Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine

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Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine is located at 230 West 125th Street directly across from the Apollo Theater in Manhattan’s historic neighborhood of Harlem. This medical school is now at the final stage of completion and will be finished by April 2007.

The new school will provide approximately 75,000 square feet of state-of-the-art medical education facilities, including amphitheater lecture halls, classrooms, offices, support facilities, clinical skills training facilities as well as technologically advanced laboratories. The library will include over 13,000 books, over 1,000 journals, sophisticated virtual resources, over 80 computers, multimedia areas and comfortable reading spaces.

In addition to the approximately 40 full-time faculty and 100 part-time faculty expected to be hired, the school expects to bring on board about 200 doctors from New York City hospitals in adjunct faculty positions to supervise students. The school is in the process of forming partnerships with hospitals in New York and clinics in Harlem for students to do their clinical work, and also has extensive plans for research, which will begin in the fall of 2008.