Medicine

Prepare to Heal With Skill and Confidence

When you graduate from New York Institute of Technology, you’ll enter the healthcare field with every tool in your belt.

Thanks to careful training starting in simulation spaces, extensive clinical experience at leading regional healthcare facilities focusing on serving diverse populations, combined with opportunities for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research, you’ll become a forward-thinking professional ready to provide expert care and lead through innovation and compassion.

We’ve been influencing the medical field for over 40 years. Founded in 1977, our medical school has grown to become one of the nation’s largest osteopathic training institutions. Through our varied partnerships, you’ll work alongside local health providers in Ghana or under expert supervision at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and other leading clinical locations, reinforcing your skills and broadening your perspective.

Learn more about our beginnings, degree programs, and how we train students to deliver culturally sensitive, compassionate, and holistic care.

College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM)

Prepare to treat the whole patient through evidence-based care in settings ranging from hospitals to universities to rural community care centers. Both of our locations—on Long Island and in Jonesboro, Arkansas—feature high-tech facilities, clinical rotations, and an emphasis on research, creating graduates who move the profession forward.

School of Health Professions

Since 1996, the School of Health Professions has greatly expanded our degree programs and impact. Through competitive programs in exercise science, occupational therapy, physical therapy, physician assistant studies, nursing, and the health sciences, plus cross-disciplinary research and immersive clinical experiences, our students commit to ethical practice and the delivery of transcultural patient care.

Stats & Rankings

Top 20%

Best Value Colleges for Healthcare Careers.

Payscale.com

99.5%

Match/placement rate achieved by the NYITCOM Class of 2022.

Top

source of minority graduates at the doctoral level in osteopathic medicine.

Diverse Issues in Higher Education

Our Degrees

From bachelor’s-level and combined degrees to doctoral studies, our students receive future-oriented training from expert faculty and the clinical and research experiences necessary to prepare them for diverse career paths.

Our Research

Investigate the biology of brain disorders, explore tissue regeneration using 3-D bioprinting technology, help improve health literacy, and fight cancer through technology. Across our programs, students and faculty advance the medical field’s collective knowledge and develop solutions for improved well-being.

Recent Developments

Daisy Madaan standing behind a desk

Designing for Well-Being

After earning a degree in interior design, Daisy Madaan (B.F.A. ’25) became fascinated by the ways design can influence healthcare environments. As a graduate student, she is focusing her research on designing supportive spaces for neurodivergent individuals.

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Alumni Support Startup Tech Central

Whether with time or money, alumni are offering their support to budding entrepreneurs.

NYITCOM students with assisted living resident

Bridging Generations, Building Great Doctors

Medical students partnered with a local assisted living community to host a meaningful intergenerational event that fostered connection, empathy, and real-world communication skills.

Graphic of migration flow

Examining the Role of Inequality in Human Migration

Mathematical models fall short in their predictions of migration. Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Alain Boldini, Ph.D., seeks to improve these models by including conflicts, natural disasters, and economic factors.

Talia Lilikakis and Robert Alexander working at a computer

Student Wins Best Presentation in Puerto Rico

Life sciences/osteopathic medicine student Talia Lilikakis traveled to Puerto Rico for the Annual Meeting of the Society of Thoracic Radiology, where she won Best Student Oral Scientific Presentation.

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Confidence and Community

A semester-long design studio project, where students were tasked with proposing a community theater, pushed two architecture students out of their comfort zone. What they discovered is their appreciation for community and their place in their future profession.

Cells in a human body.

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