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COM Outlook . Spring 2014
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NSU-COM Statistical Highlights
teaching, research, and community health collaborations,
and a shared commitment to excellence in the education of
tomorrow’s physicians.
Area Health Education Centers Program
Since its inception in 1985,
NSU-COM’s
Area Health
Education Centers (AHEC)
Program
has received nearly
$80 million in grant and
contract awards to support
a wide range of educational,
developmental, outreach,
and research activities primarily to the medically under-
served throughout Florida.
International Medical Outreach
To expose students to the
needs of the underserved in
various countries, NSU-COM
offers several
international
medical outreach oppor-
tunities
in which students
can participate annually. In
recent years, these experi-
ences have included humanitarian medical outreach trips
to Argentina, Brazil, Bangladesh, the Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, Jamaica, Peru, and Vietnam.
Three Fulbright Specialist Scholars
Three NSU-COM faculty
members/administrators—
Drs. Leonard Levy, Naush-
ira Pandya, and Anthony J.
Silvagni—have traveled to
Slovakia as part of the
Ful-
bright Specialists Program
,
which was created in 2000 to
complement the traditional Fulbright Scholar Program and
promote linkages between U.S. academics and profession-
als and their counterparts at universities abroad.
Degree and Certificate Programs
NSU-COM currently offers the following degree and certifi-
cate programs:
Osteopathic Medicine - D.O.
;
Biomedical
Informatics - M.S.
, Graduate Certificate in Public Health
Informatics, Graduate Certificate in Medical Informatics,
M.S.N. in Nursing Informatics;
Public Health - M.P.H.
,
Graduate Certificate in Public Health, Graduate Certificate
in Health Education; and
Disaster and Emergency Pre-
paredness - M.S.
The college
also offers the following joint
and dual-degree programs:
M.S. in Medical Education
(M.S.Ed); Master of Health
Law (M.H.L.); M.B.A. in
Health Administration; Den-
tal Medicine (D.O./D.M.D.);
M.P.H./M.M.S. (Master of Medical Science in Physician As-
sistant Studies); and a pilot program in a D.O./J.D. degree.
Simulation and Virtual-World Technology
The college has eight pa-
tient simulators to provide
its students with modern
educational tools to hone
their arsenal of clinical skills.
Another teaching tool called
Second Life
is a virtual clinic
the students can access at any
time to practice clinical skills. To access the technology, the
students design avatars of themselves and
fly
to the NSU-
COM Virtual Clinic to practice on virtual patients.
Miscellaneous Facts of Interest
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According to recent figures, the college has 988 stu-
dents 4,152 graduates 247 full-time and 1,130 clinical (ad-
junct/part-time) faculty members, and 121 staff members.
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As of January 2014, the college offers 90 internship,
residency, and fellowship programs that provide 1,031
postgraduate training positions through its Consortium for
Excellence in Medical Education. This includes 283 first-
year positions, which exceeds the number of physicians the
college graduates each year.
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NSU-COM offers the only preventive medicine resi-
dency in Florida and in the osteopathic medical profession.
This residency is accredited for both M.D. (Accreditation
Council for Graduate Medical Education) and D.O. (Ameri-
can Osteopathic Association) graduates.
