USMLE & COMLEX Tutor in New York

New York has fifteen MD schools and three DO colleges, from Columbia (1767), the oldest, to D'Youville University's osteopathic college in Buffalo (2026), the newest (school list). Seven of the MD schools are in New York City; the rest are in Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Valhalla, Stony Brook, Mineola and Hempstead.

The schools draw on very different pools. In 2025-26, 91.4% of the entering class at Buffalo's Jacobs School and 86.5% at Stony Brook came from New York, against 11.6% at Columbia and 21.2% at NYU Grossman, whose 99 first-year places drew 8,385 applications (AAMC FACTS). Whichever school you attend, the licensing rules below are the same, and so is the tutor team.

Medical schools in New York

Several of these schools teach students at more than one site: State University of New York Upstate Medical University Norton College of Medicine also lists Binghamton, New York; New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine also lists Jonesboro, Arkansas; Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine also lists Middletown, Orange County, New York, Great Falls, Montana.

Schools based in other states also teach in New York: Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (DO, based in Erie, Pennsylvania) lists a campus at Elmira. 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 New York by city

• New York: Mount Sinai Hospital; Mount Sinai St. Lukes Roosevelt Hosp; New York Downtown Hospital; New York Eye and Ear Infirmary; New York Presbyterian Hospital; Lenox Hill Hospital; Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases; Mount Sinai Health System-Beth Israel; Metropolitan Hospital Center; Bellevue Hospital Center; NYU Langone Hospitals; Harlem Hospital Center; Hospital for Special Surgery; Henry J. Carter; New York P.I.
• Brooklyn: NY Community Hospital of Brooklyn; The Brooklyn Hospital Center; Maimonides Medical Center; NYC Health + Hospitals / South Brooklyn; Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center; NYC Health+Hospital/Kings County; Wyckoff Heights Medical Center; Brookdale Hospital Medical Center; New York-Presbyterian/Brooklyn Methodist; Lutheran Medical Center; University Hospital of Brooklyn; Woodhull Hosptial Center; Interfaith Medical Center
• Bronx: Bronxcare Health System; Montefiore Medical Center; Lincoln Medical&Mental Health Center; Jacobi Medical Center; North Central Bronx; SBH Health System
• Buffalo: Kaleida Health; Sisters of Charity Hospital; Erie County Medical Center; Mercy Hospital of Buffalo; Roswell Park Cancer Institute
• Rochester: Rochester General Hospital; Highland Hospital; The Unity Hospital of Rochester; Strong Memorial Hospital; Rochester P.C.
• Syracuse: St. Josephs Hospital Health Center; Upstate Univ Hosp at Comm General; Crouse Hospital; University Hospital at Syracuse; Hutchings P.C.
• Albany: Albany Medical Center Hospital; St. Peters Hospital; Capital District P.C.
• Far Rockaway: Peninsula Hospital Center; Episcopal Health Services
• Kingston: The Kingston Hospital; HealthAlliance Hospital Marys Ave Campus
• Yonkers: St. Josephs Medical Center; St. Johns Riverside Hospital
• Binghamton: Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hosp; UHS Hospitals
• Jamaica: Jamaica Hospital Medical Center; Queens Hospital Center
• Staten Island: Richmond University Medical Center; Staten Island University Hospital
• Utica: Faxton-St. Lukes Healthcare; St. Elizabeth Medical Center
• Flushing: Newyork-Presbyterian/Queens; Flushing Hospital Medical Center
• New Hyde Park: Peconic Bay Medical Center; Long Island Jewish Medical Center
• White Plains: White Plains Hospital; Burke Rehabilitation Hospital
• Poughkeepsie: Vassar Brothers Medical Center
• East Meadow: Nassau University Medical Center
• Bay Shore: South Shore University Hospital
• Huntington: Huntington Hospital
• Rhinebeck: Northern Dutchess Hospital
• Niagara Falls: Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center
• Batavia: United Memorial Medical Center
• Mount Vernon: The Mount Vernon Hospital
• Elmira: Arnot-Ogden Medical Center
• Olean: Upper Allegheny Health System
• Nyack: Montefiore Nyack Hospital
• Manhasset: North Shore University Hospital
• Middletown: Garnet Health Medical Center

Plus 32 more New York cities on the same CMS list.

Facts about New York

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.

• NYITCOM's first-time COMLEX Level 2 pass rate for 2025-26 was 92.71%, against 92.48% nationally. (NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine)
• NYITCOM placed 97.9% of its 2025-26 graduates in residency, counting its Long Island and Arkansas campuses together. (NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine)
• New York requires graduates of New York-registered, LCME-accredited or AOA-accredited programs to complete at least one year of accredited postgraduate hospital training before a license, and graduates of any other program at least three years. (NYSED Office of the Professions)
• New York accepts Steps 1, 2 and 3 of the USMLE, or Parts I, II and III of the NBOME examinations, for physician licensure. (NYSED Office of the Professions)
• To sit USMLE Step 3, NYSED says you must have passed Step 1 and Step 2; passing portions of FLEX or NBME no longer meet that requirement. (NYSED Office of the Professions)
• New York's licensure by endorsement is closed to anyone who has failed a part of New York's licensing examination sequence and not later passed that same part. (NYSED Office of the Professions)
• Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine trains DO students at 230 West 125th Street in Harlem and in Middletown, New York, plus Great Falls, Montana, and says more than half of its graduates go into primary care. (Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine)
• In the 2025 Main Residency Match, New York programs offered 1,740 first-year internal medicine positions, the most of any specialty in the state, then pediatrics (423), surgery (402), emergency medicine (396) and psychiatry (313). (NRMP)
• Of New York's 1,740 first-year internal medicine positions in the 2025 Match, 608 went to U.S. MD seniors, 192 to DO seniors, 199 to U.S. citizen international medical graduates and 685 to non-U.S. international medical graduates. (NRMP)

Sources: LCME, directory of accredited U.S. programs (checked October 29, 2026); AAMC FACTS, Table A-1, 2025-2026 (checked October 29, 2026); NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine, outcomes (checked October 29, 2026); NYSED Office of the Professions, Physicians: License Requirements (checked November 1, 2026); Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, home page (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).

