[9] This class graduated in May 2022[10] and went on to have a 100% residency match rate,[11] leading to ICOM's elevation to full accreditation status by COCA.
[12] Located in Meridian, Idaho, the three-story, 94,000-square-foot facility cost $34 million, and took Engineered Structures, Inc. (ESI) just thirteen months to build.
There, ICOM's first-year and second-year medical students perform whole-body dissections on donated bodies, also known as cadavers.
This is a four-year degree with years 1 and 2 consisting of on-campus didactic lectures, small group assignments laboratory and clinical experiences.
[16] Students can pursue research in basic science, medical education, osteopathic principles and practice, and underserved and rural medicine in collaboration with ICOM faculty.
Areas of focus include: Osteopathic principles and practice; Medical education; Rural and underserved medicine; Obesity, Diabetes, and Cardiometabolic Syndrome; Cellular bioenergetics, free radicals and oxidative stress, muscle biology, cancer, diabetes; Neuroinflammation, gene regulation, cell motility in the central nervous system (CNS), CNS histology; Studies of mosquito gene expression and protein secretion.