BY LIZZY SPANGLER
Zooming in
Looking ahead
This fall at the College of Osteopathic Medicine, 568 total students are expected to be enrolled for the semester, which includes 102 seniors, accord- ing to data provided by SHSU. While students’ first and second years are spent on campus in Conroe, they move to various communities for further training in their third and fourth years, Mohr said. “[They are] really seeing real-world medicine in rural and underserved community-based training sites,” Mohr said. Mohr said students have moved to places like Lufkin, Nacogdoches, Texarkana and Beaumont. “We are bringing people from these commu- nities and then we train them in their third and fourth year back in those communities,” Mohr said. “If you came from Corpus [Christi] or Victoria ... that’s where you’re going to go back for your third and fourth year. And the likelihood of you actually coming back [to] practice in those areas of need ends up being much, much higher.”
SHSU College of Osteopathic Medicine's 2024 enrollment
In the next five to 10 years, Mohr said he would like to see more of the college’s student doctors staying in Texas or deciding to come back to the state to practice. “I want to see a larger percentage of them going into smaller communities that are the places in need so we can really start to move the needle on access to care,” he said. Mohr said he also would like to see the rural areas in Texas being taken care of when it comes to health care access. “Health care access is infrastructure,” he said. “It’s the same as water or roads or sanitation. You can’t grow or sustain a rural community unless you have health care access as well.”
Freshmen
Sophomores
Juniors
Seniors
162
164
140
102
Total enrollment: 568 students
Around 2,100 applications are received each year.
Approximately 750 applicants are interviewed.
162 students will be accepted into each class starting fall 2024.
SOURCE: SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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