Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences (PNWU) is an accredited private, non-profit graduate school located in Yakima, Washington, United States. The university's inaugural program was the first new medical school to open in the Pacific Northwest in sixty years, and it confers the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree. The school was founded in 2005, accepted its first class in 2008 and graduated its first class in May, 2012.
Mission
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically underserved communities throughout the Northwest.
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History
In 2005, early planning and fundraising was underway to open a new osteopathic medical school in Washington State. The new school was raising funds, and working towards securing land. The university's main building, Butler-Haney Hall, was dedicated in 2008, and cost $13 million to build.
In 2007 the American Osteopathic Association, Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (AOA COCA) awarded the PNWU College of Osteopathic Medicine provisional accreditation and the school began student recruitment.
The school opened for classes in August 2008. In 2009, the university received a $400,000 federal grant to expand the College of Allied Health Sciences. The first class of 69 medical students graduated from the Pacific Northwest University on May 12, 2012.
Osteopathic Medical School
The college of osteopathic medicine is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association's Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation. The inaugural class of 2012 in the College of Osteopathic Medicine was made up of 75 students. Students perform two years of didactic training, where they focus on basic sciences, followed by two years of clinical rotations in off-site communities. Pre-requisites for the program include:
The school currently has 18 sites for clinical rotations over the five-state region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Rather than all of the students receiving their clinical training in Yakima, students are required to go to many parts of the Northwestern United States to receive hands-on training, often near to their homes. These sites include Fairbanks, Alaska; Blackfoot, Idaho; and Portland, Oregon among 15 others.
Campus
The campus now consists of four buildings. Butler-Haney Hall is the center of the school where instruction and training occur, as well as housing the College of Osteopathic Medicine's Library. A new addition to Butler-Haney Hall was completed in 2013. Cadwell Center opened in January 2011, and provides additional rooms for study, classroom and research space. A new University Conference Center is expected to be complete by the spring of 2015 and this building coupled with Iron Horse Lodge (Administration building) brings the total of four buildings to the growing PNWU campus. Starting in the fall of 2015 PNWU in conjunction with Washington State University will be opening a Pharmacy school which will be granting PharmD degrees. A local business developer is in the finishing touches of completing a three story series of single,two and three bedroom apartments immediately to the south of campus.
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