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Students at MSUCOM’s new Macomb University Center site use distance learning technology. The pioneer 2009 entering class at the new Detroit Medical Center facility. Elite D.O.-Ph.D. students Joyce Chyong-jy Liu and Tyler Voss work with researcher mentor Andy Amalfitano to develop vaccines for HIV and malaria. Page 28 Fall 2010 MSU Alumni Magazine
Lobby at the Detroit Medical Center MSU’S COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE FULFILLS THE STATE’S NEEDS— AND THEN SOME After four decades, MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine continues to follow its original mandate on how best to serve the state. By Pat Grauer, M.A. '77 It’s an iconic photo. Michigan Governor William Milliken, with smile broad and pen in hand, is surrounded by ten legislators and physicians. At that instant, by Public Act 162 of 1969, the legislation that ultimately created the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine was brought to life. Core to that legislation was a mandate: This new medical school must provide the physicians that Michigan most needs. At that point, few knew the true importance of those pen strokes. More than four decades later, MSUCOM, the first osteopathic college ever to be state-assisted and the first to be located at a major university, has fulfilled that mission. Year after year, the college’s leadership and faculty have worked diligently to maximize the likelihood that graduates will provide the medical services Michigan needs in the quantity Michigan needs with the quality Michigan needs. It has paid off. To date, great pride rises from the following bald facts: For ten years straight, MSU- COM has ranked in the top 5 percent of all medical schools in the nation—D.O. and M.D.— for primary care education, according to U.S.News & World Report. MSUCOM recruits from Michigan. In the 2009 entering class, for example, 93 percent of the students were residents of the state. Fully two-thirds of the college’s 4,131 alumni remain in Michigan to practice—a higher proportion than any other medical school in the state. More than half of MSUCOM graduates are providing primary care, serving as the guardians and coordinators of health care for their patients. In short, from Marquette to Monroe, MSUCOM alumni are working and serving in every portion of our state—in inner cities and small towns, in suburban neighborhoods and rural areas, on reservations and military bases. This impact will only increase with MSUCOM’s expansion (see p. 32). From its beginning, the college has been indebted to the osteopathic profession. A consortium of community-based affiliated hospitals was established in the Statewide Campus System (SCS); at the time it was so innovative that its developers were asked to testify before Congress. There are now 33 hospitals in the SCS, and with our more than 2,600 volunteer physician faculty, they do the heavy lifting of our clinical education. These generous resources have allowed the college to expand because of assurance that MSUCOM students will learn from the best clinicians, and that there will be more than sufficient numbers of internships and residencies available for them when they graduate. Many MSUCOM alumni have noteworthy accomplishments: Steven Pitt, the forensic psychiatrist who worked on the Columbine High School, Jon- Benet Ramsey, and Kobe Bryant cases; Sister Anne Brooks, who Click Right Through for MSU alumni.msu.edu Page 29
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