USMLE & COMLEX Tutor in Utah

Utah's school table has two entries: the University of Utah School of Medicine (public, MD, founded 1905) in Salt Lake City and Noorda College of Osteopathic Medicine (private, DO, founded 2019) in Provo (school list). Brigham Young University School of Medicine, also in Provo, holds preliminary LCME accreditation (2026), a new school's step before full accreditation (LCME).

The University of Utah's school, listed by LCME and AAMC as the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, received 3,085 applications for 125 first-year places in 2025-26, and 72.8% of its entering class came from Utah (AAMC FACTS, Table A-1). The CMS list counts 10 teaching hospitals in Utah, six of them in Salt Lake City (CMS teaching hospital list).

Medical schools in Utah

Schools based in other states also teach in Utah: Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine (DO, based in Parker, Colorado) lists a campus at Ivins. DO students on that campus take COMLEX-USA.

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

Teaching hospitals in Utah by city

• Salt Lake City: Salt Lake Regional Medical Center; LDS Hospital; U of U Hospitals & Clinics; St. Marks Hospital; Primary Childrens Hospital; U of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute
• Provo: Utah Valley Hospital
• Ogden: Mckay-Dee Hospital
• Murray: Intermountain Medical Center
• Draper: Lone Peak Hospital

Facts about Utah

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.

• At the University of Utah's Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, each first-year student joins one of six houses for all four years, and clinical work begins in year one, with one to two half days a week in student-led clinics. (Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine)
• Every new Utah MD student starts with SCoPE (Skills, Community, and Professional Exploration), a six-week introductory course in clinical skills, talking with patients and finding help. (Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine)
• The Utah school's longitudinal integrated clerkships replace traditional block rotations: students rotate among specialties and preceptors day by day, and preceptors typically work with a student a few times a month over 11 months. (Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine)
• Phase 3 of the Utah MD, the post-clerkship years, includes four-week rotations in brain and behavior, advanced medicine or surgery, critical care and a core sub-internship, two weeks of emergency medicine, and at least 26 elective credits, with 24 weeks set aside in Phase 3. (Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine)
• Brigham Young University's School of Medicine in Provo says its preliminary LCME accreditation authorizes it to recruit and admit students, and that it will welcome its first students in July 2027. (BYU School of Medicine)
• Rocky Vista University's Utah campus sits just outside St. George; its DO program is four years, two of preclinical study on campus built around case-based learning, then two of clinical education. (Rocky Vista University)
• In the 2025 Main Residency Match, programs in Utah offered 239 residency positions in 26 specialties, the most in internal medicine (41), family medicine (33), and pediatrics (23). (NRMP)

Sources: LCME, directory of accredited U.S. programs (checked October 29, 2026); AAMC FACTS, Table A-1, 2025-2026 (checked October 29, 2026); Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, Mission-Driven MD Program (checked November 1, 2026); Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (checked November 1, 2026); Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, Core Courses (checked November 1, 2026); BYU School of Medicine, Admissions (checked November 1, 2026); Rocky Vista University, Utah campus (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).

How the University of Utah schedules clinical training

The University of Utah puts students in front of patients early. Clinical work starts in year one, one to two half days a week in student-led clinics, and each first-year student is placed in one of six houses that last all four years (Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine). The first weeks are SCoPE, a six-week course in clinical skills, talking with patients and knowing where to get help.

Clerkships are not run as blocks. In the school's longitudinal integrated clerkships a student might spend Monday in pediatrics, Tuesday in OB/GYN and Wednesday in surgery, and preceptors see the student a few times a month over 11 months (longitudinal clerkships). Several subjects therefore run side by side, and shelf exam review has to rotate with them: a short weekly question set in each discipline holds up better than cramming one subject at the end of a block that does not exist.

Phase 3, the post-clerkship years, adds four-week rotations in brain and behavior, critical care and a core sub-internship, two weeks of emergency medicine and at least 26 elective credits (core courses). Step 2 CK has to fit around those rotations. The curriculum pages we read give no date for Step 1 or Step 2, so ask the curriculum office when it expects you to test before you block out dedicated weeks.

BYU and Rocky Vista: the newer Utah programs

Brigham Young University's School of Medicine in Provo holds preliminary LCME accreditation, which it says lets it recruit and admit students, and it plans to welcome its first class in July 2027 (BYU School of Medicine). Those students will sit the USMLE like Salt Lake City's, and if they license in Utah they meet the same three-attempt cap (FSMB).

In the south of the state, Rocky Vista University's campus just outside St. George teaches the DO over four years: two preclinical years on campus built around case-based learning, then two years of clinical education (Rocky Vista University). COMLEX Level 1 preparation belongs in the campus years, while the class is still in one place; once clinical education spreads students across sites, a fixed weekly session is the easier way to keep Level 2-CE work going.

Which board exams Utah students take

Students at the University of Utah School of Medicine sit the USMLE: Step 1, Step 2 CK, then Step 3 after graduation (USMLE). LCME has accredited the school since before 1942, with its next full survey due in 2027-28 (LCME).

Noorda College of Osteopathic Medicine in Provo grants the DO, so its students sit COMLEX-USA: Level 1, Level 2-CE and Level 3 (NBOME). DO students on the Ivins campus of Rocky Vista University's college, which is based in Parker, Colorado, take the same series (school list).

Utah's internal medicine residents finish with ABIM's exam. In Salt Lake City, 98% of 94 first-time takers from the University of Utah Health program passed it in 2023-2025 (ABIM).

Utah licensing rules that affect your exam plan

Utah's FSMB entry sets both a cap and a clock. It lists one year of training before a first license (two for international graduates) and three attempts at each USMLE Step or COMLEX Level (FSMB). It gives seven years to complete the exams, ten for MD/PhD and DO/PhD candidates (FSMB).

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

What Utah's rules mean for how you study

• Utah allows three attempts at each USMLE Step or COMLEX Level, one fewer than the USMLE program's four, so plan around three and ask the board how it treats a fourth sitting (FSMB, USMLE eligibility rules).
• Utah gives seven years to complete the USMLE or COMLEX, and FSMB's line reads “7 years+”, so ask the board what the plus adds and when the clock starts before you plan a research year or leave (FSMB).
• MD/PhD and DO/PhD candidates get ten years instead of seven, which gives a combined-degree student three more years to place the exams around research (FSMB).
• International graduates need two years of postgraduate training before a first Utah license, against one year for other graduates, so an IMG should expect the license a year later (FSMB).

Many Utah students rotate, interview or match next door. Utah's neighbors on our list: Arizona (2 MD, 2 DO), Colorado (1 MD, 1 DO), Idaho (0 MD, 1 DO), Nevada (3 MD, 1 DO), New Mexico (1 MD, 1 DO), Wyoming (0 MD, 0 DO).

How much Utah searches for board prep

Utah's searches lean away from the USMLE label. Over the five years to October 2026 it ranks 40th of 51 for “USMLE”, 31st for “USMLE Step 1” and 32nd for “USMLE Step 2”, but 13th for “COMLEX” and 11th for “shelf exam” (Google Trends).

With a DO college in Provo and a Rocky Vista campus at Ivins against a single MD school on the list (school list), the tilt toward COMLEX fits the map.

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