Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine

What is the history of Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine?

Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine is a private medical school founded in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in 2013. It enrolled its first class of Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine students in 2016, and that class graduated in 2020.

The college was established to train physicians with attention to health-care needs in the Southwest. Its Las Cruces campus is associated with New Mexico State University through a partnership, but Burrell is a separate institution: admission to Burrell is not admission to NMSU. Burrell has also expanded to Melbourne, Florida. Applicants should check which campus an offer covers because location affects living arrangements and access to local clinical opportunities.

What are the faculties and departments at Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine?

Burrell is a specialized graduate medical school, not a university with undergraduate majors. Its central academic program leads to the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, or DO, degree.

Students study foundational biomedical sciences, clinical medicine, and osteopathic principles and practice. The curriculum moves from primarily classroom and laboratory learning into supervised clinical rotations. Those rotations are part of medical education; they are not the same as a residency, which graduates pursue after medical school. Applicants looking for a bachelor's degree, an unrelated graduate program, or a broad selection of academic departments should consider a different institution.

What is the location of Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine?

Burrell's original campus is in Las Cruces, southern New Mexico, near New Mexico State University. Burrell and NMSU are separate schools, although their proximity is relevant to the medical school's setting.

Las Cruces is near the Texas border and within driving distance of El Paso, Texas. Students should plan for the practicalities of getting to campus and to clinical assignments, which may be located away from Las Cruces. Burrell also has a Melbourne, Florida, location; applicants should distinguish that location from the New Mexico campus when evaluating housing, travel, and placement information.

What is the mission and vision of Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine?

Burrell states that its purpose is to educate osteopathic physicians and respond to health-care needs, particularly in underserved communities. That emphasis helps explain its regional focus and the place of clinical training and service in its educational approach.

Osteopathic physicians are licensed physicians who complete medical school and postgraduate training. Burrell's stated mission describes what it intends to prioritize; it should not be read as a promise that every graduate will practice in a particular community or specialty.