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@Camaxtli.
Ok so i'm finishing up my first year and here is what I have to say about PCOM:
Overall my experience has been a positive one, I think the school is a fine institution and I believe it can get you where you want to go in life. Maybe because I go to PCOM and we have such an extensive OPTI network, that I've never felt that a DO "can't do neurosurgery or ortho or urology" or any of that BS. The best thing about PCOM is going to be the clinical and GME education that it can provide. Our surgical and surgical subspecialty residencies are very good and considered some of the best AOA residencies around. I've heard (non PCOM) residents say that PCOM urology residency (located at Einstein) is even better than some ACGME residencies. Last fall, PCOM posted where our general surgery residents were going for fellowship and about 5-6 of them were going to ACGME cardiothoracic or trauma fellowships. Another interesting note, is that if you look at the surgical and surgical subspecialty residencies you'll notice that there is a lot of in house favoritism, meaning that they tend to pick PCOM grads over other schools.
Our clinical education is also more of the same, and yes we do rotate with MD students. PCOM recently has made a change to the way we do our core rotations during 3rd year by setting up these "clinical core campuses" which basically means that you do all of your 3rd year rotations at one site. Which could be a good thing or could be a bad thing. The two biggest core campus sites that we have are Lankenau and Einstein, both of which are shared by Jefferson. There are others but they are located in Pittsburgh, Reading, and the Geisinger health system. However there are only enough spots for roughly half the class. Which may or may not be much of a problem, some students didn't want to be stuck at one hospital and opted to rotate the traditional way. If you didn't get a CCC slot, than you would rotate the way PCOM traditionally rotates. The CCC sites created a lot of controversy because anybody who planned on rotating where a CCC site was set up had their rotation cancelled. Obviously this made a lot of students unhappy.
From what i've seen our pre-clinical education seems to be pointing us in the right direction. PCOM states (like every US medical school in the country), that they "do not teach to the boards", which is very true. The lectures i've had so far 90% of the time go along with First Aid for the USMLE and pathoma, the other 10% of the time you're given more information than needed. The biggest thing about medical education, is that it is what you make of it. If you think you can just study lecture material and do well on boards, you're wrong and if you think that if you can just study for the boards and barely pass your classes you're also very wrong.
The biggest complaint that I see from students is about the administration, some feel that they are out of touch and disorganized. They're constantly changing the curriculum, which can be good or bad depending on what's changed. Right now there is an internal push to have our curriculum changed to a pass/fail system, which I hope they change too. It wouldn't affect me, but I think it would be better for the incoming students if we had a true pass/fail grading scheme.
I'm definitely looking forward to attending. 
