Message from the Executive Associate Dean

COMP-Northwest will continue the traditions started by COMP in 1977.  We will train physicians for our future that will be capable of marshalling in a new era of medicine.  Our students will become the health care leaders of tomorrow, utilizing the knowledge and technology available today to practice from the Pacific Northwest to all corners of the globe with purpose, passion and skill.
Paula M. Crone, DO

Meet the COMP-Northwest Team

Karen Nichols, DO, immediate past president of AOA, addresses new COMP-Northwest students at the new campus Friday July 29, 2011.

Dr. Philip Pumerantz greets students from COMP-Northwest's inaugural class during the President's Ice Cream Social Friday, July 29, 2011, on the COMP-Northwest campus in Lebanon, Oregon. COMP-Northwest held its inaugural Convocation and White Coat ceremony Saturday, July 30, on the Lebanon campus.

COMP-Northwest is the approved new campus of WesternU. It has been built on the 50-acre Samaritan Campus Center adjacent to Lebanon Community Hospital in Lebanon, Oregon. The Northwest campus' parent organization, COMP Pomona, founded in 1977, has graduated a total of 3,828 physicians since 1982.

  
This latest expansion of Western University continues the commitment of COMP to medical education in the Northwest, which was enhanced with the development of the Northwest Track and now matures as a four-year program known as COMP-Northwest.

COMP-Northwest offices are located at:

Key elements of the new medical school:

• The first class of 100 students began classes in August 2011.
• The four-year enrollment will total 400 students
• A 54,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility has been built on the Samaritan campus adjacent to the anticipated Samaritan Events Center, a hotel complex, and the 150 bed Oregon Department of Veteran's Affairs Home.
• Student housing and small commercial outlets are also anticipated.

COMP began educating students in its Northwest Track (NWT) in 2004, with 30 seats reserved for students from the Northwest. The first class of the NWT graduated in 2008 and since that time over 120 students have graduated with 30% in residencies within the Northwest.

Click here to download a pdf of our most recent publication Physicians for Oregon, A Significant Solution

Click here to download a pdf of our COMP-Northwest folder.

Keep up with the latest developments about COMP's new Northwest Campus by visiting our
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