Rowan University is preparing to take the first steps toward creating a medical school campus in Atlantic City, extending the footprint of its growing medical programs and potentially tapping a new student base there.
Rowan trustees are set to vote Wednesday on a feasibility study to explore an Atlantic City partnership between the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine and AtlantiCare. Trustees will vote on awarding a contract to the Pittsburgh-based consulting firm Tripp Umbach to conduct the study “to understand the impacts associated with a potential four-year branch campus of a medical school,” according to the agenda for Wednesday’s board meeting.
“We’ve probably been talking for about a year at this point, and it’s reached the point where we felt that it was necessary to have a feasibility study,” said Ken Blank, the senior vice president for health sciences at Rowan University, whose responsibilities include oversight of both the Stratford-based osteopathic medicine school and Camden-based Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.
A medical school campus in Atlantic City would be Rowan’s first established presence there.