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Our Vision:
Transform Culture in America

We believe our unique approach to education can transform culture in America by modeling community in an age of incivility, spreading faith in an age of hopelessness, and committing to scholarship in a post-truth era.

Inspired by Saint Benedict — who fought to preserve civilization and transform the culture of his day through small religious communities — our Transform Culture in America vision is our answer to today’s ailing world.

Through countless new initiatives, we are extending our reach and broadening our impact so that we can bring authentic Catholic education of the whole person to the areas of our culture that need it most.

Few places need our witness as urgently as healthcare.

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“It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into what we do.”

—Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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Launching the Proposed School of Osteopathic Medicine

The culture in American healthcare is sick.

Too many of our country’s medical schools have devolved into simple training grounds: adept at imparting a mechanical understanding of medical norms, procedures, and skillsets, but incapable of forming the whole person into a prudent, thoughtful, and compassionate practitioner of the art of medicine.

The result is a healthcare system that puts procedures before people, strives to be technically correct rather than holistically beneficial, and dehumanizes and routinizes a medical process that ought to be personal and prudential.

In short, today’s medical professionals are taught to follow procedures; they aren’t taught to care for persons. And as a consequence, we’re experiencing a crisis of good doctors who live out sound ethical principles with integrity, wisdom, and kindness.

To start the process of transforming this culture of negligence into a culture of authentic care, it is our intention to launch the proposed Benedictine College School of Osteopathic Medicine. This new medical school will bring our tried-and-true model of faithful, Christ-centered education to America’s medical education system—creating an enclave of truth in a wayward world according to the model of our namesake.

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Nursing students working in a simulation lab

Milestones in Our Journey:

2025

Secure Founding Dean and Applicant Status

2026

Candidate Status

2027

Preliminary Accreditation

2028

Welcoming First Class

2032

Graduating First Class / First Residencies

2035

Benedictine doctors bring Christ-centered healthcare to communities around the country

Project News:

January 22, 2025: Sluder Takes on Lead role With Benedictine’s Proposed Medical School
December 4, 2024: Big Step Forward: Dean Search Underway for Proposed New Catholic Medical School
July 1, 2024: Proposed Benedictine College Medical School Announced in USA Today

A New Catholic Medical School

It is crucial—for the health of our nation and for our duty to care well for the sick—that our doctors are not technocrats, but well-formed and well-educated men and women mindful of the dignity of the individual. These doctors must learn to see and care for the whole person.

The proposed Benedictine College School of Osteopathic Medicine will train 180 medical students per year whom we will then send forth to Catholic hospitals around the country—urban centers, rural communities, underserved areas—to bring the best medical care to those in need.

Our doctors will be trained in medicine, formed in their Catholic faith, and committed to the dignity of every person. The Benedictine College School of Osteopathic Medicine will teach and promote Christ-centered healthcare.

The Proposed Benedictine College School of Osteopathic Medicine will form doctors around four core values:

Infinite Dignity of the Human Person

Authentic Catholic Bioethics

Services to God by Serving Others

Formation of the Student

Mission

The mission of the Benedictine College School of Osteopathic Medicine is to educate medical students within a community of faith and scholarship to become skilled physicians dedicated to the physical, spiritual, and mental well-being of all individuals, in fidelity to the healing and teaching ministry of Jesus Christ through the magisterial teachings of the Catholic Church.

Vision

The Benedictine College School of Osteopathic Medicine seeks to Transform Culture in America by placing the essential dignity of the human person at the center of physician education.

The Next Steps

The first critical step in transforming healthcare in America is securing full accreditation as a College of Osteopathic Medicine, which requires $50 million in escrowed funds. Initial donations, loans, grants, and other funding will lay the groundwork for this historic school. These assets will enable Benedictine College to hire top-tier faculty, led by a distinguished Dean, develop a world-class curriculum, and cover essential expenses in preparation for opening. Our vision is to establish a medical school that will shape the future of healthcare in America.

With accreditation secured, plans in place, and faculty retained, we will build a beautiful, state-of-the-art medical school building on our campus in Atchison, Kansas, as a permanent home for our medical students and faculty.

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