DO Relevant Article
New Schools Will Help Alleviate Physician Workforce Shortages
With the addition of COM Mesa of AT Still University of Health Sciences, in Mesa, Arizona; the Debusk College of Osteopathic Medicine of Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tennessee; and the TOURO College of Osteopathic Medicine in New York City, a new wave of future osteopathic physicians (DOs) will be prepared to help meet the nation’s increasing health care workforce shortage.
These three schools (slated to admit their first class in Fall 2007); two additional schools in the states of Washington and Colorado (planning to open in 2008); and the growth in class sizes at the existing colleges all will help strengthen the osteopathic medical field’s ability to provide high-quality health care to patients nationwide. And with osteopathic medicine’s special focus on primary care, especially in rural and urban underserved areas, we will be able to have a greater impact on the U.S. population’s health and wellbeing.
Dr. Steve Shannon, DO, MPH, President of the Association of American Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
