May 31, 2024- The first seven students to complete the Transformative Care Continuum, a unique educational collaboration between Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and Cleveland Clinic, will graduate from their residencies at the end of June. The innovative program offers an accelerated curriculum designed to align physician training with the evolving demands of modern health care delivery.
In 2018, the first cohort entered the Transformative Care Continuum (TCC), an innovative program with an accelerated curriculum where select students at the Heritage College Cleveland campus are granted early admittance to family medicine residency programs at Cleveland Clinic Akron General or Cleveland Clinic Lakewood Family Health Center. They then spend three years in medical school, instead of the traditional four, before entering their residencies. While in medical school, the students work with health care teams in Cleveland. The findings from the Consortium, including information from the Heritage College are now being used by the American Medical Association to continue the work of furthering medical education.