USMLE & COMLEX Tutor in Loma Linda

Loma Linda University School of Medicine (MD, founded 1909, private) is the town's only medical school, and its main campus is here (school list). Loma Linda University Medical Center is the town's one hospital on the CMS teaching list. Five more teaching hospitals sit in the same ZIP region, in Fontana, Colton, Victorville, Moreno Valley and Redlands (CMS teaching hospital list).

Loma Linda's school has been LCME-accredited since before 1942 and is due its next full survey in 2031-32 (LCME). In 2025-26 Loma Linda University School of Medicine received 5,642 applications for 176 first-year places, and 44.3% of its entering class came from California, so more than half came from outside the state (AAMC FACTS).

Facts about Loma Linda

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.

• Loma Linda's first two years run a Foundations block and then 7 organ-system blocks, ending with multisystem application, alongside longitudinal courses in Christian Physician Formation and Clinical Skills Development. (Loma Linda University School of Medicine)
• Loma Linda's clerkship years take place mainly at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Jerry L. Pettis Memorial VA Medical Center, Riverside County Regional Medical Center and White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles. (Loma Linda University School of Medicine)
• Loma Linda students can spend their third and fourth years at a regional campus, AdventHealth Orlando in Florida or Kettering Health in Dayton, Ohio; the choice is binding and depends on good standing and being on target to pass Step 1. (Loma Linda University School of Medicine)
• For the 2026 entering class, Loma Linda reports an average total MCAT of 510, a cumulative GPA of 3.85 and a science (BCPM) GPA of 3.80. (Loma Linda University School of Medicine)
• Loma Linda wants the MCAT taken no later than September of the year before matriculation and does not consider scores more than three years old; its AMCAS deadline is November 2 and its secondary deadline November 16. (Loma Linda University School of Medicine)

Sources: LCME, directory of accredited U.S. programs (checked October 29, 2026); AAMC FACTS, Table A-1, 2025-2026 (checked October 29, 2026); Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Curriculum and Academic Calendar (checked November 1, 2026); Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Regional Campuses (checked November 1, 2026); Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Selection Criteria (checked November 1, 2026); Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Admission Requirements and Application Process (checked November 1, 2026); ABIM, residency program pass rates 2023-2025 (checked October 29, 2026).

Step 1 is the door to the junior year

The first two years run a Foundations block and then 7 organ-system blocks, ending with multisystem application, alongside longitudinal courses in Christian Physician Formation and Clinical Skills Development (Loma Linda curriculum). Because a Step 1 pass is the condition for promotion to the junior year, the exam sits between the student and the clerkships rather than somewhere in the middle of them.

It also decides where those clerkships happen. Students can spend their third and fourth years at a regional campus, AdventHealth Orlando in Florida or Kettering Health in Dayton, Ohio, but the choice is binding and depends on good standing and being on target to pass Step 1 (Loma Linda regional campuses).

So we start Loma Linda Step 1 work early and quietly: a short question-bank habit during the organ-system blocks, matched to the block in front of the student, then a dedicated period built from a first NBME score. A student aiming at Orlando or Dayton gets the same plan with less slack in it.

Clerkships from Loma Linda to Los Angeles, Orlando and Dayton

The clerkship years take place mainly at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Jerry L. Pettis Memorial VA Medical Center, Riverside County Regional Medical Center and White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles (Loma Linda curriculum). Each core rotation ends with an NBME shelf exam, and the regional-campus students sit the same exams from Florida or Ohio.

That spread is why our sessions are online: a student on a Los Angeles rotation, one at the VA and one in Dayton can each keep the same tutor and the same schedule through the year, and move from shelf review to Step 2 CK without starting over.

Applying to Loma Linda

For the 2026 entering class, Loma Linda reports an average total MCAT of 510, a cumulative GPA of 3.85 and a science (BCPM) GPA of 3.80 (Loma Linda selection criteria). It wants the MCAT taken no later than September of the year before matriculation and does not consider scores more than three years old; the AMCAS deadline is November 2 and the secondary deadline November 16 (Loma Linda admissions).

Pre-med students working toward those numbers can use our MCAT tutoring, with the same one-on-one format.

Medical school in Loma Linda

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

Teaching hospitals in Loma Linda

On the CMS teaching hospital list (October 2026):

• Loma Linda University Medical Center, 11234 Anderson Street, Loma Linda, CA 92354

Other teaching hospitals near Loma Linda

The same CMS list has five more teaching hospitals in the Loma Linda ZIP region, useful for electives and away rotations: KFH - Fontana (Fontana); Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (Colton); Desert Valley Hospital INC. (Victorville); KFH - Moreno Valley (Moreno Valley); LLU Behavioral Medicine Center (Redlands).

The exams Loma Linda students take, in order

Loma Linda has one school and one degree, so every student here takes the USMLE. Step 1 closes the preclinical years: Loma Linda students must pass it to be promoted to the junior year (Loma Linda curriculum), and it has been reported pass/fail since January 26, 2022. Shelf exams follow each core clerkship, then Step 2 CK and, in residency, Step 3.

With Step 1 now pass/fail, Step 2 CK is the exam that gives residency programs a score to compare for Loma Linda applicants. In 2023-2025, 82% of 92 first-time takers from the Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium program passed ABIM's internal medicine exam (ABIM).

California board rules for Loma Linda graduates

The FSMB summary for California's medical board names one attempt limit: four attempts at USMLE Step 3 (FSMB). Step 3 comes during residency, so a Loma Linda graduate who stays in California meets that limit there, not at the school.

Steps 1 and 2 CK fall under the USMLE program's own limit of four attempts per Step (USMLE eligibility rules), so California's four at Step 3 matches that limit rather than tightening it.

How much Loma Linda searches for board prep

Google Trends ranks Loma Linda number 1 among US cities for the share of searches about “USMLE” over the past five years, with a score of 100 out of 100, the top of the scale. The ranking compares each city's own searches, so first place does not mean the most students: it means USMLE takes a bigger share of what Loma Linda searches for than of any other ranked city.

• “USMLE”: number 1 among US cities, score 100 of 100