Medical school to open in Lebanon, Oregon


The College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Northwest is opening in Lebanon this week, Oregon’s first medical school in over a century. 

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The College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Northwest is opening in Lebanon this week, Oregon’s first medical school in over a century.

The College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Northwest, has attracted 107 students willing to place their faith – and $47,000 a year – in a brand-new school. An expansion of a California-based college, COMP-Northwest offers a way into medicine to students drawn to the region and for whom Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine may be a poor fit. 

It’s an economic boon for this former lumber town, and the school also will help tackle a growing problem in health care: not enough doctors. “We have such a huge shortage of physicians, in primary care especially,” says state Sen. Alan Bates, D-Medford, an osteopathic doctor.

Read more at OregonLive.com.

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