USMLE & COMLEX Tutor in Maine

Maine has no MD-granting school and one DO school, the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, private and founded in 1978 (school list). The school list still gives UNE's Biddeford address, but the college now teaches on UNE's Portland Campus, in the four-story Harold and Bibby Alfond Center for Health Sciences (UNE COM). Of the 169 students in its class of 2026, 166 were placed in graduate medical education, a 98% placement rate (UNE COM outcomes).

MD students can train in Maine through the Maine Track of Tufts University School of Medicine. They spend most of the first year in Boston, then move to Maine at the start of the second year and stay for most of medical school (Tufts Maine Track). MaineHealth reports 37 graduates in the 2026 Maine Track class, 516 physicians through the program in all, and 104 graduates who finished training and now practice in Maine (MaineHealth).

Medical schools in Maine

Schools based in other states also teach in Maine: Tufts University School of Medicine (MD, based in Boston, Massachusetts) lists a campus at Portland.

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

Teaching hospitals in Maine by city

• Portland: Maine Medical Center
• Biddeford: Southern Maine Health Care
• Lewiston: Central Maine Medical Center
• Bangor: Eastern Maine Medical Center
• Augusta: Mainegeneral Medical Center

Facts about Maine

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

• The University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine reports a 95.5% first-time pass rate on COMLEX Level 2-CE for June 2025 to April 2026, against 92.5% nationally. (University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine)
• UNE COM's first-time pass rate on COMLEX Level 1 was 95.1% for May 2024 to April 2025, against 90.3% nationally. (University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine)
• UNE COM reports a 97.6% pass rate on COMLEX Level 3 for 2025, across 169 students. (University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine)
• Of the 169 students in UNE COM's class of 2026, 166 were placed in graduate medical education, a 98% placement rate. (University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine)
• Tufts University School of Medicine's Maine Track students spend most of their first year in Boston, then move to Maine at the start of their second year and stay for most of medical school; Maine Track applicants interview at Maine Medical Center in Portland. (Tufts University School of Medicine)
• MaineHealth reports 37 graduates in the 2026 Maine Track class; with them, 516 physicians have completed the program, and 104 Maine Track graduates who have finished training practice in Maine. (MaineHealth)
• UNE COM students study on the University of New England's Portland Campus, where the four-story Harold and Bibby Alfond Center for Health Sciences holds a 240-seat lecture hall, 20 exam rooms for patient simulations and a donor lab with 50 dissection tables. (University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine)
• UNE COM is one of fewer than 30% of medical schools to offer a Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship, in which a third-year student keeps a patient panel in a primary care clinic for the year instead of rotating through six-week blocks. (University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine)
• UNE COM requires the DO to be completed within 6 years of matriculation. (University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine)
• UNE COM assigns each third-year student to one of 12 clinical sites in the Northeast for core rotations: 12 weeks of internal medicine and 6 weeks each of surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, family practice and psychiatry. (University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine)
• The third and fourth years at UNE COM hold 82 weeks of required rotations, among them 24 weeks of electives and a 4-week osteopathic manipulative medicine selective that must be taken in year four. (University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine)
• UNE COM's Dirigo Scholar Track, for Maine students headed for rural medicine, spends the third year at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, whose patients come from communities holding more than 40% of the state's population, and carries the Doctors for Maine's Future Scholarship from the Finance Authority of Maine. (University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine)
• UNE COM sets no minimum MCAT score but says highly competitive applicants typically score in the 50th percentile or higher, and it keeps no quotas for Maine or New England students. (University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine)
• In the 2025 Main Residency Match, programs in Maine offered 115 residency positions in 13 specialties, the most in family medicine (35), internal medicine (17), and psychiatry (11). (NRMP)

Sources: University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, outcomes (checked October 29, 2026); Tufts University School of Medicine, Maine Track MD Program (checked October 29, 2026); MaineHealth, Maine Track Class of 2026 (checked October 29, 2026); University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (checked November 1, 2026); University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, Clerkship (checked November 1, 2026); University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, Dirigo Scholar Track (checked November 1, 2026); University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, Admissions criteria and procedures (checked November 1, 2026); NRMP, 2025 Main Residency Match by state and specialty (checked October 29, 2026); ABIM, residency program pass rates 2023-2025 (checked October 29, 2026).

Third year at UNE COM: 12 sites and a 12-week medicine block

UNE COM sends each third-year student to one of 12 clinical sites across the Northeast, and the core year there is weighted toward internal medicine: 12 weeks of it, against 6 weeks each of surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, family practice and psychiatry (UNE COM clerkship). Twelve weeks of medicine is twice the length of any other core block, so it carries the most material to hold at once.

