MISSION STATEMENT
To educate students in a multicultural, multiethnic environment utilizing inter-professional education, modern technologies and knowledge founded on evidence-based science to serve the needs of our community, our nation and the world.
CORE COMMITMENTS
Knowledge and Evidenced Based Medicine
Larkin Health Sciences Institute promotes and supports intellectualism and humanism, emphasizing life-long learning, growth and development. The Institute pursues scholarly and critical analysis of fundamental questions of Biology, Sociology, Psychology and Medicine. With education and research, the Institute advances the development of solutions that promote the common good of medicine and society.
Inclusive Community
Larkin Health Sciences Institute is a global, inclusive community characterized by relationship, compassion and respect for self and others. The Institute nurtures and values cultural, social and intellectual diversity and welcomes faculty, staff and students of all traditions. The Institute was founded upon the caring and giving of a community hospital.
DYNAMIC LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT
Larkin Health Sciences Institute enjoys an integrated relationship with Larkin Community Hospital. The student interaction with MDs, DOs, PhDs, DNPs, PharmDs, PAs, etc. will provide a unique environment that fosters active learning. The hospital already supports a nursing school and the largest DO residency training program at a hospital in the United States and offers training more than 36 specialties.
GENERAL INFORMATION
HISTORY
The Larkin Health Sciences Institute has evolved from the operation of Larkin Hospital, a community-based
hospital that prides itself as a "teaching hospital" and has the largest Osteopathic Medical Doctor training residency in the United States. As health-care began to change with the increased need of medical doctors and other healthcare professionals, Larkin saw itself as the center of what was most needed for the education of the new healthcare professional-access to experiential training.
MISSION STATEMENT
To educate students in a multicultural, multiethnic environment utilizing inter-professional education, modern technologies and knowledge founded on evidence-based science to serve the needs of our community, our…