1. the COMparison report A COMPARISON OF OU - COM TO ALL COM s NATIONALLY Trends and Graphs Office of Institutional Assessment & Planning Academic & Student Affairs Offices December 2010 Institutional Assessment at a Glance CURRICULUM & COMLEX

2. How does OU-COM compare to national COMs? In terms of... Income, Debt, and Financial Aid- Student Affairs Entering Class Dynamics- Admissions COMLEX Performance- Academic/Student Affairs COMLEX Performance- Academic/Student Affairs Student’s ratings on curriculum specifics and COMLEX preparation Student’s ratings on curriculum specifics and COMLEX preparation OU-COM PRs compared to national average OU-COM PRs compared to national average OU-COM’s ranking among all COMs OU-COM’s ranking among all COMs Recommendations Recommendations Analysis of COMLEX performance in relation to MCAT and curricular track Analysis of COMLEX performance in relation to MCAT and curricular track The “So What?” Question The “So What?” Question Primary Care and Practice Location-Alumni

3. In 2009 OU-COM seniors’ ratings of their 1 st two years of medical school were much higher than the national average in the following areas: Adequate exposure to patient care (99%) Basic science courses being sufficiently integrated with clinical training (95%) Course work adequately preparing them for clerkships (99.0%) Osteopathic principles adequately being integrated into course work (98%) Timely feedback on performance (97.0%)

4. Confidence level to perform examinations

5. COMLEX Preparation What did our 2009 seniors think?

6. OU-COM Compared to National Average (Above or Below)

7. OU-COM’s Ranking Among All COMS

8. COMLEX Level 3: Looking back further in time...

9. 1. Share with entering students the OU-COM COMLEX pass rates compared to national 2. Decide the most appropriate way to share the same data with our current first and second year students Recommendations

10. 2000-2008 Admits (N = 939) N%MEANMEDIAN Curriculum PCC19621% CPC73479% MCAT PCC24.525.0 CPC24.625.0

11. Closer look at Curriculum and MCAT...

12. COMLEX BY CURRICULUM GROUP 2000-2008 Admits (N = 939) COMLEX 1COMLEX 2COMLEX 3 FAILMEANFAILMEANFAILMEAN PCC9.2%50012.8%4968.3%507 CPC6.5%5247.3%5248.7%544 All7.5%5188.5%5198.6%536

13. MCAT TO COMLEX I Overall fail rate = 7.5%; N = 939 If total MCAT is less than: The odds of failure first time are: N 151 in 212 171 in 330 181 in 446 201 in 588 261 in 10558

14. MCAT TO COMLEX II Overall fail rate = 8.5%; N = 709 If total MCAT is less than: The odds of failure first time are: N 151 in 2.39 171 in 2.325 181 in 2.335 201 in 369 261 in 9437

15. MCAT TO COMLEX III Overall fail rate = 8.6%; N = 508 If total MCAT is less than: The odds of failure first time are: N 151 in 1.87 171 in 218 1 in 2.626 201 in 3.647 261 in 9316

16. 1. Every discovered relationship has the potential to be a spurious one: What are other alternative hypotheses that can be/should be explored for differences in fail rates? 2. COMLEX scores are but one marker of quality: Necessary but not sufficient What are other markers that are feasible to examine? 3. COMLEX scores are what they are: What is our target for this one marker? What strategies are needed to reach our target? The “So What?” Question