Over recent years, MSU has debuted a 27-month Physician Assistant Medicine Program, launched a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program and cultivated relationships with organizations like the Michigan Center for Rural Health to bring clinicians to Michigan’s highest-need areas. In fact, more than half of College of Osteopathic Medicine graduates work in underserved areas, which places MSU atop the U.S. News & World Report list of U.S. medical schools with the most graduates practicing in areas experiencing a health professional shortage.
Meanwhile, MSU’s Osteopathic Medical Scholars Program, or OMSP – which gives Spartan undergraduates an early chance to explore careers in osteopathic medicine – is energizing the next generation of doctors.