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The ten-second tour
At a glance
27 programs, ranked by your odds as a DO. 18 of them carry the mark Open to outside DOs, which means their own roster shows DOs matching in from other schools. Those are your strongest options. Tap any program for the full breakdown.
Showing 12 of 19. The other 7 rank below every one of them.
4 more programs are in your scope and not worth the fee. They are in the table below with the reason on each row.
Showing 12 of your 15 signals. The other 3 are marked on the table, in the same order.
4 more programs are in your scope and not worth the fee. They are in the table below with the reason on each row.
Your away rotation plan
One thing matters more than this whole page: the letter you get from the month you are about to spend. A program that knows you outranks a program that likes your paperwork.
Your application plan
Why a list this size: Last year 95.4% of the DO seniors who wanted this specialty matched into it, so a list here starts at 16. ERAS prices applications 1 through 30 at $11 each and only the 31st onward at $30, so we would not recommend stopping short of 30: the cheap tier costs little to fill. The target was 30, and the search already runs everywhere we index: this page is every program we can honestly put in front of you.
Worth rehearsing one answer before your first interview: why this specialty and why this city. We would keep it to three sentences. Community programs are trying to work out whether you would actually come, and that answer is most of what they have to go on.
Premeducated's residency advising takes this list the rest of the way with a team of attending physicians across specialties, several of whom have served on the residency selection committees that decide who gets an interview. It covers your final program list built on this same engine, personal statement reviews, mock interviews, rank list advising, away rotation planning, and SOAP support if match week goes wrong. The upper tiers carry a Match Guarantee.
See the residency advising tiersThe picture that explains everything
Not just "does this program take DOs." Also: are those DO spots already spoken for by one school? Big circles are big programs.
Read it like this: you want to be in the shaded corner. Plenty of DOs, and no single school with a lock on the spots. The list below also counts program size and what each program publishes, so a program can sit deep in the corner and still rank a spot or two lower.
This plots 16 of the 27 programs on this page and names 10 of them. Every one of them, plotted or not, is in the table below.
All 27
Ordered with what you said you wanted counted in. Safest reorders by position strength alone. The two orders agree down to #1.
These are the 27 programs we hold in the 9 metros you picked. 675 more sit outside it and are not on this page.
This opens on the strongest 10. The arrow keys walk down it and the button underneath shows the rest, which are held back rather than cut.
Two columns, two questions. Fit is how strong your position is there, and it does not change. What to do is what to spend, and it changes with the year. Where they disagree, the Why column says why. The number runs on a fixed scale where 38 is where a program stops being realistic for you and 84 is a strong position, so two programs that look close together are close together. Programs a point or two apart are not meaningfully different, and 13 of the programs below sit that close to one another, so we would read the order among them as a tie rather than as a ranking. Open to outside DOs under a program name answers a third question, and it is about the program rather than about you.
| Program | Spots | % DO | Fit | Why | What to do |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 60% | 87 | 60% DO roster, far above the 16.4% typical for this specialty.It is in the metro you put first.Brand new seats, with no pipeline to displace.60% DO roster, far above the 16.4% typical for this specialty.It is in the metro you put first.Brand new seats, with no pipeline to displace. | Your OctoberGold signal | |
20first-year spots 6 in 10residents are DOs 33%held by AZCOM 5different DO schools Yesworth your money
Went from zero to roughly 60 approved positions in September 2024 and is still filling them. Initial Accreditation means no graduated class and no board-pass track record, which also means less competition. Brand new seats, so there is no entrenched pipeline of students from one school to displace. 60% of the residents are osteopathic. They prefer graduation within 5 years. FREIDA lists a special track here: Rural.
