campbell earned his undergraduate degree in 1999 at Rutgers the State University of New Jersey.
Judy Colwell, MA (OPM screen name: Judy Colwell)
Ms. Judy Colwell counsels nontraditional applicants who are interested in what it
takes to become well-qualified candidates for medical school. Formerly Assistant
Director of Medical School Admissions at Stanford University (1990-1999) and an
ongoing part-time premed advisor there, she knows and understands the questions
and uncertainties that premedical students face.
With twenty years of
undergraduate advising experience and ten years of medical school admissions
experience, she has a unique knowledge of the admissions process from the
"inside.” Ms. Colwell has now spent more than ten years creatively and efficiently
blending her experiences to help applicants be successful. Ms. Colwell has also
been a constant contributor to the OldPreMeds forums and is one of our regular
conference speakers. She always donates consultations for the annual conference
raffle and offers sound advice and support on a continual basis, online and in
person. Look for her eyes to be "dancing" at the conference, as she presents a
perennial favorite conference topic on what medical school admissions committees
look for in applicants. This will be the 12th OldPreMeds Conference that Judy has
participated in.
Ensign Michael ‘Mitch’ Eliason, MS-III, MEM
After graduating from the US Naval Academy in 2003 with a degree in mechanical
engineering, Mitch Eliason went through Nuclear Power training commands. He
eventually served as an officer aboard the submarine USS LOS ANGELES (SSN
688) out of Pearl Harbor, HI, for three years, making two Western Pacific
Deployments and earning junior officer of the year award in 2007. He then went
on to serve on the faculty of the US Naval Academy in the Leadership, Ethics, and
Law Department.
He also completed a master’s degree in engineering
management from Old Dominion University. During his two-and-a-half years on
faculty at USNA, he fulfilled the prerequisites requirements (20+ credits)
necessary for application and matriculation into medical school. Resigning his
commission as a Lieutenant (O-3) Line Officer, Mitch was recommissioned as an
Ensign (O-1) in the Medical Corps on the day he started Uniformed Services
University of Health Sciences (USUHS) in August 2010. Since then Mitch has
served as Class President and Battalion Commander in addition to his academic
obligations. He also has several publications and is active in research and
organizational committees at USUHS. During his career, he has earned two Navy
Commendation Medals and four Navy Achievement Medals for Individual Merit.
He is presently finishing his third year of medical school. Mitch is married to
Jenny Eliason, who is currently a stay-at-home mom, and they are blessed with
three children, ages 4, 2 and 1.
Captain Ryan L. Gray, MD (OPM screen name: Doc Gray)
Dr. Ryan Gray, or “Doc Gray” as he is known in the flight medicine clinic, is the
Chief of Aerospace Medicine at Hanscom Air Force Base, MA. He was born and
raised in Los Angeles, CA, until age 13 when his family moved to Tampa, FL.
Quickly realizing he wanted to be a Florida Gator and become a physician, Ryan
graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in Exercise Physiology.
Somewhat a nontraditional student himself, he took three years off and was a
fitness program manager for Boston Sports Clubs. He completed his medical
training at New York Medical College and received the Health Professions
Scholarship Program award from the United States Air Force. As a Flight
Surgeon, Ryan is often approached by young airmen in the Air Force for advice on
how to become a physician, and as a result, in the spring of 2012, Ryan realized
that he wanted to help premedical students more widely and began brainstorming
with his wife, who is also a physician. Together they created
MedicalSchoolHQ.net, a website devoted to providing advice to premedical and
medical students on their journey to becoming physicians. In November 2012, he
launched a podcast specifically for that audience, with weekly interviews featuring
experts ranging from deans of medical schools, admissions committee members,
and current premedical and medical students, all to give the listeners the
information they need. To fulfill his love of flying and everything about airplanes,
Ryan received his private pilot certificate in 2012. His other hobbies include
photography and religiously following Florida Gator football.
