Northeast Ohio Medical University’s (NEOMED) mission is to harness diversity, innovation, and collaboration to create transformative leaders and improve health through education, discovery, and service. Aligned with that mission, the College of Medicine’s mission is to inspire medical students to become exemplary patient care-centered physicians, who seek to improve the health and quality of life of the communities of Ohio and beyond, including those that are diverse and underserved.

Guided by these missions, the Admissions Committee strives to admit students who will practice as integrated providers in the communities of Ohio and beyond. The College of Medicine is committed to developing transformational leaders who work to achieve health equity, as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, by addressing historic and contemporary injustices; overcoming economic, social, and other obstacles to health and health care; and eliminating preventable health disparities.

Recognizing that diversity and inclusivity encompass a broad array of backgrounds, experiences, and attributes, such as but not limited to, students who are drawn from educationally or economically disadvantaged backgrounds; have differing sexual orientations and gender identities; are members of underrepresented minority populations; are veterans or military-affiliated; first-generation college students; and those from rural or urban medically underserved areas.

In addition to our holistic approach to inclusivity, the College of Medicine Admissions Committee has identified diversity groups for students to include:

• those from a rural background;
• those disadvantaged economically or educationally; and
• those who are military-affiliated, including but not limited to:
  • those who have served or are expected to serve in the armed forces;
  • those who are enlisted, veterans, graduates of a military academy, granted a Health Professions Scholarship Program scholarship, and
  • those with Montgomery GI Bill benefits.

The College of Medicine will strive to recruit and matriculate students from these identified groups.

Recruitment and admissions efforts are supported by other NEOMED, and the College of Medicine programs directed at making all students, including those from diverse backgrounds, feel welcome, included, and supported in their academic pursuits and campus life.

January 17, 2024