Medical School Updates 12.6.20
Two new campuses expected for Charlotte, NC. Prior to this, Charlotte was the largest city in the US without a four year medical campus.
UNC School of Medicine will be opening a branch campus at Presbyterian Medical Center in Charlotte in partnership with Novant health system that will be called the UNC School of Medicine Charlotte Campus. Atrium Health is one of the most comprehensive public, not-for-profit healthcare systems in the nation. This is an optional campus for third and fourth year clinical rotations. The UNC School of Medicine had previously trained students through a branch campus in Charlotte under a partnership with Atrium Health. The attempt to merge with Atrium fell through in March 2018 and they have since combined with Wake Forest Baptist Health (see below). All MS1 students will have the opportunity to rank each program (Central, Asheville, Wilmington, or Charlotte) 1st through 4th choice according to where you wish to spend your 3rd year Application Phase and will be assigned by the Dean.
Wake Forest School of Medicine is also establishing a campus in Charlotte. Atrium's and Wake Forest Baptist Health's plans to bring a four-year medical school to Charlotte. Atrium, Wake Forest Baptist and Wake Forest School of Medicine solidified their strategic combination in October 2020. The partnership brings Wake Forest under the Atrium name and would create a second School of Medicine campus in Charlotte. The proposed school would support about 3,500 students each year, including Wake Forest School of Medicine and local residents, fellows and nursing students. There would be more than 100 specialized programs.
New medical school campus slated for Temple, Texas associated with Baylor College of Medicine. The campus is slated to open fall 2023 with a starting class of 40 medical students.
The first tribally affiliated medical school in the United States, it is an extension of the OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine located in Tulsa. The Oklahoma State University (OSU) College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation opened this fall (August 2020) on Cherokee land in Tahlequah, the capital of the Cherokee Nation's 14-county reservation in the rolling hills of rural Oklahoma, about an hour east of Tulsa. Nationwide, fewer than half of 1% of US physicians are Native American. In the first class at the new school, 22% identify as such. The Cherokee Nation paid to construct the $40 million, 84,000 square foot building that will house the new medical school starting in January.
