I know a good portion of them are now at ARCOM or other osteopathic schools. Dr. Stowers, who was the founding dean and the namesake of one of our lecture halls is currently the Dean at Arcom along with OPP faculty and basic science faculty that was previously at DCOM. also
@Mehd School had a much smaller class size. ours is around 235ish currently if you count the 10-15 people who were held back from the class of 2020 and those that have been dismissed. Quite a bit has changed since he was here so while his information isnt wrong, it certainly is dated.
The dean told us that the Knoxville campus isnt a separate school, but just a extension of the Harrogate campus with 125 of those students starting in 2019 being at the Knoxville campus and each subsequent year having 200. ive never heard of this happening before. So our student body just doubled to 430-440.
Also, board scores at DCOM are currently 20 points below the national Comlex 1 average, national average is 520. However the administration announced today that they are making amiable efforts (in my opinion) to correct this by giving my class a much larger prep time for boards than previous years, approximately 8 weeks of dedicated for average students and 12 for at risk students along with a lighter course load in the spring and an optional board prep course that will be mandatory for at risk students (they used to do this but cut it in recent years). The dean attributed the below average scores to the "bottom 25%" of the class and said that when they are removed from the data pool (purely statistical analysis) that the top 75% perform at or above the national average. Without seeing the data you cannot really confirm or deny this.
And finally, the Accreditation with Heightened Awareness was discussed today in detail. According to the dean we were dinged on 4 categories and the report was shown to us, none of which are due to the pre-clinical curriculim
2 for failure to produce more GME spots (or something along those lines)
Failure to incorporate valid student feedback into the current curriculum both in clinicals and preclinicals. The dean said this is what got us in trouble and that it was mostly due to the fact that we didn't yet have enough data to show COCA that the students were actually heard. This was a point of contention as many did not feel this way.
The final issue was that there was significant difference between Comlex 2 PE scores among students at different clinical sites alluding to the possibility that clinical site teaching is not standardized across all rotation sites.