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PennWest University and Lake Erie College Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) have partnered together provide students pursuing careers in the health profession to early admission opportunities and reduced tuition for certain graduate programs.<\/p>\n
Through the Early Acceptance Programs (EAP) with LECOM undergraduates at PennWest who are qualified may be able to secure early admission for professional degree programs as they complete bachelor’s degrees.<\/p>\n
Available programs include the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.), Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.), Doctor of Dental Medicine (D.M.D.) and Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (D.P.M.).\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a separate agreement with the LECOM School of Health Services Administration will provide students, faculty\u00a0and employees with a 15% tuition discount for select programs within the health administration.<\/p>\n
With this partnership and opportunities, the goal is to provide more healthcare professionals within Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis gives our students a more straightforward path into professional programs and helps them plan earlier for what comes next,\u201d said Dr. Bob Mehalik, associate\u00a0provost\u00a0and graduate dean. \u201cAt the same time, it reflects our responsibility as a public university to help meet Pennsylvania\u2019s growing demand for healthcare professionals \u2014 especially in the communities we serve.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PennWest University and Lake Erie College Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) have partnered together provide students pursuing careers in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,83294,83293,47577,6402,83292],"class_list":["post-186730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-health-professions","tag-lake-erie-college-osteopathic-medicine","tag-lecom","tag-partnership","tag-pennwest-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}