Across the third and fourth years the college requires 82 weeks of rotations, including 24 weeks of electives and selectives in internal medicine, surgery, emergency medicine and osteopathic manipulative medicine; the OMM selective has to wait for year four (UNE COM clerkship). The school builds a few weeks of unassigned time into that schedule and names boards preparation as one use for it, a natural home for dedicated COMLEX Level 2-CE study.

Some students skip the block model entirely. UNE COM offers a Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship, which the school says fewer than 30% of medical schools do: the student keeps a patient panel in one primary care clinic all year and learns the specialties on non-clinic days (UNE COM). LIC students meet every discipline in parallel, so we plan an LIC year as one long review rather than six separate sprints.

Rural Maine: the Dirigo track and the Maine Track

UNE COM's Dirigo Scholar Track is built for Maine students who want rural practice. Scholars spend the third year at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, the hospital for communities that hold more than 40% of the state's population, and receive the Doctors for Maine's Future Scholarship through the Finance Authority of Maine (Dirigo Scholar Track). Dirigo scholars know their Bangor assignment from the first year, so we can map their third-year exams and a Level 2-CE window well ahead.

The MD route runs the other way: Tufts Maine Track students start in Boston and move to Maine at the start of the second year, with interviews held at Maine Medical Center in Portland (Tufts Maine Track). They sit the USMLE rather than COMLEX, so a Maine Track student and a UNE student training in the same hospital can be preparing for different exams in the same month.

UNE COM sets no minimum MCAT and holds no seats back for Maine or New England residents; it says competitive applicants usually score at the 50th percentile or above (UNE COM admissions). The college also expects the DO to be finished within 6 years of matriculation, a limit worth knowing before planning a research year (UNE COM).

Which board exams Maine students take

UNE COM grants the DO, so its students take COMLEX-USA (NBOME): Level 1, Level 2-CE and Level 3. The school reports first-time pass rates of 95.1% on Level 1 (May 2024 to April 2025, against 90.3% nationally) and 95.5% on Level 2-CE (June 2025 to April 2026, against 92.5%) (UNE COM outcomes). Its Level 3 pass rate for 2025 was 97.6%, across 169 students (UNE COM outcomes).

Tufts is an MD school, so Maine Track students take the USMLE: Step 1, Step 2 CK and Step 3 (USMLE).

Maine's programs offered 115 residency positions in 13 specialties in the 2025 Match, the most in family medicine (35), internal medicine (17) and psychiatry (11) (NRMP). In Portland, 95% of the 39 first-time takers from the MaineHealth program passed ABIM's exam in 2023-2025, and 100% of the 12 from its combined medicine-pediatrics track, a count under 25 that ABIM says to read with caution (ABIM).

Maine licensing rules that affect your exam plan

Maine's medical board caps only USMLE Step 3, at three attempts, and allows seven years to finish the exam sequence (FSMB). Its separate osteopathic board lists three attempts at each Step/Level and no time limit on COMLEX (FSMB).

Maine Medical board

Maine Osteopathic board

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

What Maine's rules mean for how you study

• Maine's medical board lists a cap only for Step 3: three attempts, with a fourth needing a request for a waiver (FSMB). Steps 1 and 2 CK answer to the USMLE program's four attempts per Step (USMLE eligibility rules).
• The seven-year window covers the whole exam sequence (NBME, USMLE and FLEX), and more than seven years needs a waiver (FSMB). The entry names no start date, so ask the board before a research year or leave of absence.
• Osteopathic graduates plan against a different entry: three attempts at each Step/Level and no time limit on COMLEX, so a late Level 3 starts no clock, but each Level has its own cap of three (FSMB).
• Training before a first license splits by board: 3 years of ACGME-accredited training for US and Canadian graduates after July 1, 2004 and for IMGs, against 1 year in an AOA-approved program for osteopathic licenses (FSMB).

Many Maine students rotate, interview or match next door. Maine's neighbors on our list: New Hampshire (1 MD, 0 DO).

How much Maine searches for board prep

Relative to other states, Maine searches noticeably more for COMLEX than for the USMLE. It ranks 13th of 51 (the 50 states plus DC) for “COMLEX”, against 31st for “USMLE Step 1”, 36th for “USMLE”, 46th for “USMLE Step 2” and 49th for “Shelf exam” (Google Trends, October 2021 to October 2026). The lopsided pattern fits a state whose one in-state school grants the DO.

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