Facilities
- On the Athens Campus
- On the Cleveland Campus
- On the Dublin Campus
- Off Campus
- Electronic Resources
- Heritage College Learning Resource Center
- Ohio University Health Sciences Library
On the Athens Campus
Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine’s training facilities, classrooms, labs, and offices are housed in several buildings on or near Ohio University’s Union Green and West Green. The college’s newest building is Heritage Hall, or HH, which opened for classes in 2021. At the Heritage Hall in Athens, you will learn and train in this inspiring setting, alongside students and faculty from around the world, while addressing the needs of neighboring rural communities.
Heritage Hall houses the Heritage Clinical Training and Assessment Center. This facility features state-of-the-art medical equipment and technology, including mannequins that can be programmed to simulate various health conditions, an emergency/surgical laboratory suite, complete with a scrub station, advanced life support cardiac monitors, an anesthesia machine, intravenous pumps, and crash carts. The Heritage Community Clinic, located on the campus of Ohio University Grosvenor Hall West, Athens, offers free clinics to qualifying adults residing in Athens, Hocking, Meigs, Morgan, Perry, and Washington in the areas of primary care, diabetes, and dermatology. The Heritage Community Clinic also has two mobile health clinics that regularly visit multiple counties in southeastern Ohio. These mobile clinics contain fully equipped exam rooms in which our nurses and physicians provide care such as breast and cervical cancer screenings and childhood immunizations.
Heritage College’s osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) classrooms in Heritage Hall features a raised, central platform for the instructor and three large plasma screens with six large projection screens to give all students an unobstructed view of OMM demonstrations. Locker rooms are adjacent to the OMM lab for students’ convenience.
Our medical morphology facilities in Heritage Hall feature plasma screens connected to remote-controlled overhead teaching cameras that allow close-ups of specimens. Heritage College has its own plastination lab—one of only a few hundred in the country—which allows the production of plastinated specimens. Additionally, the micro anatomy lab and small group rooms feature high-resolution video projectors and audiovisual equipment designed to enhance the student learning experience.
Heritage Hall also houses admissions, student affairs, office of medical education, a learning resource center, small group rooms, active learning classrooms, a cafe’, locker rooms and an exercise facility. Additional administrative offices are located in the Medical Education Building also found on the Union Green.
Heritage Hall features multiple academic learning classrooms. In the academic learning classrooms, tables are outfitted with a push-to-talk microphone system that increase student interaction during sessions across the three campus locations.
On the Cleveland Campus
Our Cleveland site is located minutes from Interstate 480 and the Interstate 271 Harvard interchange in the Cleveland suburb of Warrensville Heights, about 20 minutes from downtown Cleveland. This new campus includes 60,000 square feet of academic and administrative space housed within Building A on the campus of Cleveland Clinic’s South Pointe Hospital. Known as “The Friendly City,” Warrensville Heights is an emerging Cleveland suburb that is home to several educational centers, corporations, shopping centers and parks.
Building A at South Pointe Hospital not only houses all Heritage College labs, academic learning classrooms, offices, and study spaces, it is also home to several Cleveland Clinic offices including a Wound Care Center, a Cancer Center, a Physical Therapy Center, and several offices of practicing physicians. Because the Heritage College campus is also part of a hospital facility, the lobby of the main entrance is staffed with a security guard, patient transporter, and a receptionist to greet the building guests. In order to have access to the facility, Heritage College students must also undergo Cleveland Clinic onboard training.
Most instruction occurs in the academic learning classrooms, equipped with the latest technology for presentations, interactions with others both on and off site, and interactions with students and faculty via educational groupware and videoconferencing. The Clinical Training and Assessment Center, complete with standardized and simulated patient rooms as well as a simulated emergency and operating room, provides a realistic yet controlled environment to gain diagnostic clinical skills, master complex technical procedures, and develop communication skills early in the education process.
Building A also contains the medical morphology lab complete with high-magnification cameras and large-screen displays to allow faculty to zoom in on structures and broadcast images throughout the room and across buildings and campuses. The OMM lab contains 20 full-featured tables and large-screen displays throughout the lab ensuring students have a full view of instructor demonstrations. Video technology allows faculty members to connect the medical morphology and OMM labs, integrating musculoskeletal anatomy instruction and problem solving in clinical settings. This building also contains locker rooms, as well as an exercise facility.
