USMLE & COMLEX Tutor in Indiana

Both of Indiana's medical schools are in Indianapolis: Indiana University School of Medicine (MD, founded 1903, public) and Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine (DO, founded 2010, private) (school list). So board prep runs on two tracks here, USMLE for Indiana University's students and COMLEX-USA for Marian's. The IU school also lists teaching sites in Gary, Notre Dame, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Muncie, Terre Haute, West Lafayette and Bloomington.

In 2025-26, Indiana University School of Medicine received 7,822 applications for 366 first-year places, and 86.6% of its entering class came from Indiana (AAMC FACTS). Clerkships happen in the 31 Indiana teaching hospitals on the CMS list, nine of them in Indianapolis (CMS teaching hospital list).

Medical schools in Indiana

Several of these schools teach students at more than one site: Indiana University School of Medicine also lists Gary, Indiana, Notre Dame, Indiana, Evansville, Indiana, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Muncie, Indiana, Terre Haute, Indiana, West Lafayette, Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana.

School list: LCME and COCA accreditation lists, via the list of medical schools in the United States, checked October 2026.

Teaching hospitals in Indiana by city

• Indianapolis: Eskenazi Health; Indiana University Health; Community Health Network INC.; Ascension St. Vincent Hospital; Community Hospital South; Indiana Heart Hospital; Franciscan Health Indianapolis; Community Hospital of Indiana INC.; Fairbanks
• Fort Wayne: Parkview Hospital; Lutheran Downtown Hospital
• Evansville: Deaconess Hospital; Ascension St. Vincent Evansville
• Gary: Methodist Hospitals INC
• Hammond: Franciscan Health Hammond
• Jeffersonville: Clark Memorial Hospital
• Mishawaka: St. Josephs Reg Med Center S. Bend
• Ft Wayne: Lutheran Hospital of Indiana
• Terre Haute: Union Hospital INC.
• Beech Grove: St. Francis Hospital & Health Center
• Valparaiso: Porter Regional Hospital
• Vincennes: Good Samaritan Hospital
• Richmond: Reid Hospital & Health Care Services
• Mooresville: Franciscan Health Mooresville
• South Bend: Memorial Hospital of South Bend INC
• Muncie: Ball Memorial Hospital
• Dyer: Franciscan Health- Dyer
• Anderson: Community Hospital Anderson
• Jasper: Memorial Hosp & Health Care Ctr
• Crown Point: Franciscan Health Crown Point
• Lafayette: IU Health Arnett Hospital

Facts about Indiana

Accreditation: LCME directory; applications, places and in-state share: AAMC FACTS, Table A-1.

ABIM internal medicine certification exam by residency program: ABIM residency program pass rates; ABIM says to read rates from under 25 takers with caution.

• Indiana University School of Medicine calls its MD program the largest in the United States, taught on nine campuses in Indiana with more than 400 clinical partner education sites statewide. (IU School of Medicine)
• For its Class of 2030, IU School of Medicine reports 6,961 MD applicants and 370 first-year medical students, and 1,484 MD students enrolled across its campuses. (IU School of Medicine)
• IU's required third-year clerkships run eight weeks each in internal medicine, pediatrics and surgery and four weeks each in family medicine, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology and psychiatry, plus a two-week clinical course in anesthesia. (IU School of Medicine)
• Marian University's Wood College of Osteopathic Medicine (MU-WCOM) reports a 95.45% first-time pass rate on COMLEX Level 1 for 2025-26, against 90.19% nationally. (Marian University Wood College of Osteopathic Medicine)
• MU-WCOM's first-time pass rate on COMLEX Level 2-CE was 95.39% for 2025-26, against 92.48% nationally, and its graduates passed Level 3 at 98.66% in 2025, against 97.08%. (Marian University Wood College of Osteopathic Medicine)
• All 148 graduates in MU-WCOM's class of 2026 were placed in residency, a 100% match rate. (Marian University Wood College of Osteopathic Medicine)

Sources: LCME, directory of accredited U.S. programs (checked October 29, 2026); AAMC FACTS, Table A-1, 2025-2026 (checked October 29, 2026); IU School of Medicine, MD Program (checked November 1, 2026); Marian University Wood College of Osteopathic Medicine, outcomes (checked November 1, 2026); ABIM, residency program pass rates 2023-2025 (checked October 29, 2026).

