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DUBOIS – A historic clinical agreement between Penn Highlands and the Indiana University of Pennsylvania will begin the steps to establish a College of Osteopathic Medicine locally.
According to those with IUP, a majority of the state is in a healthcare drought, without enough primary care physicians to deal with everyone’s daily needs.
To combat this, the two facilities are partnering to establish a College of Osteopathic Medicine to train future doctors for rural Pennsylvania.
“We are in the process of accreditation of a three phase process, we are in phase one,“ explained Miko Rose, Founding Dean of IUP. “We are working on our applications for phase two, so in the next couple months stay tuned. We will hopefully be moseying from the first to second phase.”
In the end, both facilities believe that this will lead to more physicians staying in our area after their schooling.
Penn Highlands marks the 10th agreement made between IUP and other facilities.
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