The university is looking to expand its School of Osteopathic Medicine with a campus at the Jersey shore.
GLASSBORO -- Rowan University officials will vote Wednesday to explore opening a new medical school campus in Atlantic City.
The agenda for Wednesday's trustees meeting says the board will decide whether to hire the firm Tripp Umbach for a feasibility study on "the impacts associated with a potential four-year branch campus of a medical school."
Ken Blank, Rowan's senior vice president for health sciences, said the school has been in talks with AtlantiCare health system about cooperative ventures and the idea of opening a campus of Rowan School of Osteopathic Medicine developed.
"We had a meeting about how we could work together and the branch campus concept came up," he said. "We've been talking and now we think it's time to do the feasibility study."
Rowan and AtlantiCare will split the cost of the study. The Atlantic City campus would be smaller than the main program in Stratford, Blank said Tuesday. This marks the university's first attempt to establish a presence in Atlantic City.
Rowan first began accepting students to the SOM, located in Stratford, in 2012 after the dismantling of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
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