Affiliation Agreement Paves Way for Proposed 2024 Opening connected Melbourne Campus
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Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine students be people connected the school's New Mexico campus.
MELBOURNE, FLA., Jan. 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Two of the nation’s starring institutions of higher acquisition volition enactment unneurotic to bring Brevard County its archetypal aesculapian school, leaders announced today.
The Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine (BCOM) and Florida Institute of Technology person entered into an affiliation statement to found a four-year osteopathic aesculapian schoolhouse connected Florida Tech’s Melbourne campus.
The announcement volition beryllium livestreamed starting astatine 11 a.m. EST.
“We are excited astir our projected caller field successful affiliation with Florida Tech. Over the past 3 years, we person operated a determination world halfway successful Brevard County for our aesculapian students’ objective clerkship rotations; 34 of our third- and fourth-year students are presently conducting these rotations,” said John L. Hummer, co-founder and president of BCOM. “Based upon the occurrence of this determination world halfway and the affirmative relationships established with cardinal stakeholders, the earthy adjacent measurement was to make an further four-year aesculapian schoolhouse determination successful Florida.”
The request for physicians is increasing rapidly successful the Sunshine State.
Florida volition beryllium abbreviated astir 18,000 physicians by 2035, according to a 2021 survey from The Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida and the Florida Hospital Association. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) reported that lone 32% of Florida’s colonisation has capable superior attraction and that astir fractional of superior attraction physicians are expected to discontinue successful the adjacent 15 to 20 years.
Additionally, successful 2021 probe into the aesculapian workforce, AAMC recovered that 47.4% of Florida-based aesculapian schoolhouse graduates practiced medicine successful Florida and 78.8% of physicians who completed some aesculapian schoolhouse and residency successful Florida remained successful the authorities to practice.
“We desperately request the adjacent procreation of highly trained physicians astir Florida and crossed our nation,” said Florida Tech Interim President Robert King. “This affiliation with the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine allows Florida Tech and its students to beryllium portion of the solution to 1 of the biggest challenges facing our nine today—ensuring capable entree to high-quality aesculapian professionals. We are excited astir the prospects.”
BCOM executed the affiliation documents to unfastened the further determination with Florida Tech successful November 2022 contingent upon last support from the college’s accrediting assemblage and authorities licensure. The inaugural people volition see 100 students and is expected to matriculate successful July 2024 and to postgraduate successful May 2028.
“We are grateful for Florida Tech’s invitation to found a mutually beneficial affiliation agreement, which is based upon a shared ngo of addressing the important doc shortage, particularly successful underserved areas,” said Dr. Bill Pieratt, dean of BCOM.
The aesculapian schoolhouse volition beryllium successful Florida Tech’s L3Harris Commons via a sublease agreement. Burrell students volition beryllium capable to usage Florida Tech's libraries, fittingness facilities, pupil wellness services and housing. The statement besides allows for collaborative probe and teaching opportunities betwixt some institutions. A captious constituent of the affiliation statement is the Medical School Pathway program, whereby Florida Tech pre-med students volition beryllium guaranteed admittance into Burrell if they conscionable the established criteria for world performance.
Marco Carvalho, Florida Tech’s enforcement vice president, provost and main operating officer, said with their occurrence successful shaping the brightest young minds with hands-on acquisition and cutting-edge technology, BCOM and Florida Tech are a logical and almighty fit.
“We are pleased to invited Burrell to our field and look guardant to the world and probe connections we volition astir surely forge,” Carvalho said.
To date, Burrell’s field successful New Mexico has graduated 430 osteopathic physicians. Of its graduates, 99.5% person been successfully placed into aesculapian and surgical residency grooming programs. Currently, Florida ranks 3rd successful the state among the states wherever Burrell's applicants reside.
Osteopathic medicine is 1 of the fastest-growing healthcare professions. According to the Osteopathic Medical Profession Report, the fig of osteopathic physicians successful the U.S. climbed to astir 135,000 successful 2021. Today, 1 successful 4 aesculapian students successful the U.S. are grooming to beryllium osteopathic physicians.
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