Nine IU campuses on one schedule

IU School of Medicine teaches the MD on nine campuses across Indiana and calls its program the largest MD program in the United States, with more than 400 clinical partner education sites statewide (IU School of Medicine). For the Class of 2030 it reports 6,961 applicants and 370 first-year students, and 1,484 MD students in all.

The school keeps the curriculum, teaching methods and block schedule the same on every campus, but each setting has its own emphasis: Gary students care for low-income patients in an urban setting, Terre Haute students learn the needs of a rural population, Evansville focuses on quality and innovation in health care, and Muncie gives especially strong exposure to primary care (IU School of Medicine).

A shared block schedule makes tutoring simpler to plan. A student in Fort Wayne or Evansville reaches each block when a student in Indianapolis does, so we build the calendar from the school's own block dates and fit question-bank work into the weeks before each exam, wherever the campus is.

IU third year: eight-week and four-week clerkships

IU's required third-year clerkships are eight weeks long in internal medicine, pediatrics and surgery and four weeks long in family medicine, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology and psychiatry; the year also holds a two-week clinical course in anesthesia, one four-week vacation and one two-week vacation (IU School of Medicine).

The four-week blocks are the ones that catch students out. A neurology, psychiatry, OB/GYN or family medicine shelf is a full NBME subject exam, but it arrives after half the time a medicine, pediatrics or surgery shelf gets. For those rotations we start the questions before day one of the block and keep the eight-week blocks for the longer review the bigger shelves need.

Residency positions in Indiana

In the 2025 Main Residency Match, Indiana programs offered 532 positions in 28 specialties. Family medicine had the most (115), just ahead of internal medicine (110), then the transitional year (56), pediatrics (37), anesthesiology at PGY-2 (30) and psychiatry (27) (NRMP, 2025 Main Residency Match results by state and specialty). Family medicine and internal medicine are each about a fifth of the state's positions.

Residents in either of those two specialties later sit a specialty board, and internists sit the ABIM certification exam, which we tutor too; the ABIM table above lists how Indiana's internal medicine programs did on it.

Which board exams Indiana students take

Indiana University School of Medicine grants the MD, so its students sit the USMLE in turn: Step 1, reported pass/fail since January 26, 2022, then Step 2 CK, and Step 3 once they have graduated (USMLE).

Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine grants the DO, so its students take COMLEX-USA, the osteopathic series from the NBOME: Level 1, Level 2-CE and Level 3.

In 2023-2025, 97% of 109 first-time takers from Indiana University's Indianapolis program passed ABIM's internal medicine exam, and 89% of 45 from Ascension St Vincent Hospital Indianapolis (ABIM).

Indiana licensing rules that affect your exam plan

Indiana's board treats the two exam series differently: for the USMLE it allows three attempts per Step and ten years to finish, and for COMLEX five attempts per Level but only seven years (FSMB). Indiana asks for one year of training before a first license, or two for international graduates (FSMB).

Source: FSMB state licensure requirements, checked October 2026; confirm with the board before relying on them.

What Indiana's rules mean for how you study

• Plan around Indiana's three attempts per USMLE Step, not the USMLE program's four, and keep our guide for students who did not pass handy in case a Step goes wrong (FSMB, USMLE eligibility rules).
• COMLEX gets five attempts per Level in Indiana but only seven years to finish, so for Marian students the clock is the number to watch, and a leave of absence deserves a plan before it starts (FSMB).
• Indiana's ten years to complete the USMLE are generous for a straight run, but a research year or a delayed Step 3 spends part of them, so set a target date for Step 3 early (FSMB).
• International graduates need two years of postgraduate training before a first Indiana license, where US graduates need one, so their exam calendar should fit around the training year as well as the test dates (FSMB).

Many Indiana students rotate, interview or match next door. Indiana's neighbors on our list: Illinois (8 MD, 2 DO), Kentucky (2 MD, 1 DO), Michigan (6 MD, 1 DO), Ohio (6 MD, 1 DO).

How much Indiana searches for board prep

Over the five years to October 2026, Google Trends ranks Indiana 28th of 51 (the 50 states plus DC) for “COMLEX” and 31st for “shelf exam”, its two best results. The three USMLE searches sit lower: “USMLE” and “USMLE Step 2” at 40th, and “USMLE Step 1” at 45th, the weakest of the five.

So Indiana's interest leans toward the osteopathic exam and the end-of-rotation subject tests, which fits a state with a DO college in Indianapolis. Even Indiana's best two sit in the lower half of the country.

Source: Google Trends, United States, past 5 years, retrieved October 2026; ranks show relative interest, not student numbers.