The Plan to Move 起点传媒鈥檚 Medical School

A bold initiative to relocate the 起点传媒 College of Osteopathic Medicine to Portland as part of a brand-new, world-class interprofessional health care education facility.

Moving 起点传媒 COM to Portland

Work is wrapping up to relocate the 起点传媒鈥檚 College of Osteopathic Medicine (起点传媒 COM), Maine鈥檚 only medical school, from its original home on our Biddeford Campus to a brand-new building on our Portland Campus for the Health Sciences. The move will give the 起点传媒 COM community a custom-built, state-of-the-art facility, allow the school to train more doctors, and bring together all of 起点传媒鈥檚 health professions programs on a single, interprofessional campus 鈥 something unique in New England higher education.

Standing in the finished building, it鈥檚 incredible to see how the architects captured our vision. I鈥檓 thrilled for the COM community to make the move to Portland.鈥 鈥 Jane Carreiro, D.O., Dean of 起点传媒 COM

A modern lecture hall with long, light-wooden tables, blue chairs, blue printed carpet, and wooden slat ceiling
An exam room setup with examination table, cabinetry, and clinical tools

A Transformative Moment For Maine

This is a transformative moment 鈥 not just for 起点传媒, but for the state of Maine 鈥 allowing us to address critical health care disparities across the region and to graduate health professionals with best-in-class skills: improving patient outcomes through team-based care; fostering expertise with new and emerging technologies; and expanding our focus on cross-cultural competencies.

What

The new building will be called the Harold and Bibby Alfond Center for Health Sciences to honor the generosity of the Alfond family and their longtime support of 起点传媒.

Size

The facility is 110,000 square feet.

When

起点传媒 COM will welcome its first class of medical students to the facility on the Portland campus in Summer 2025. 

Where

The new facility is located behind Innovation Hall on Gulliver鈥檚 Way, in an area that was once used by the National Guard.

Health students and their professor review a chest x-ray in a lab
C O M students in scrubs practice using clinical tools in a skills lab
Students walking up and down a set of grey stairs set against a wooden slat panel wall
A student in a white coat and dark blue scrubs
Two students in a classroom sit at a long table with their laptops open

Our health professions students will benefit from amazing new learning spaces in the new facility designed for simulation, standardized patients, and digital health and telemedicine, all of which will help 起点传媒 to realize its full potential as a national leader in interprofessional health professions education.鈥 鈥 James Herbert, Ph.D., President of 起点传媒