Medicine
Prepare to Heal With Skill and Confidence
When you graduate from New York Institute of Technology, you’ll enter the healthcare field with every tool in your belt.
Thanks to careful training starting in simulation spaces, extensive clinical experience at leading regional healthcare facilities focusing on serving diverse populations, combined with opportunities for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research, you’ll become a forward-thinking professional ready to provide expert care and lead through innovation and compassion.
We’ve been influencing the medical field for over 40 years. Founded in 1977, our medical school has grown to become one of the nation’s largest osteopathic training institutions. Through our varied partnerships, you’ll work alongside local health providers in Ghana or under expert supervision at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and other leading clinical locations, reinforcing your skills and broadening your perspective.
Learn more about our beginnings, degree programs, and how we train students to deliver culturally sensitive, compassionate, and holistic care.
College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM)
Prepare to treat the whole patient through evidence-based care in settings ranging from hospitals to universities to rural community care centers. Both of our locations—on Long Island and in Jonesboro, Arkansas—feature high-tech facilities, clinical rotations, and an emphasis on research, creating graduates who move the profession forward.
School of Health Professions
Since 1996, the School of Health Professions has greatly expanded our degree programs and impact. Through competitive programs in exercise science, occupational therapy, physical therapy, physician assistant studies, nursing, and the health sciences, plus cross-disciplinary research and immersive clinical experiences, our students commit to ethical practice and the delivery of transcultural patient care.
Stats & Rankings
Top 20%
Best Value Colleges for Healthcare Careers.
Payscale.com
99.5%
Match/placement rate achieved by the NYITCOM Class of 2022.
Top
source of minority graduates at the doctoral level in osteopathic medicine.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Our Degrees
From bachelor’s-level and combined degrees to doctoral studies, our students receive future-oriented training from expert faculty and the clinical and research experiences necessary to prepare them for diverse career paths.
Our Research
Investigate the biology of brain disorders, explore tissue regeneration using 3-D bioprinting technology, help improve health literacy, and fight cancer through technology. Across our programs, students and faculty advance the medical field’s collective knowledge and develop solutions for improved well-being.
Recent Developments
Op-ed: Universities Need More AI, Not Less
Many colleges and universities fret that AI will kill higher education, but keeping it out of the classroom will only produce graduates unprepared for the future, writes President Jerry Balentine.
Peer Success Guide Recognized at Conference
Computer science student Keerthi Kapavarapu visited San Francisco for the College Reading and Learning Association’s 58th Annual Conference, where she received the Outstanding Peer Educator Award.
A Lasting Impression
While being treated for a serious case of viral meningitis by osteopathic physicians, Chris Kyriakides (D.O. ’89) was compelled to pursue the practice and later inspired his children to follow his path.
Technology Partnership Helps Children With Disfluencies
Former NBA star Michael Kidd-Gilchrist has partnered with the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences’ ETIC to develop a prototype of a technology platform that he hopes will help children who stutter.
The Cassowary’s Impact on the Rainforest
NYITCOM-Arkansas Assistant Professor Todd Green, Ph.D., sheds light on a bird species that plays an impactful role in rainforest conservation.
For the Love of Engineering
Andra Voicu (B.S. ’08) found the love of her life—electrical contracting—after joining her father’s business and working behind the scenes on municipal buildings projects in the New York area.
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