Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine

What are the graduation rates for students at Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine?

ICOM's completion outcomes should be evaluated as medical-school outcomes, not against four- or six-year undergraduate graduation rates. Its first DO class graduated in 2022, making cohort definitions especially important when comparing results across years.

A useful completion figure identifies the entering class, how many students began, how many earned the DO degree, and whether graduates who took additional time are counted. Residency placement is a different measure: matching or otherwise entering postgraduate training does not, by itself, describe how many entering students completed medical school. Applicants reviewing published outcomes should keep those populations and time periods separate.

What is the earning potential for graduates at Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine?

There is no single starting salary that meaningfully represents every ICOM DO graduate. After medical school, many graduates enter residency, where compensation and working conditions differ from those of physicians who have completed training.

Physician earnings later in a career vary by specialty, practice setting, geography, training stage, and hours worked. Any earnings figure used to compare medical schools should identify whether it measures residents or practicing physicians, when earnings were recorded, and whether the statistic is a median or an average. Earnings also need to be weighed against medical-school borrowing and the years of postgraduate training required for a chosen specialty.