Katherine Hedian, OMS-III (OPM screen name: Kate429)
Katherine Adelicia Hedian , RN, CNM, BSN, MSN, graduated from University of
Maryland with a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing. She worked 13 years as an
ICU/Cardiac Surgery nurse and preceptor, while raising three children and
becoming a certified childbirth educator. She then switched career paths to attend
the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing (FSMFN) in Kentucky and
Case Western Reserve University, obtaining her Certificate in Nurse-Midwifery
and a Master's of Science in Nursing (MSN). She was a National Health Service
Corps Scholar and then practiced for two-and-a-half years in rural Tennessee as a
CNM. Returning to Richmond, she spent 10 years working in hospitals, health
departments, free clinics, and teaching nursing before returning to school. She is
currently a third-year medical student at West Virginia School of Osteopathic
Medicine.
David Kelley, DO (OPM screen name: OldManDave)
Dr. David W. Kelley is a founding member of OldPreMeds and served as
Chairman of the Board for the initial 10 years of the organization. He started
OldPreMeds in 1997 as an email listserv with only 6 people; it has now grown to
over 9000 members. After struggling during his initial attempt at college, where
he majored in party and minored in fraternity, he dropped out of school to grow up
and find a direction in life. Dave paid his way through respiratory school as a
bouncer and bartender and spent much of the next decade working with critically
ill children. When Dave expressed interest in becoming a physician to a physician
he worked with, he was told, and you don't have an ice cube's chance in hell.
However, the most assured way to get something done is to tell him it cannot be
done. He worked his ample butt off, earning a degree in neuroscience with magna
cum laude honors from the University of Texas at Dallas. He was then accepted
by the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (now AT Still University) and
was awarded his DO degree in 2003. Dr. Kelley went on to do his residency in
Anesthesiology and fellowship in Critical Care at Dartmouth University. After
completing his training in 2008, he became a staff physician Indiana University
Health Arnett Hospital where he was appointed medical director of Intensive Care
and Respiratory Care, and led multidisciplinary teams that constructed both
sections from scratch. Dr. Kelley currently balances clinical practice with
medical/IT/EMR consulting. He provides anesthesia services in central Illinois,
critical care coverage in Santa Fe, NM and Gulfport, MS, and assists in EMR
adoption support, systems design/integration for ORs and ICUs wherever those
opportunities manifest. He is the principal in two private medical companies,
SOVA Anesthesiology Consulting, LLC and DWKelley Associates, LLC.
Gabriel Lerman, DO, MS (OPM screen name: Gabelerman)
Dr. Gabe Lerman , a member of OPM since 2003, is an internal medicine resident
at the Mercy Catholic Medical Center in Darby, PA. He reached the goal of
becoming a physician in 2011 when he was awarded his Doctor of Osteopathy
degree from University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of
Osteopathic Medicine. After graduating from Rutgers University in 1997 with a
degree in Biotechnology, Gabriel conducted genetic research in the
pharmaceutical industry before moving to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center in New York City. During his tenure at MSKCC, Gabriel conducted
genetic research on Colorectal Cancer, Non-BRCA1/BRCA2 Breast Cancer, and
into the efficacy of radiation and chemotherapy in Prostate Cancer. While at
MSKCC, Gabriel attended graduate school at Fairleigh Dickinson University in
Teaneck, NJ, where he obtained his Master’s of Science degree in Biology.
Janette Martin, M.Ed.
In the summer of 2006, Janette Martin moved to Harrogate, TN, becoming a key
member of the team at Lincoln Memorial University that founded the DeBusk
College of Osteopathic Medicine. She has worked at LMU-DCOM since its
inception and now is its Director of Admissions. Prior to her career at DCOM,
she worked in social services for over 30 years in Wichita, KS, first managing a
reintegration facility for juvenile offenders for 15 years followed by 15 years
working with children and adults with developmental disabilities. Janette received
her undergraduate degree in Human Resource Management from Friends
University in Wichita and her master’s in education with a counseling
concentration from LMU in December 2010. She has been a volunteer in many
areas: a conservator through the Kansas Guardianship Program; volunteering
with the Teen Heartline, a suicide prevention service for young people; and
countless hours of volunteer service with the Special Olympics.