On the Dublin Campus
Our Dublin location is easily accessible via Interstate 270 and is located 14 miles from downtown Columbus. The campus encompasses 109,471 square feet across three buildings on 15 acres. Click here for a virtual tour of the campus.
OhioHealth Medical Education Building 1 (MEB1) is the main building containing administrative and faculty offices, conference rooms, small group seminar rooms, group study rooms, the Learning Resource Center, the OMM lab, and academic learning classrooms.
All academic learning classrooms are equipped with the latest technology for presentations, interactions with others both on and off site, and interactions with students and faculty via educational groupware and videoconferencing.
The OMM lab contains 20 full-featured tables and large-screen displays throughout the lab ensuring students have a full view of instructor demonstrations. Video technology allows faculty members to connect the OMM labs among the Heritage College three academic campuses throughout the state, as OMT principles are practiced by students in-room during the connected sessions.
OhioHealth Medical Education Building 2 (MEB2) contains the Clinical Training and Assessment Center (CTAC) and biomedical science faculty offices on the first floor of the facility. The second floor provides for an active learning classroom and breakout study, instruction and conference room spaces, along with an office suite for primary care faculty. The MEB2 facility also houses two internal university departments and two external partners of the Heritage College, including a patient practice.
In the CTAC, simulated physician clinic spaces allow students to practice clinical skills with standardized patients in a realistic yet controlled environment to gain diagnostic clinical skills, master complex technical procedures, and develop communication skills early in the education process. Students will also train in a replicated operating theater and emergency room, which features a wide variety of state-of-the-art medical equipment and technology, including mannequins that can be programmed to simulate various health conditions in order for medical students to practice medical techniques.
The Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Anatomy Lab contains the medical morphology lab complete with high-magnification cameras and large-screen displays to allow faculty to zoom in on structures and broadcast images throughout the room. This building also contains locker rooms, as well as exercise and shower facilities.
Off Campus
As Heritage College students enter their third year of medical education (clinical clerkship), most will relocate to the clinical campus sites around the state for rotations with clinical faculty in ambulatory settings and hospitals. Students who attended the Cleveland and Dublin campuses for the preclinical years will remain in those areas to participate in clinical clerkships.
Electronic Resources
Technology plays a vital role in our curricula. All Heritage College students are required to have a laptop computer that meeting the minimum standards needed to use OU & Heritage College systems and network. For students, faculty, and preceptors, OU provides access to e-mail, the Web and OhioLINK-a statewide library system that permits the user to search and borrow from more than five million titles.
Classrooms across all three campuses are equipped with high quality video conferencing and active learning technologies. At each campus site, classrooms and conference rooms support MS Teams connectivity and wireless display from a personal device.
Students can access their curricular materials through eMedley (LMS) and can submit supporting information through the College’s student portal (i.e. Salesforce). Students also use LearningSpace for clinical skills activities and documentation.
To learn more about available Medical Education Technology, please visit our website .
Heritage College Learning Resource Center
The Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine campuses maintain a Learning Resource Center to support its curricula by providing access to leaning materials and tools needed by Heritage College students for their coursework and by providing access to a current reference collection in the basic and clinical sciences. Material can be checked out from an LRC by Heritage College students, faculty, and staff for overnight use.
The Learning Resource Centers (LRC) are location in Heritage Hall, Dublin Medical Education Building 1, and Building A of South Pointe Hospital
Ohio University Health Sciences Library
The main library facility on the Athens campus—the Vernon R. Alden Library—houses the health sciences collection. The university libraries’ collection comprises nearly three million bound volumes, more than 46,000 periodical subscriptions and huge quantities of additional research materials—including microform units, maps, photographs, and DVDs.
In 2008, the transformation of the health sciences collection to a digital format began. Eighty percent of the collection is now virtual. This allows OU students, faculty, and staff access anytime, anywhere. The health sciences librarian provides reference and research assistance as well as bibliographic instruction to promote the development of information literacy skills as they apply to studies in health sciences.
ALICE, the Ohio University libraries’ online catalog, can access library holdings on the main and regional campuses from any library terminal and from outside locations via network connection. Workstations provide access to numerous internet-based databases as well as statewide resources on OhioLINK, national and international resources on the Internet, and to the vast Online Computer Library Center Catalog.
For more information about the Ohio University library system, visit www.ohio.edu/library .