NYITCOM’s Osteopathic Medicine, D.O. program trains physicians for a lifetime of learning and practice based upon the integration of evidence-based knowledge, critical thinking, and the tenets of osteopathic principles and practice.
Why Earn Your Medical Degree at New York Tech?
New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM) offers remarkable opportunities that make it a compelling choice for your medical education. With two campuses, in Long Island near New York City and in northeast Arkansas, we offer a comprehensive, current, and competitive curriculum featuring state-of-the-art research, biomedical, and anatomy labs run by world-renowned, grant-funded research faculty members. And the strong relationships we have with top hospitals and healthcare facilities for clinical study lead to highly competitive residency placements.
Our diverse student population—the heart of the foremost osteopathic medical school for awarding doctorate degrees to minority students—creates a connected community that fosters academic success and overall wellness. That community persists after graduation, through our engaged, active network of successful alumni in a wide range of specialties.
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What You’ll Learn
Whether you pursue a career as a healthcare professional or researcher, you’ll benefit from our research centers, medical clinics, and expert faculty. We prepare you for diverse specialties and settings, fostering compassion, responsibility, and self-care for success in medicine.
Engage in extensive mentored research alongside our faculty. Current areas of scholarly investigation include cancer, neuroscience, cardiovascular disease, bioinformatics, and much more.
To complete your medical school training, you’ll spend the final two years of this sequence in diverse, immersive patient care settings. Placements reflect our extensive network of partnering regional hospitals and healthcare facilities.
As you train at the intersection of clinical practice and cutting-edge medical research, you’ll access a variety of advanced facilities dedicated to studying the human body, cellular and tissue functions, protein activity, and genetic variations.
In the five-year D.O. / Academic Medicine M.S. program, you’ll master osteopathic principles, advanced biostatistics, and epidemiology. Enhance doctor-patient interactions, refine clinical diagnostic skills, and delve into research methodologies.
The College of Osteopathic Medicine, in cooperation with the School of Health Professions and School of Management, developed a unique set of programs that allow our medical students the opportunity to obtain two degrees within the structured four-year medical curriculum.
The Center for Global Health (CGH) is dedicated to developing healthcare professionals who are empathetic leaders and change agents, ready to tackle the global burden of disease and health disparities at home and abroad.
Stats & Rankings
#7
Highest student mobility rates among U.S. four-year private, nonprofit institutions.
Chronicle of Higher Education
First
Osteopathic medical school in New York State (established 1977).
95%
COMLEX Level 2 pass rate for NYITCOM students in 2019–2020.
Career & Salary Outlook
Population growth and an increasing number of older adults, who have a higher likelihood than young people of experiencing health problems and of needing complex care, are expected to drive overall employment growth for physician and surgeons (BLS).
Job Growth
Overall employment of physicians and surgeons is projected to grow 3 percent from 2022 to 2032 (BLS).
About 24,200 openings for physicians and surgeons are projected each year, on average, over the decade (BLS).
Employers & Internships
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Kaiser Permanente Medicare
Lenox Hill Hospital
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
NYU Langone Health
Stony Brook University Hospital
Career Options
Academic Physician
Clinician Researcher
Family Medicine
Neuromusculoskeletal Researcher
Orthopedist
Rheumatologist
Salary Projections
Salaries for physicians and surgeons are among the highest of all occupations, with a median salary equal to or greater than $239,200 per year (BLS).
Program Details
Learn more about the Osteopathic Medicine, D.O program, including admission requirements, how to apply, and scholarship/funding opportunities.
To be eligible for admission to NYITCOM, you must:
Be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
Have a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution (exceptions for formal articulation agreements)
Complete prerequisite courses in English, Biology, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Physics
Have taken the MCAT (scores from January 2021 and later)
Accept NYITCOM technical standards for acceptance and matriculation
To be eligible to transfer, a student must have successfully completed the first two years of an osteopathic medical school curriculum accredited by the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA) and be in good academic standing.
The College of Osteopathic Medicine is institutionally accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE). The Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine program receives its program accreditation from the American Osteopathic Association Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA).
I applied for a psychiatry residency. They’re a perfect fit: In osteopathic training, we look at a patient holistically, and in psychiatry, you have to have the mindset to treat the whole patient, examine their psychological and social background and their medical and genetic history.
Domenick Sportelli (D.O. ’09) Physician at NJ Center for Advanced Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
Become a compassionate healer with our Osteopathic Medicine, D.O. program. Embrace holistic care, gain hands-on clinical experience, and prepare for a successful medical career with expert faculty and state-of-the-art facilities.
