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Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine at Florida Institute of Technology

MOAACC Meeting

September 16, 2025

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BURRELL COLLEGE - CLASS OF 2029

WHITE COAT CEREMONY, JULY 2025

LAS CRUCES CAMPUS, NM (220)

MELBOURNE, FL (110)

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Founded August 2013

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The Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine educates a diverse osteopathic physician workforce committed to improving the quality and access to healthcare in underserved communities.

¡Para la gente y el futuro! For the people and the future!

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Our Mission Regions

New Mexico

  • July 2016: Four Year Medical School Opened in Las Cruces, NM – Matriculates 150 students (now 200 students/class).
  • July 2018: Regional Academic Centers (RACs) (OMS-3 and OMS-4 clinical training sites) opened in El Paso, TX, Tucson, AZ, Albuquerque, NM and Southeast NM.

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Florida

  • July 2020: Space Coast RAC opened in Brevard County (NOW – Orlando Health Melbourne Hospital, Rockledge Regional Medical Center, Sebastian River Hospital).
  • July 2024: Melbourne Four-Year Medical School Opens – Matriculates 107 students.
  • July 2025: Space Coast RAC expansion into Health First and Parrish M.C. (30 students)
  • July 2026: RAC development - SW Florida RAC (10 students); Palm Beach Co RAC (17 students)

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Curricular Highlights & �Florida Facilities

  • Human Cadaver Lab
  • Life-sized computer generated simulation units
  • Classrooms and breakout rooms
  • Comfortable student spaces
  • OMM – osteopathic skills labs

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Standardized Patient Program

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    • individuals trained to consistently and realistically portray specific patient cases
    • These "Standardized Patients" act out symptoms, take a specific medical history, and may undergo non-invasive physical exams
    • Allowing osteopathic medical students to practice and refine their communication, history-taking, and clinical skills before encountering real patients

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Our Commitment to Inclusion

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Mission Driven Student Body

36,000+ student volunteer hours in NM and the SW

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Locally in Melbourne:

  • Circles of Care
  • Daily Bread
  • Family Promise of Brevard
  • Brevard Health (Hospice, Memory Care and Movement Disorders Clinics)
  • Promise in Brevard
  • Rock Steady Boxing – Parkinson’s Patients
  • Agape Women’s Center
  • Scott Center for Autism at Florida Tech

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Burrell’s Social Impact

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Nationally, AACOM reports:

  • 8,695 DOs begin residency training this year
  • 99% placement for graduating seniors

https://www.aacom.org/news-reports/news/2025/05/12/99-percent-of-osteopathic-medical-students-obtain-residency-positions

New Physicians Graduated = 711

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Graduates Placed into Residencies = 99.9%

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2020 - 2025

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Primary Care Residency Placements by Specialty (2020-2024 and 2025):

2020-2024 2025

Internal Medicine: 196 36 Family Medicine: 150 38

Pediatrics: 53 13

Psychiatry*: 37 8

OB/GYN: 22 2

Total: 555 (78% of 711 graduates)

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*Note: Various Human Services Departments Include Psychiatry in Primary Care Classification

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Florida Residency Placements (2020 – 2024)

  • Mayo School of Medicine – Family Medicine (Jacksonville)
  • Nemours Children’s Hospital – Pediatrics (Orlando)
  • University of Florida College of Medicine – Internal Medicine (Jacksonville)
  • University of Florida College of Medicine – General Surgery (Jacksonville)
  • University of South Florida – Orthopedic Surgery (Largo)
  • FAU College of Medicine – Neurology (Boca Raton)
  • University of Miami – Physical Med & Rehab - (Miami)
  • Palm Beach GME Consortium – Psychiatry (Tamarac)

Anesthesia (1), Emergency Medicine (7), Family Medicine (13), Internal Medicine (12), Orthopedic Surgery (1), Pediatrics (6), Physical Med & Rehab (2), Psychiatry (4), General Surgery (4), Transitional Year (5), Neurology (3), OB/GYN (2).

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Other Residency Placements

(2020 - 2025):

Anesthesia Orthopedic

Dermatology Pathology

Emergency Medicine Physical Medicine & General Surgery Rehab (PM&R)

Neurology PM&R- Pediatric

Neurological Surgery Radiology-Diagnostic

Ophthalmology General Surgery

Urology

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Our Vision & Future

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Fulfill the Mission!

Burrell’s goal is to retain our graduates within the Florida region following their residency training and in collaboration with our clinical affiliates.

Florida Safety Net Hospital Alliance and

Florida Hospital Association

  • 17,924 physicians by 2035

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Florida Retention of Graduates from a Florida Medical School:

In 2020, nationally, 38.2% of medical students were actively practicing in the same state where they attended medical school.

Most of the top 10 states with the highest medical school retention rates were in the South; Florida being 47.4% (AAMC: 2021 STATE PHYSICIAN WORKFORCE DATA REPORT)

FL: 47.4%

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Florida Retention of Graduates from “both” a Florida Medical School (UME) & Florida GME Program:

Retention rates were highest among physicians who completed both UME and GME in the same state.

Nationally, more than two-thirds (67.5%) of the physicians who completed UME and GME in the same state, remained in the state to practice. Florida being one of the highest in the nation at 78.8% (AAMC: 2021 STATE PHYSICIAN WORKFORCE DATA REPORT)

FL: 78.8%

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Residency Training Development in Brevard County

Health First GMEC:

  • ACGME institutional accreditation

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Program Projections:

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  • July 2026
    • Internal Medicine
    • Family Medicine
  • July 2027
    • OB/GYN
    • General Surgery
    • Transitional Year
  • July 2028 and beyond
    • Anesthesia
    • Other

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Future of Osteopathic Medicine

Growth of COMs:

    • 43 accredited COMS
    • 69 teaching locations
    • 36 states
    • 38,000 (nearly 30%) of

U.S. medical students

are DO students

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Florida 5 COMS on 7 campuses:

    • NSU KPCOM – Davie (1981) and Clearwater (2019)
    • Burrell College – Melbourne (2024)
    • OCOM –Winter Garden (2024)
    • LECOM – Bradenton (2004) and Jacksonville (est 2026) University’s Arlington campus
    • LMU-DCOM –Orange Park (est 2026)

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Federal Legislative concerns:

  • FAIR Act – GME equity for DOs
  • Grad PLUS Loan Program elimination
    • 80% of DO students at present
  • PSLF-public service loan forgiveness elimination
  • Federal Loans Caps
    • $250,000 lifetime caps (undergrad, grad, prof)
  • Increasing reliance on private lenders
    • Unfavorable terms
    • Inability to qualify for URM applicants

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The Coalition for Osteopathic Excellence (COE), operates under the SW Foundation for Osteopathic Education & Research, a 501(c)(3). The foundation’s mission is to improve healthcare through the financial support of medical education for student scholarships and research initiatives at the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine in both New Mexico and Florida.

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Total Funds Raised (2016 – 2024): $10,000,000

Our Supporting Foundation

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CLASS

2025

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Thank You

For more information on our College, click below:

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View Book: Fulfilling our mission in Brevard Co and beyond

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https://burrell.edu/blog/2025/05/02/burrell-college-students-put-mission-medicine-into-action-in-florida-and-beyond/

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Website:

https://burrell.edu/