Its seats are new, so no school has a pipeline into them yet, though it draws DOs from 5 schools, against 9 around it. Roster counted from the program's own published list. We read it as academic year 2025-26. | |||||
| about 6 | 63% | 81 | 63% DO roster, far above the 16.4% typical for this specialty.It is in the metro you put first.Nobody’s home turf: no single school owns the seats.63% DO roster, far above the 16.4% typical for this specialty.It is in the metro you put first.Nobody’s home turf: no single school owns the seats. | Your SeptemberGold signal | |
about 6first-year spots 6 in 10residents are DOs 25%held by AZCOM 7different DO schools Yesworth your money
Cleanest affiliation profile in Phoenix. No visa sponsorship, so no IMG competition for these seats. This is nobody's home turf: no single school owns the seats here. 63% of the residents are osteopathic. They prefer graduation within 3 years. FREIDA lists special tracks here: Primary care, Academic or clinician educator.
It has only about 6 first-year seats against 20 around it. Roster counted from the program's own published list. We read it as academic year 2025-26. We counted 63.2% osteopathic off their own resident list. The program reports 57.1% to FREIDA. Those two numbers are not measuring the same group of people, so neither one settles it. Worth asking them directly what their current mix is. | |||||
| 25 | 23.7% | 81 | 23.7% DO roster, above the 16.4% typical for this specialty.It is in the metro you put first.They recruit from 11 different DO schools.23.7% DO roster, above the 16.4% typical for this specialty.It is in the metro you put first.They recruit from 11 different DO schools. | Your AugustGold signal | |
25first-year spots 2 in 10residents are DOs 28%held by Midwestern University Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine 11different DO schools Yesworth your money
The strongest row in this backfill and the one whose absence cost the most. A current roster, 18 osteopathic residents drawn from 11 different schools with no school holding more than 28% of them, a DO program director, and both Hematology/Oncology and Pulmonary/Critical Care in house. It publishes no attempt policy and says explicitly it has no strict exam cut-offs. They recruit widely, from 11 different DO schools rather than from one or two. They prefer graduation within 2 years. FREIDA lists a special track here: Primary care.
It has 25 first-year seats against 13 around it, though its roster is 23.7% osteopathic, against 62% around it. Roster counted from the program's own published list. We read it as academic year 2026-27. We counted 23.7% osteopathic off their own resident list. The program reports 20% to FREIDA. Those two numbers are not measuring the same group of people, so neither one settles it. Worth asking them directly what their current mix is. | |||||
| 4 | 64% | 77 | 64% DO roster, far above the 16.4% typical for this specialty.It is in the metro you put first.Few first-year seats.64% DO roster, far above the 16.4% typical for this specialty.It is in the metro you put first.Few first-year seats. | Your JulySilver signal | |
4first-year spots 6 in 10residents are DOs 44%held by AZCOM 4different DO schools Yesworth your money Only 4 first-year seats, so there is not much room even when they like you.
Legacy AOA heritage with the Midwestern ownership severed. KCU supplies 3 of the 9 DOs from out of state, which is direct proof the program hires nationally. 64% of the residents are osteopathic. They prefer graduation within 3 years. FREIDA lists a required specialty-specific away rotation here: at least 1 rotation. FREIDA lists special tracks here: Primary care, Rural, Women's health, Hospitalist.
Its roster is 64% osteopathic, against 49% around it, though it has only 4 first-year seats against 24 around it. Within 2 points of 9 others here, so the order among them is close to a coin flip. Roster counted from the program's own published list. We read it as academic year 2026-27. We counted 64.3% osteopathic off their own resident list. The program reports 53.3% to FREIDA. Those two numbers are not measuring the same group of people, so neither one settles it. Worth asking them directly what their current mix is. | |||||
| 35 | 27% | 77 | 27% DO roster, above the 16.4% typical for this specialty.It is in a metro you picked.They recruit from 18 different DO schools.27% DO roster, above the 16.4% typical for this specialty.It is in a metro you picked.They recruit from 18 different DO schools. | RecommendedSilver signal | |
35first-year spots 3 in 10residents are DOs 16%held by AZCOM 18different DO schools Yesworth your money
The best dispersion in the entire dataset: 25 DOs drawn from 17 different schools, with no feeder above 16%. Academic, so a failed exam bites hardest here. This is nobody's home turf: no single school owns the seats here. They recruit widely, from 18 different DO schools rather than from one or two. They prefer graduation within 5 years. FREIDA lists a required specialty-specific away rotation here: at least 1 rotation, and at most 2.
