{"id":345947,"date":"2026-07-20T12:53:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/345947\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T12:53:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:53:39","slug":"citys-first-four-year-medical-school-opens-at-jacksonville-university-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/345947\/","title":{"rendered":"City\u2019s first four-year medical school opens at Jacksonville University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a $50 million investment into an Arlington campus, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine opened Jacksonville\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2025\/03\/26\/medical-school-jacksonville-university\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first medical school<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wusf.org\/health-news-florida\/2025-03-29\/jacksonville-university-breaks-ground-on-northeast-floridas-first-four-year-medical-school\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jacksonville University breaks ground on Northeast Florida&#8217;s first four-year medical school<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LECOM, which built its campus at Jacksonville University, hosted a ribbon-cutting to open its doors to around 75 students in osteopathic medicine, a field that focuses on whole-body care and preventive medicine.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wusf.org\/health-news-florida\/2026-02-05\/jacksonville-university-and-mayo-clinic-offer-new-nursing-program\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jacksonville University and Mayo Clinic offer new nursing program<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LECOM purchased the land for the four-year medical school on 9.87 acres in March 2025 for $5.22 million. The school is part of the 55-acre <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2022\/11\/30\/jacksonville-university-plans-citys-first-4-year-medical-school\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">JU Medical Mall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/jul\/17\/jacksonville-university-opens-citys-first-medical-school\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here to read the rest of this story<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0Jacksonville Daily Record, a\u00a0Jacksonville Today\u00a0news partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a $50 million investment into an Arlington campus, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine opened Jacksonville\u2019s first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-345947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}