To promote cross-disciplinary education and improve collaboration in our health care programs, effective July 1, 2025, Nova Southeastern University (NSU) will be moving all current degree-level programs in its Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences to two new schools that will operate under either NSU’s Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine or NSU’s Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine.
The new Dr. Pallavi Patel School of Health Sciences will become part of the College of Allopathic Medicine and will include all current degree-level programs of:
- Anesthesiologist Assistant
- Health Science
- Physician Assistant
- Respiratory Therapy
- Sonography (Cardiovascular, Medical)
The new Dr. Pallavi Patel School of Rehabilitative Sciences will become part of College of Osteopathic Medicine and will include all current degree-level programs of:
- Audiology
- Health and Human Performance
- Physical Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech-Language Pathology
In keeping with the original mission statement of NSU’s health professions division when it was formed decades ago, these changes will foster the education, research, and patient care pursuits of our health professions students and faculty to take place in “a multidisciplinary setting, and, whenever possible, with integrated education … so the various disciplines will learn to work together as a team for the good of the public’s health” including sharing campus—and outside—facilities, as well as having some combined classes and clinical experiences.
