VCOM College Catalog and Student Handbook

ComprehensiveTesting: COMSAE Phase 2 To ensure that students achieve the medical knowledge competencies needed to begin the OMS 4 year and succeed on COMLEX Level 2 CE, VCOM requires completion of a Comprehensive Review Course at the end of the OMS 3 year. This course culminates in the COMSAE Phase 2 exam, which serves as one of the final assessments at the end of the OMS 3 year. To be eligible to be promoted to the OMS 4 year, the student must sit for COMSAE Phase 2. A passing score on COMLEX Level 1 is a prerequisite for taking COMSAE Phase 2. VCOM covers the cost of the first COMSAE Phase 2 exam that students take as the final exam of the Comprehensive Review Course. The college also pays for the second COMSAE Phase 2 exam if required for remediation. Students who have not passed COMSAE Phase 2 (by score or by remediation) and sat for COMLEX Level 2 CE prior to October 1 st of their OMS 4 year, will be temporarily withdrawn. Students who are following an Altered Degree Plan of Study are required to meet with the Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and CIFSS to be provided with the approved date of their COMSAE Phase 2 exam and deadline for sitting for COMLEX Level 2 CE (which may be different than October 1). Each year, VCOM will notify students which COMSAE forms they may purchase on their own to take as practice exams to prepare for their COMLEX Level 2 CE exam. Students must only utilize the forms specified, as the other forms are utilized as the official COMSAE and as the remediation exam if needed. NBOME logs the COMSAE exams taken, which allows VCOM to monitor the exams purchased by students to ensure that no COMSAE exams that have been taken are utilized as a remediation exam. COMSAE Phase 2: First and Second Attempt • Students who score 480 or greater on COMSAE Phase 2 will receive a “P” (Pass) grade for the Comprehensive Review Course II and will be allowed to sit for COMLEX Level 2 CE within the VCOM approved testing window. Once students pass COMSAE Phase 2 they are to continue to study until they take the COMLEX Level 2 CE during the approved testing window. • Students who score 460 – 479 on COMSAE Phase 2 will receive/maintain an “IP” (In Progress) grade for the Comprehensive Review Course II. This score range is considered a conditional pass, which indicates that the student needs to complete additional structured and monitored remediation before being released to sit for COMLEX Level 2 CE. To resolve the “IP” grade and be released to sit for COMLEX Level 2 CE, the student is required to do the following: o Meet with CIFSS to design a prescribed remediation plan, which may include attendance at a VCOM approved external immersion course. The plan includes a tentative date the student is to sit for COMLEX Level 2 CE.

 The length and details of the study plan will be based on each student’s individual progress. Students in this score range may choose to continue to follow a VCOM-directed study plan or may choose to attend an in-person external immersion program.  In order to be released to sit for COMLEX Level 2 CE, the student must score 65% or greater on all-topic, timed question sets of at least 25 questions in TrueLearn for a minimum of 2 weeks immediately prior to their scheduled COMLEX Level 2 CE exam.

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