Oms-1 • Trusted

You’ve survived the MCAT, the application cycle, and the white coat ceremony. Now, you are officially an OMS-1 (Osteopathic Medical Student, Year 1). Congratulations—and welcome to the firehose.

But you are also going to feel the rush of identifying a structure no one else could find. You are going to palpate a C7 transverse process and realize you just fixed your friend's headache. You are going to look at your white coat in the closet and realize that the person inside that coat is finally becoming a doctor. You’ve survived the MCAT, the application cycle, and

Wear clothes you are willing to throw away. The formalin smell will never fully wash out. You’ve survived the MCAT