Diane McQuail, MS
Diane McQuail has been involved with admissions at George Washington
University School of Medicine (GWU-SOM) throughout her professional life. She
earned a bachelor's degree in Psychology and a master’s concentrating in
psychology and women's studies from GWU as well. During her career, she has
had a strong interest in both women and nontraditional students in medicine. She
is a member of the Consortium of Medical Schools and Women's Colleges. One of
Diane's proudest achievements is the instrumental role she played at GUW-SOM
in initiating linkages with post-baccalaureate programs over 20 years ago. As the
advisor for SALUD, she supports students in offering medical Spanish and
outreach to the Hispanic community.
Major Michael B. Moore, DO (OPM screen name: Mike Moore)
Major Michael Moore has just graduated as a Doctor of Osteopathy from the
Pacific Northwest University of Health Science at the age of 50. Featured in the
2011 CNN blog article “Never too late to be a doctor,” he optimizes what a
highly motivated nontraditional student can achieve. Even as a busy older
medical student, he has embraced new technology in social media and blogs. He
has a following of nearly 10,000 on twitter and was student blogger last year
with the prestigious British medical journal “The Lancet.” Mike’s work has been
reposted on such sites as Medgadget, TEDMED, KevinMD and WingofZock.
Mike has become a physician after many years of service in the US Army as an
Airborne Infantryman, Aviator, and Physician Assistant and will continue to serve
at the Madigan Army Medical Center on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, where he
will do his residency in Family Medicine. He is a decorated combat veteran both
as a Cavalry soldier during Operation Desert Storm and as a medical officer
during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Major Moore’s military awards and
decorations include the Bronze Star, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army
Commendation Medal, Expert Infantryman Badge, Army Aviator Badge, Senior
Parachutist Badge, and the Ranger Tab. He was born in Jacksonville, FL, but as
a "military brat" and solider, has lived in many places in the United States and
around the world. Major Moore has also received Bachelor of Science degrees
from Troy University and Alderson-Broaddus College as well as a Master of
Physician Assistant Studies (Emergency Medicine) degree from the University of
Nebraska. He will be the first physician in his family. Mike is married to a
physician and they live with their two children in the Seattle/Tacoma area of
Washington State. His interests include the outdoors, reading, running, writing,
and community service. He served on the board of Operation Ward 57; an
organization devoted the care of wounded service members. He is a "Marathon
Maniac" (#2283) and one of three men in the Pacific Northwest region to receive
the Gold Phidippides Award from USA Track & Field in 2010 for "Outstanding
Performance and Endurance in Long Distance Running."
Todd, Nelson, MD
Dr. Nelson originally pursued dual degrees in electrical engineering and
physiology, and graduated from University of Connecticut. In an effort to blend
the two fields, he pursued graduate coursework, also at the University of
Connecticut, and earned a Master’s degree in biomedical engineering. After
graduating, he worked in industry for two years with Hamilton-Sundstrand Space
Systems, a division of United Technologies. He then returned to academics and
earned his medical doctorate at St. George's University. After graduation, he
entered residency training at Waukesha Family Medicine Residency Program and,
this fall, will be starting a full time outpatient family medicine position. In his
spare time, he enjoys photography, hiking, swimming, boating, and biking,
especially with his wife and two children.
Mary R. Renard, MD (OPM screen name: Mary Renard)
Mary Renard grew up in Northern Virginia and earned her BSN from Georgetown
University in 1978. Prior to med school, she worked as an obstetrics nurse,
childbirth educator, and nonprofit administrator while raising her three children.
