WVSOM info and Open House

ADMISSIONS UPDATES Requirements  Please encourage students to review our detailed list of requirements online at www.wvsom.edu/requirements. For the 2017 recruitment cycle, the minimum science GPA is a 3.0 and the minimum MCAT is a 490.  Average Accepted Student Profile Science GPA 3.4 MCAT 500 Interviews The interviews this year consist of students having a 30 minute individual interview with members of our faculty and one representative from the Admissions Office.  After the interview, applicants no longer participate in the Standardized Applicant Encounters as part of the interview. Students have an experience with our simulators in our state-of-the-art Clinical Evaluation Center. A comprehensive tour of the facility is provided and applicants learn how the facility is used to serve our students.  Applicants are invited to have lunch with current students. This is an opportunity for them to ask current students questions from their perspective.  Applicants complete the day touring the rest of our campus.    WILDERNESS ROTATION

Bridging the gap, rotations in the wilderness What began as a unique one-time opportunity for medical students and residents to participate in an 800-person medical team, has grown into an annual two-week wilderness medicine rotation in the rugged West Virginia New River Gorge area. The original experience included performing emergency and clinical medical services during the National Boy Scout Jamboree in 2013.  Even before the boisterous echoes of 34,000 Boy Scouts quieted from the hills surrounding the Summit Bechtel Reserve, Lisa Hrutkay, D.O., FACEP, Class of 1993, recognized the potential for a continuation of this type of emergency training. The wilderness medicine rotation was created to fill a void in on-site emergency preparedness training for osteopathic and allopathic medical students.  Hrutkay, emergency medical services director at Ohio Valley Medical Center (OVMC) in Wheeling and emergency medicine residency core faculty associate and clinical professor at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM), organized a co-sponsorship between OVMC and WVSOM to continue the wilderness medicine rotation in July 2014.       STUDENT SUCCESS Class of 2017 grads celebrate 100% match rate   Match Day is yet another day when medical students anxiously await results. More specifically, they learn if and where they will match into a residency program.   "For a medical school to reach 100% match is spectacular. Each of our students knows where they are going and are prepared to enter the workforce as physicians," said Dr. Craig Boisvert, D.O., WVSOM's vice president and dean.  "Every prospective medical student understands that at the end of your medical education you want to become a working physician, but in order to do that you need to acquire a spot in the match," said Class of 2017 President Miles Medina.  As part of the match celebration for the Class of 2017, students placed pins on a map where they matched.  UPCOMING EVENTS Fall Open House        Saturday, November 18, 2017 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. (EST)  Meet and greet breakfast  Curriculum overview  Lunch and networking  Tour our state-of-the-art facilities  Learn about our admissions process Financial aid presentation  Encourage your interested students to come learn more about WVSOM!  REGISTER ONLINE