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Florida Tech, New Mexico College To Launch New Medical School

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Melbourne-based Florida Institute of Technology will host a medical school in partnership with a private New Mexico college.

The Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine and Florida Tech have signed an affiliation agreement which will establish a four-year osteopathic medical school in Melbourne.

Florida Tech will host the college on its campus through the sublease of roughly 40,000 square feet of space in the L3Harris Commons and share resources when it comes to library, dining and student housing.

The school, which will be Brevard County’s first college of medicine, currently is going through the accreditation process. The college plans to start with a class of 100 students in July 2024, who would graduate in May 2028.

Florida Tech Interim President Robert King told Orlando Business Journal a driving force for the affiliation was opportunities for students and faculty.

“We’ve made a significant commitment to broadening our offerings in biomedical engineering, so when this opportunity developed, this was a perfect fit for us and our students,” King said. “We have a number of students who go on to medical school and the notion if they go onto this pathway program and they can be guaranteed admission, it works for them and for Burrell.”

The partnership will allow physicians to work in Florida Tech labs on the research side, King added.

Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine operates a regional academic center in the county which has been here for three years, but only services students in their third and fourth years for medical clerkship rotations. John L. Hummer, co-founder and president of Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, said Florida is a good fit because the state provides the third-highest number of student applicants to the college each year.

“It was natural to do this to meet the need of the student body coming from Florida,” Hummer said.

Meanwhile, Florida is expected to have a shortage of 18,000 physicians by 2035, according to a 2021 study from The Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida and the Florida Hospital Association.

 

Source:  OBJ

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Florida Tech To Build $18 Mllion Health Sciences Research Center

Florida Institute of Technology will break ground in spring 2020 on a 61,000-square-foot Health Sciences Research Center that will help fill the growing demand for jobs in biomedical engineering and science and allow students and faculty to conduct critical research in labs equipped with the latest cutting-edge technologies, from virtual-dissection tables to atomic force microscopes.

The new, $18 million facility will double the size of Florida Tech’s undergraduate biomedical engineering program to 300 full-time, on-campus students, increase the size of the undergraduate premedical program from 150 to 250 students, provide over 20,000 square feet of classroom and training spaces, and allow students access to teaching laboratories that use augmented and virtual reality tools and space for orthopedics, tissue studies and advanced computational simulations.

“The excellence of a Florida Tech education and our unparalleled success in producing highly desirable graduates make this evolution on our campus and in our educational offerings a natural, powerful step forward,” said Florida Tech President Dwayne McCay.

Employment of biomedical engineers is projected to grow 4 percent from 2018 to 2028, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. The annual median wage for biomedical engineers, who are often employed in universities, industry, hospitals, research facilities, and government agencies, was $88,550 in 2018, the Bureau reported.

“Along with the demand for more sophisticated medical equipment and procedures, an increased concern for cost-effectiveness will boost demand for biomedical engineers, particularly in pharmaceutical manufacturing and related industries,” the Biomedical Engineering Society noted.

The new Health Sciences Research Center will directly support Florida Tech’s mission to provide high-quality education to a culturally diverse student body and to expand knowledge through basic and applied research.

The Center will be built on a vacant parcel of land on the south campus area known as the Olin Quad. It will be south of the Olin Life Sciences Building and adjacent to the quad’s newest buildings, the Harris Center for Assured Information, which opened in 2009.

The Center will be funded by the sale of Educational Facilities Revenue Bonds.

 

Source: Florida Tech University

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