It has 35 first-year seats against 15 around it, though its roster is 27% osteopathic, against 63% around it. Within 2 points of 9 others here, so the order among them is close to a coin flip. Roster counted from the program's own published list. We read it as academic year 2026-27. We counted 27% osteopathic off their own resident list. The program reports 29.7% to FREIDA. Those two numbers are not measuring the same group of people, so neither one settles it. Worth asking them directly what their current mix is. | |||||
| about 24 | 49% | 76 | 49% DO roster, far above the 16.4% typical for this specialty.It is in a metro you picked.They recruit from 12 different DO schools.49% DO roster, far above the 16.4% typical for this specialty.It is in a metro you picked.They recruit from 12 different DO schools. | RecommendedSilver signal | |
about 24first-year spots 5 in 10residents are DOs 31%held by Touro NV 12different DO schools Yesworth your money
The highest-value target in Nevada and the only Nevada Internal Medicine program with an in-house fellowship. No affiliation tie to any one school. They recruit widely, from 12 different DO schools rather than from one or two. It draws DOs from 12 different schools, against 9 around it. Within 2 points of 11 others here, so the order among them is close to a coin flip. Roster counted from the program's own published list. We read it as academic year 2025-26. | |||||
| — | 70% | 76 | 70% DO roster, far above the 16.4% typical for this specialty.It is in a metro you picked.70% DO roster, far above the 16.4% typical for this specialty.It is in a metro you picked. | RecommendedSilver signal | |
7 in 10residents are DOs 43%held by Touro NV 9different DO schools Yesworth your money
Legacy AOA program with an OPTI sponsor and a DO program director. 12 of the 21 DOs are not Touro, so outsiders do get in. 70% of the residents are osteopathic. This is a distinct ACGME program from its same-system twin and needs its own ERAS application.
Its roster is 70% osteopathic, against 57% around it, though Touro NV holds 43% of its osteopathic seats, against 31% around it. Within 2 points of 11 others here, so the order among them is close to a coin flip. Roster counted from the program's own published list, which carries no academic year. | |||||
| 13 | not resolved | 76 | It is in a metro you picked.Nobody’s home turf: no single school owns the seats.The roster never resolved, so we cannot see who trains here. An application is cheap and a month is not, so we would send one and hold the month.It is in a metro you picked.Nobody’s home turf: no single school owns the seats. | RecommendedSilver signal | |
13first-year spots 23%held by A.T. Still University Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine 8different DO schools Yesworth your money
Sponsored by the osteopathic school itself. That ownership does not close it to outside DOs, it closes it to MDs and international graduates. This is nobody's home turf: no single school owns the seats here. They hold Osteopathic Recognition, which is the ACGME saying they train osteopathic residents, so we count them as a DO program even though nobody has published a roster we could count. The roster is published, but it prints no degree beside any name, so how many of its residents are osteopathic cannot be counted. What is documented instead is structural: the program is sponsored by the osteopathic school itself, it holds ACGME Osteopathic Recognition, and its program director is a DO.
No school took more than 23% of its osteopathic matches since 2022, against 43% around it, though it has only 13 first-year seats against 19 around it. Within 2 points of 11 others here, so the order among them is close to a coin flip. | |||||
| 10 | 69% | 75 | 69% DO roster, far above the 16.4% typical for this specialty.It is in a metro you picked.69% DO roster, far above the 16.4% typical for this specialty.It is in a metro you picked. | RecommendedSilver signal | |
10first-year spots 7 in 10residents are DOs 50%held by Rocky Vista 9different DO schools Yesworth your money
Reached 69% DO by present-day recruiting rather than by ownership, which is the healthier way to get there. Rocky Vista supplies half the DO seats. 69% of the residents are osteopathic. Its roster is 69% osteopathic, against 51% around it, though it has only 10 first-year seats against 17 around it. Within 2 points of 12 others here, so the order among them is close to a coin flip. Roster counted from the program's own published list. We read it as academic year 2026-27. | |||||
| 14 | 52.8% | 75 | 52.8% DO roster, far above the 16.4% typical for this specialty.It is in a metro you picked.52.8% DO roster, far above the 16.4% typical for this specialty.It is in a metro you picked. | RecommendedSilver signal | |
14first-year spots 5 in 10residents are DOs 52.6%held by OSU-COM 9different DO schools Yesworth your money
Just over half the roster is osteopathic, and the in-state osteopathic school supplies 10 of those 19. A real chance, and worth an application. Within 2 points of 12 others here, so the order among them is close to a coin flip. Roster counted from the program's own published list, which carries no academic year. | |||||
Where they are
Click any pin to see the programs at that spot and where they rank on your list.
