New Medical School to Open in Harlem

The Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine will open on 125th Street in Harlem across from the Apollo Theater. The school will recruit its students from underrepresented minorities. The clinical training will take place at hospitals in Harlem and other areas of the city with large minority populations.

The new medical school will have 75,000 square feet of classrooms, lecture halls, offices, and laboratories.

The school plans to open this fall. Tuition at the medical school for the first entering class will be $31,125.

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