One year of residency, or three

New York's licensing office asks graduates of New York-registered, LCME-accredited or AOA-accredited programs for at least one year of accredited postgraduate hospital training before a license, and graduates of any other program for at least three (NYSED Office of the Professions). For an international medical graduate that is the difference between a license after the intern year and a license after a full internal medicine residency.

The exam requirement is the full series: USMLE Steps 1, 2 and 3, or Parts I, II and III of the NBOME examinations, which is COMLEX-USA (NYSED Office of the Professions). NYSED also restates the USMLE rule that you must have passed Step 1 and Step 2 before sitting Step 3, so a resident still carrying a Step 2 CK retake cannot move on to Step 3 (NYSED Office of the Professions).

One rule catches physicians who move: New York's licensure by endorsement is closed to anyone who has failed a part of New York's licensing examination sequence and not later passed that same part (NYSED Office of the Professions). A failed attempt does not end a New York career, but leaving it unpassed closes that route, which is one more reason we plan retakes promptly rather than letting them drift.

Internal medicine is most of the New York Match

In the 2025 Main Residency Match, New York programs offered 1,740 first-year internal medicine positions, the most of any specialty in the state, then pediatrics (423), surgery (402), emergency medicine (396) and psychiatry (313) (NRMP).

Those internal medicine positions are where New York's international graduates train: of the 1,740, 608 went to U.S. MD seniors, 192 to DO seniors, 199 to U.S. citizen international medical graduates and 685 to non-U.S. international medical graduates (NRMP). IMGs who sit Step 2 CK and Step 3 for these programs plan around the three-year training rule above.

Three years later the same residents sit the ABIM exam. Among the state's largest internal medicine programs by first-time takers in 2023-2025, NYU Grossman passed 92% of 193, the Mount Sinai Hospital program 95% of 148 and Montefiore's Moses and Weiler campuses in the Bronx 90% of 145 (ABIM).

New York's three DO colleges

New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM) is in Old Westbury on Long Island, with a second campus in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Its first-time COMLEX Level 2 pass rate for 2025-26 was 92.71%, against 92.48% nationally, and it placed 97.9% of its 2025-26 graduates in residency, counting both campuses (NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine).

Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine teaches at 230 West 125th Street in Harlem and in Middletown, New York, plus Great Falls, Montana, and says more than half of its graduates go into primary care (Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine). D'Youville University's college in Buffalo, founded in 2026, is the newest school in the state (school list).

All three lead to COMLEX Level 1, Level 2-CE and Level 3, and New York licenses DOs on those scores. Students at all three who are aiming at New York internal medicine programs, where US MD seniors filled about a third of 2025 places (NRMP 2025 Main Residency Match), often add Step 2 CK; our COMLEX Level 2 vs Step 2 CK comparison covers that choice.

Which board exams New York students take

Students at New York's fifteen MD schools take the USMLE: Step 1 (pass/fail since January 26, 2022), Step 2 CK and Step 3 in residency (USMLE). Between them sit the NBME shelf exams that close each clerkship, and when they fall depends on the school: Stony Brook, for one, puts Step 1 after the clerkship year (our Stony Brook page).

Students at NYITCOM, Touro and D'Youville take COMLEX-USA from the NBOME (NBOME).

New York licensing rules that affect your exam plan

New York's board sets no limit of its own on USMLE or COMLEX attempts and no time limit for finishing them, and asks 1 year of training before a first license for domestic graduates and 3 for international graduates (FSMB). The USMLE program's own cap of four attempts per Step still applies (USMLE eligibility rules).

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

What New York's rules mean for how you study

• No state cap does not mean unlimited sittings: the USMLE program stops at four per Step, and every attempt shows on your transcript, so sit when practice scores say you are ready (USMLE eligibility rules).
• IMGs: count three years of residency before a New York license, not one (NYSED Office of the Professions).
• Pass Step 2 CK before you plan a Step 3 date; NYSED repeats the rule that Step 3 needs both earlier Steps passed (NYSED Office of the Professions).
• If you ever fail a part, close it out with a pass: an unpassed failure blocks New York licensure by endorsement later (NYSED Office of the Professions).

Many New York students rotate, interview or match next door. New York's neighbors on our list: Connecticut (3 MD, 0 DO), Massachusetts (4 MD, 0 DO), New Jersey (4 MD, 1 DO), Pennsylvania (7 MD, 3 DO), Vermont (1 MD, 0 DO).

How much New York searches for board prep

Over five years New York ranks 2nd of 51 for “USMLE” and for “USMLE Step 1”, 4th for “USMLE Step 2”, 11th for “shelf exam” and 20th for “COMLEX” (Google Trends, United States, October 2021 to October 2026). The tilt toward the USMLE matches a state with fifteen MD schools to three DO colleges, and probably the many international graduates who sit the USMLE to train here.

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