Jacksonville University expects to unfastened its aesculapian schoolhouse successful 2026.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — It's a archetypal of its benignant instauration for the metropolis of Jacksonville. On Wednesday Jacksonville University announced that they are starting a four-year aesculapian schoolhouse successful conjunction with LECOM, which is already the largest aesculapian assemblage successful the country.
One time aft the announcement section doctors are thrilled with the anticipation of a aesculapian schoolhouse successful Jacksonville.
"A four-year aesculapian schoolhouse has been thing that we've worked hard connected for a decade," said Jacksonville University President Tim Cost during Wednesday's announcement.
There has been unthinkable maturation astatine Jacksonville University conscionable wrong the past year. The schoolhouse already announced that they're starting the city's lone instrumentality schoolhouse and present its archetypal aesculapian school. A aesculapian schoolhouse that volition spouse with astir fractional a twelve section healthcare providers.
One of those providers is Brooks Rehabilitation. First Coast News spoke with Howard Weiss, D.O., who says that a aesculapian schoolhouse successful Jacksonville volition enactment arsenic a pipeline for prime doctors to larn and enactment successful the area.
"If you spell to aesculapian schoolhouse present you're going to bash your 3rd and 4th twelvemonth externships successful section hospitals," said Dr. Weiss, "you'll person aesculapian students who volition beryllium present for 4 years, if they're not from present they'll autumn successful emotion with the archetypal coast, beingness is bully here."
Aside from Brooks Rehab, immoderate of those different hospitals wherever prospective med students volition apt bid are Baptist Health and Flagler Health, who are besides partners with LECOM and Jacksonville University's aesculapian school.
"It's astonishing to person a municipality wherever everyone would travel unneurotic to bash this," said Dr. Weiss.
Helping the assemblage was 1 of the cardinal tenets of JU's determination to commencement the med school.
"We effort to make things present astatine the assemblage that bespeak the needs," said Cost connected Wednesday.
"As the colonisation gets older we're going to request much superior attraction physicians," said Dr. Weiss.
Starting successful 2026 those physicians volition commencement people astatine Jacksonville University's aesculapian school.
"To person 1 present locally is precise meaningful for the radical of Jacksonville," said Dr. Weiss.
A metropolis that volition person its ain aesculapian schoolhouse for the archetypal clip successful history.
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