Outcomes

Residency Placements and Match Results

UNE COM Residency Placements

UNE COM is one of the top 10 medical schools in the nation for matching graduates with their first-choice residency program, according to U.S. News & World Report. Recent graduates have accepted residencies in Anesthesiology; Emergency Medicine; Family Medicine; Internal Medicine; Pediatrics; Neurology; Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine; Obstetrics and Gynecology; Pathology; Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Psychiatry; and General, Orthopedic, Neuro, and Vascular Surgery.

Residency Match Information

UNE Class Year2021202220232024
Class Size176163169166
Number of Students Placed in GME173162167164
American Osteopathic Association0000
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education167156158155
Military6699
Deferred post-graduate training by 1 year3122
Placement Rate98%99%99%99%

Celebrate Match Day with the Class of 2024

Residencies by Specialty

UNE COM Class of 2021 matched in a variety of specialties and will be training in sites across the country.

Graph displaying the specialties UNE COM Class of 2021 students matched in for residency

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Post-Graduate Training Destinations

Post-graduate training destinations and specialties for UNE COM graduates from 2017–2021.

Graph displaying the post-graduate training destinations and specialties for UNE COM students from 2017-2021

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COM By the Numbers

60+%

percentage of our graduates that practice in primary care disciplines

(i.e., Family Medicine, General Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics)
#1

provider of physicians for Maine.

Top 10

We rank in the top 10 medical schools where graduates are most likely to match with their first choice residency program

Top 5

We rank in the top five for mean score on the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination of the U.S. Levels 1 and 2.

COMLEX-USA

All osteopathic medical students are required to take COMLEX Levels 1 and 2. COMLEX Level 3 is taken during post-graduate medical training. The National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners (NBOME) website provides the following description of the COMLEX exams:

"The COMLEX-USA series is designed to assess the osteopathic medical knowledge and clinical skills considered essential for osteopathic generalist physicians to practice medicine without supervision. COMLEX-USA is constructed in the context of medical problem-solving which involves clinical presentations and physician tasks." For additional information on the NBOME and COMLEX exams, please refer to the website.

Students take the COMLEX level 1 following completion of their second year and level 2 after completion of their third year. Level 3 must be taken after graduation and during residency.

First-Time Pass Rates for COMLEX-USA Level 1

Testing Cycle First-Time Pass Rate National Pass Rate
May 2018–April 2019 98.8% 93%
May 2019–April 2020 97.8% 94.3%
May 2020–April 2021 98.1% 93.7%
May 2021–April 2022* 94.4% 92.2%
May 2022–April 2023* 96.9% 94.9%
May 2023–Sept 2023* 98.7% 93.8%

First-Time Pass Rates for COMLEX Level 2 Cognitive Evaluation (CE)

Testing Cycle First-Time Pass Rate National Pass Rate
June 2018–May 2019 98.9% 95.6%
June 2019–May 2020 99.4% 96.8%
June 2020–May 2021 98.3% 96.5%
June 2021–May 2022* 97.6% 95%

First-Time Pass Rates for COMLEX-USA Level 2 Performance Evaluation (PE)

The NBOME indefinitely postponed the COMLEX-USA Level 2-PE in 2020. Please refer to NBOME for the latest information.

Testing Cycle First-Time Pass Rate National Pass Rate
March 2017–February 2018 92.4% 93.2%
March 2018–February 2019 92.8% 93.2%
March 2019–March 2020* 90.4% 92%

First-Time Pass Rate for COMLEX-USA Level 3

Testing Cycle First-Time Pass Rate Number of Students
September 2018–December 2019 99.1% 229
January 2020–December 2020 98.7% 156
January 2021–December 2021 97.5% 157
January 2022–December 2022 98.5% 196

*Data represent all test takers during the specified cycle. First-time test taker results for these cycles are not yet available from NBOME.