Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine

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The Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine

Motto:	Pedestris Scientiae Porta^[1]
Established:	1916 (MCMXVI)
Location:	Independence, Ohio, United States
Campus:	27 acres (0.0 km²)^[2]
Athletics:	2 teams (Mens and Women's Basketball) and 3 clubs (Golf, Softball, Soccer)^[3]
Website:	www.ocpm.edu Student Website Alumni Website

The Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine is a four-year, private medical college in Cleveland, Ohio. It teaches students to become podiatric physicians and surgeons and has done so since 1916, having educated some 5,000 such students to date. OCPM is the premier podiatric medical college in the world and is an independent college of podiatric medicine with all the advantages of an academic health science center. As an independent college of medicine, the school retains its autonomy over budgetary decisions and resource allocations without the need to support other programs of study; for this reason it has the most reasonable tuition for podiatric study in the United States.

The school began as The Ohio College of Chiropody in Euclid Avenue's Republic Building. The founders were inspired to begin by Ohio's passage of the Platt-Ellis Bill, which regulated medical specialties.

The first graduating class included six women. (The enrollment is currently 359 students. 76% of these students are Caucasian, 9% are African-American, and 7% are Asian or Pacific Islander.)

By 1976, the college had moved to its University Circle location, 4.5 acres wide, on Carnegie Avenue. The college moved to a newly renovated and refurbished site in Independence, Ohio, at the old Realty One building on August 15th, 2007. The college operates the Cleveland Foot and Ankle Institute and its satellites, which had its name changed from the previously know Cleveland Foot and Ankle Clinic. The two new clinics are located on Euclid Heights and in Huron Hospital. The Biomechanics and Surgery Departments operate out of both clinics, while the Pod Med Department is run exclusively out of the Euclid Clinic.

It is currently affiliated with many Cleveland area hospitals, including Huron Road Hospital, Richmond Heights General Hospital, Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital, Hillcrest Hospital, and the Veteran Affairs Medical Center and Suburban Community Hospital. Additionally, 45 other hospitals and around 300 private practices provide externships to the college's students. In fact, the college has a 100% residency placement rate for graduating students and has done so for 15 years.