1 program is plotted here without a name, because the frame has no room for one at that spot. It is in the table below like everything else.
Your 4 months
If you would rather stay in Phoenix, AZ: consider swapping in Abrazo. The most concentrated program in Arizona, but 63 residents means roughly 19 non-AZCOM DO seats exist. An away rotation here is the difference between plausible and not.
Your signals
Your specialty gives you 3 gold and 12 silver signals this season, and up to three geographic preferences. Spent well they get your file read.
Brand new seats, so there is no entrenched pipeline of students from one school to displace.
This is nobody's home turf: no single school owns the seats here.
They recruit widely, from 11 different DO schools rather than from one or two.
ERAS lets you name up to three regions, and only programs inside a region you name ever see it. You have a real tie here and programs use it when they choose interviews. A program outside your regions sees nothing rather than a no, so naming the region you mean costs you nothing anywhere else. We recommend naming it rather than leaving it blank, and keeping it focused rather than spread thin.
The most osteopathic program near you and the least worth a signal. AZCOM already holds 14 of those seats.
This week
We would book the away rotation at Four Peaks as soon as VSLO opens. 2 programs on your list require one, and FREIDA gives each a minimum number of rotations: Four Peaks (at least 1), UA Tucson (at least 1), and they publish that an application without it is not read. If the block you want is gone, it is worth asking them directly what they still have, because a later block still counts and no block at all does not.
Before VSLO opens
Worth calling Abrazo to ask how they treat board attempts and scores. They are the one program on your list whose own pages we could not reach, so their row is ranked on everything except the rules that screen. If the rules turn out to be strict, the row drops and you have saved a fee. If they are not, it stays where it is and you have made a call worth making.
Next week
What actually decides this
The average program gets about a thousand applications and cuts half with an automatic filter before a human sees a name. Which programs you apply to matters more than anything you write.
What this means for you. 21 of the programs on your list publish no score cutoff at all, and that is exactly why they made the list.
Every number here counts ranks: programs a student placed on the final ordered list they submit to the Match. A program can only be ranked after it interviews you, so a longer rank list means more interviews.
Inside the geography you picked, 24 programs will read your file at all, so where you are looking is not what limits the length of your list. A rank starts as an interview, so the part you control now is how many programs read your file in the first place. At the end of the season, rank every program that interviewed you and that you would actually attend, because leaving one off can only cost you. Nothing here changes the order of the list above it. Source: NRMP Charting Outcomes: U.S. DO Seniors, 2026 Main Residency Match, Table IM-1, Chart IM-2 and Table 3.
Optional reading
15 of the 27 programs on this page publish something about how they build their own year, and 6 publish enough of it to draw. None of it counts toward the ranking above.
Read each program's year on its own rather than comparing one bar with the next. Programs do not count clinic the same way: a program that gives you a whole week of it shows a clinic block, and a program that gives you a half day every week shows none at all while its residents are in clinic every week of the year. The other 12 programs on your list are not shown here because we do not hold anything for them, which is not the same as those programs publishing nothing.
Banner DesertMesa, AZ4+4 clinic rhythm
Their intern year, as they publish it: 12 months.
Their intern year shows one ambulatory month, and on top of it their residents are in continuity clinic one full day a week for most of the year. The night float in their intern year sits inside the inpatient months rather than beside them.
