$ 5.5 M
Institutional and external scholarship funding
that 287 students received in 2016-2017
69
institutional scholarship
programs funded 281
scholarship awards to 226
students, totaling $2.2 million.
LAUNCHING 2018
TRANSFORMING OUR CURRICULUM
The Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation approved both our
new Pathways to Health and Wellness Curriculum and the Transformative Care
Continuum in December 2016. Both PHWC and TCC, a demonstration project at
the Heritage College, Cleveland, will launch in the fall of 2018.
SERVING IN UNDERSERVED
COMMUNITIES
In May 2017, the Office of Rural and Underserved
Programs graduated the first four-year cohort from its
flagship program, the Rural and Urban Scholars Pathways
program – 18 students, with 72 percent matching to
residency training in primary care-focused specialties and
67 percent to residency training in Ohio.
$7.9M
22 STUDENTS
ENROLLED
IN DUAL DEGREE
PROGRAMS
LEADING
INTERPROFESSIONAL
TEAMS
Our Office of Rural and Underserved
Programs hosted a day of interactive
workshops for medical and other OHIO
health professions students in January
2017, presented by Andrew Morris-Singer,
M.D., a nationally acclaimed expert
on relational leadership in health care.
Morris and his team from Primary Care
Progress, a national nonprofit dedicated to
transforming primary care delivery, focused
on the theme of how young physicians can
find their voices as leaders and work to
remake health care through decentralized,
relationship-based teamwork.
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