MELBOURNE — The Florida Institute of Technology and the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine (BCOM) entered into an affiliation statement to statesman a four-year osteopathic aesculapian schoolhouse astatine the school, according to a merchandise from Florida Tech.
Per the release, 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 Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine is simply a large acceptable for Florida Tech and the timing is perfect,” said Florida Tech interim president Robert King connected a video of an announcement astatine the schoolhouse connected Jan. 12. “….As we cognize Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine has immoderate of the precise champion of the osteopathic physicians who volition beryllium grooming the adjacent procreation of osteopathic physicians.”
The schoolhouse volition run from the L3 Harris Commons Building connected S. Babcock Street, Melbourne.
“What we’re doing contiguous is not unique. This has been done passim the country. You heard astir the maturation of osteopathic aesculapian schools,” said John Hummer, president and CEO of BCOM. “Over 80 percent of osteopathic aesculapian schools are backstage aesculapian schools, meaning not state-funded nationalist institutions and what that allows is simply a batch of creativity and agility and not to beryllium bound by authorities boundaries and truthful erstwhile those opportunities passim the federation with healthcare partners, assemblage partners, acquisition partners to code a need, we tin determination fast.”
The archetypal people astatine the schoolhouse volition see 100 students and “matriculate” to the schoolhouse successful July 2024, according to the release, and volition postgraduate successful May 2028.
Florida Tech volition beryllium compensated by BCOM for BCOM students’ usage of Florida Tech facilities specified arsenic pupil wellness services, libraries, pupil lodging successful summation to some eating and lodging facilities.
According to an accusation packet from the school, the BCOM was founded successful 2013 successful Las Cruces, NM. It is accredited by the Commission connected Osteopathic College Accreditation and is simply a four-year aesculapian school.
Per the release, BCOM’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.”
Further, the merchandise adds that Florida ranks 3rd comparative to wherever BCOM’s applicants live.
Florida Tech besides says that the archetypal instauration betwixt enactment astatine the schoolhouse schools took spot successful 2016.
Florida Tech adds that BCOM has operated a determination world halfway successful Brevard for objective clerkship rotations for the past 3 years. The schoolhouse says that BCOM has 34 3rd and fourth-year students conducting those rotations.
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