In their words: “Continuity Clinic: residents attend continuity clinic one full day per week during non-call blocks, maintaining consistent relationships with their panel of patients”
“We use a 4+4 block system, with 12 rotations each academic year.” their page
Thompson PeakScottsdale, AZ
“We have a modified X+Y system that separates ambulatory time from inpatient and elective time so residents can give each rotation their full attention and minimize frequent switching between settings.” their page
Four PeaksMesa, AZ
“Rotations are structured in 4-week blocks, 13 blocks annually.” their page
UA TucsonTucson, AZ4+1 clinic rhythm
“In our 4+1 system, residents participate in various rotations for four weeks followed by one full week of clinic.” their page
National averages across 1,018 residency programs. Source: NRMP Program Director Survey, 2021.
The gap between these two rows is the whole argument for getting the list right the first time. Most programs report interviewing DO seniors. Far fewer report interviewing DO graduates a year later.
How often programs interview each type of applicant. Source: NRMP Program Director Survey, 2021, 902 programs responding.
Roughly a third of programs screen on a specific COMLEX number, a third just need to see a pass, and a fifth do not look at it. If your score is strong, the third that wants a number is where it works hardest for you. If it is not, most programs are not screening on it.
Level 1 went pass or fail in 2022, so only the Level 2-CE row still applies to you. How programs use COMLEX when deciding which DO applicants to interview. Source: NRMP Program Director Survey, 2021, 944 programs responding.
Every ranking, every rotation month and every to-do in a Premeducated residency report is our reading of the data we hold. None of it is a requirement, and none of it says you may not apply somewhere. A program we mark Not recommended is one the evidence does not put near the top of your list, not a door we are telling you is closed. Where a program's own published rule is firm we say so and name the program, and that is the program speaking rather than us. You are the one deciding where your application goes.
The program list is built from the accreditation data ACGME publishes. The osteopathic head counts come from the resident rosters programs publish themselves and from the match lists osteopathic schools publish each spring. That is all public information, gathered from what is available online, and it is incomplete by nature: a program that publishes nothing is recorded as publishing nothing. Of the 27 programs on your list, 20 publish a resident roster we were able to count. The other 7 do not, and those rows say so rather than filling the gap with an estimate.
A roster is also a snapshot of who was in training on the day we read it. Programs change with their leadership, their funding and who applies to them in a given year, so a share that was true last season may not be true this one.
Nothing in the report forecasts an interview, a rank position or a match. Those decisions are made by program directors and selection committees using a great deal we cannot see, including your letters, your dean's letter, your interviews, and the rest of the applicant pool in the year you apply.
Score floors, board attempt policies, visa sponsorship, signal counts, application deadlines and away rotation requirements change every season, and ours can lag a program's own page. Before you spend an application fee or a month of fourth year on any of it, confirm it against that program's own website, ERAS and the NRMP. Where we hold a program's own words we show them and link to the page they came from, so you can check ours against theirs.
If a number does not match what a program publishes, use the feedback button in the app or write to contact@premeducated.com and say so. We would rather correct it than defend it.
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Everything in a Premeducated residency report is a recommendation built from public data, not a rule and not a prediction of where you will match. Confirm a program's own requirements with the program before you rely on them. · Disclaimer
Everything in a Premeducated residency report is a recommendation built from public data, not a rule and not a prediction of where you will match. Confirm a program's own requirements with the program before you rely on them. · Disclaimer
Everything in a Premeducated residency report is a recommendation built from public data, not a rule and not a prediction of where you will match. Confirm a program's own requirements with the program before you rely on them. · Disclaimer
Everything in a Premeducated residency report is a recommendation built from public data, not a rule and not a prediction of where you will match. Confirm a program's own requirements with the program before you rely on them. · Disclaimer
Everything in a Premeducated residency report is a recommendation built from public data, not a rule and not a prediction of where you will match. Confirm a program's own requirements with the program before you rely on them. · Disclaimer
Everything in a Premeducated residency report is a recommendation built from public data, not a rule and not a prediction of where you will match. Confirm a program's own requirements with the program before you rely on them. · Disclaimer
Everything in a Premeducated residency report is a recommendation built from public data, not a rule and not a prediction of where you will match. Confirm a program's own requirements with the program before you rely on them. · Disclaimer