的 历史 of Maine's Only Medical School
的 University of New England College of 整骨疗法的医学 was founded in 1978 by the New England Osteopathic Foundation, 直到今天都是如此 Maine's only medical school. 的 College that year consisted of a newly revamped Stella Maris Hall, 36名一年级学生, 12名教职员工. Today UNECOM has some of the best medical education facilities in the nation with the Harold Alfond Center for 健康 科学s, nearly 700 students and more than 250 faculty members. 除了, UNECOM has been recognized for excellence in primary care, 老年教育, and osteopathic manipulative medicine.
In 1972, a group of New England osteopathic physicians met informally to discuss their concern about the aging population of osteopathic physicians in the New England area and the difficulty of New England students in securing admission to osteopathic colleges. Osteopathic physicians comprised the majority of physicians available in numerous rural and urban areas. Failure to replace them would cause not only a marked loss to the profession but, 更重要的是, to the patients who had come to depend on osteopathic medical care. 的 group discussed ways of dealing with this problem and moved to establish an osteopathic college in New England.
的 New England Foundation for 整骨疗法的医学 (NEFOM) was incorporated in 1973 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 自成立以来, the purpose of this nonprofit tax-exempt organization was "to operate and maintain a foundation for the promotion of osteopathic medical education, osteopathic medical research, and the improvement of health care in osteopathic medical hospitals and related institutions."
的se goals were established as a response to the needs recognized by the profession, which later became documented in studies supported by the Bureau of 健康 Manpower of the then U.S. Department of 健康, Education, and Welfare. 的 establishment of NEFOM, as well as the planning for the creation of a college of osteopathic medicine, was based on regionalism: the development of one osteopathic medical school to serve the six New England states was looked upon as efficient and economical use of the region's resources.
的 University of New England College of 整骨疗法的医学 opened its doors in the fall of 1978 with an entering class of 36 students. This momentous achievement was largely due to the financial support and hard work of individual osteopathic physicians, 他们的国家社会, the region's osteopathic hospitals, 感恩的病人. Following four years of continued effort and financial support from the profession and its friends, the College graduated its first class in June of 1982.
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