In 1997, Mary returned to school to complete her medical school prerequisites at
George Mason University in a DIY (do-it-yourself) post-bacc. She went on to earn
her medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine and
Health Sciences graduating in 2004 at the age of 48. Mary chose family medicine
because she enjoyed every single one of her core rotations during third year of
med school and went to complete her residency at Virginia Commonwealth
University (VCU)/Fairfax Family Practice where she served as Academic Chief
Resident. Mary likes to say after years of study and debt, being “a real honest to
God attending physician is priceless!” As board-certified physician practicing
family medicine in Ashburn, VA, her typical day in will incorporate a little office
surgery, some pediatrics, a fair amount of psychiatry, lots of internal medicine,
and some OB/GYN. When she is not working, she is sharing pictures of her
grandchildren on Facebook.
Carrie Oldham Robey (OPM screen name: CarrieLiz)
Carrie Oldham Robey is a wife and mother from Nashville, TN, who attended
Drake University on a full academic scholarship, graduating with honors in 1998
with a BA in Psychology and a minor in Sociology. She works in a typical middle
management corporate job for a large hospital chain, and tours as a
singer/songwriter "on the side!" While her corporate job pays the bills, she has no
passion for it. In her position, Carrie interacts daily with physicians, practice
managers, and hospitals (from the business side), and after wishing she was on the
other side of that proverbial fence for almost nine years, her husband finally
convinced her to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a physician. She began
her post-bacc work back in January of 2010, and she found her company to be
supportive—allowing her to flex her schedule for classes, paying her tuition, and
even expressing an interest in hiring her back if she makes it through this "crazy
scheme!" Suddenly finding herself void of any remaining excuses, Carrie
launched her family into this seemingly ridiculous journey. Her biggest concern
was the impact her "dream chasing" would have on her husband, Mark, and their
two daughters.
The family decided to take things one semester at a time. But with her husband
firmly in her corner, her extended family close by for support, and her company as
her biggest cheerleader, Carrie now finds herself on the verge of beginning
medical school this fall. As if the ride wasn't crazy enough already (working full
time, going to school, applying, and interviewing, etc.), Mark and Carrie found out
in June 2012 (just as her application was being submitted) that they were
expecting their third beautiful daughter. Affectionately referred to as "Surprise
Robey,” she was born in February of this year! Mark works as a contract pilot for
the Army, and his schedule has him in Afghanistan 90 days at a time, so the family
is coming up with some unique logistical solutions to make it all work this year.
They haven't come this far to stop now! Their motto has and will continue to be,
"We are in this together, and we never give up!"
Liza Thompson, M.Ed. (OPM screen name: lizat)
Liza Thompson has spent the last 20 years advising nontraditional students
through their premedical coursework and the medical school application process.
As the former director of the Johns Hopkins and Goucher Post-Baccalaureate
Premedical Programs, Ms. Thompson has a unique understanding of the issues
specific to older students and the challenges they face when switching from a
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Paul White has been affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University since 1994, first
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2006. From 2006 to February 2012, he worked for the University of Minnesota
Medical School as the Associate Dean for Admissions, before returning to Johns
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American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC)
American University of The Caribbean School of Medicine (AUC)
A.T. Still University (ATSU) including
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School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona (ATSU-SOMA)
California School of Podiatric Medicine - Samuel Merritt University (CSPM)
Drexel University School of Medicine
Office of Professional Studies In Health Sciences (DREXEL- PB)
Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine of (VCOM) including
Virginia Campus (VCOM-VC)
Carolina Campus (VCOM-CC)
George Washington Univ. School of Medicine & Health Sciences (GWU-SOM)
International American University - College of Medicine
Kansas City University of Medicine and Bioscience (KCUMB)
Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions (KAPTEST)
Keck Graduate Institute - Postbaccalaureate Premedical Certificate (KGI-PPC)
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) including
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School of Dental Medicine
Medical Education & Post-Baccalaureate
Lincoln Memorial University - DeBusk School of Osteopathic Medicine (DCOM)
Ross University School of Medicine (ROSS)
St. Georges University School of Medicine (SGU)
The Princeton Review (TPR)
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USUHS)
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