Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Dublin Campus

Three buildings in a 14.8-acre former business park—an office building, a garage, and an entrepreneurial center—were renovated to create a new Central Ohio campus of the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.

The project includes renovation of:

• All four floors of the 46,000-sf Medical Education Building 1 (MEB1), the main building, built in the early 1980s.
• The 20,000-sf first floor of the three-story Medical Education Building 2 (MEB2), constructed in the late 1970s.
• The 5,000-sf first floor of a 6,000-sf garage, now called Dublin Anatomy, built in the mid-1990s.

MEB1 contains a multi-use technology-rich classroom, four learning labs, an osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) lab with 18 to 27 tables for two students each, OMM control room, locker room, learning resource center with group study space, small seminar rooms, the dean’s suite with a 20-person conference room, and administrative and faculty offices. Primary care research spaces are located on the main floor for maximum visibility.

MEB2 houses research, histology/neuroanatomy labs, a wet lab, 10 clinical exam simulation rooms, three mannequin simulation labs, operating and emergency room simulations, imaging labs, and a skills lab.

The garage has been converted to a lab building for gross anatomy cadaver labs.

The campus was developed specifically to address the shortage of primary care physicians, both in Ohio and nationally. It houses a staff of 11.5 full-time faculty, 13 administrative and support staff, and 15 part-time adjunct faculty, in addition to the dean. The first two classes accepted 50 students each; the number will increase to 60 with the class that enrolls in 2016.

The Dublin campus differs from one the university has in Athens, Ohio, in that students will remain for their full four years of medical training. Students in Dublin will be able to receive their two years of clinical training locally, thanks to partnerships with OhioHealth, Mount Carmel, and Ohio State University

The project is tracking LEED Silver certification for the garage and MEB1.