College of Osteopathic Medicine

CHSU College of Osteopathic Medicine

central California’s Newest State of the Art Medical School

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From the Dean

Welcome to California Health Sciences University College of Osteopathic Medicine (CHSU-COM)…your medical school journey begins now. The CHSU-COM is making history in the Central Valley and we hope you are inspired to join the Class of 2024, 2025, 2026, and 2027 medical students already hard at work and learning in the Valley’s new medical school. With many of our students recruited from the Valley, we graduate physicians that improve the health care in the region for generations to come.”

– John Graneto, DO, MEd

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Courses

Curriculum & Clerkships

Innovative Curriculum

Our innovative, active learning, curriculum highlights a systems-based,
clinically integrated model and includes medical Spanish,
culinary medicine, population health research and
interactive technologies.

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Advantages of an interactive curriculum

Simulation Center

Students participate in regularly scheduled simulations with manikins and human standardized patients at our state-of-the-art Simulation Center.

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Teaching Kitchen

Students learn the basics of nutrition and culinary medicine through team-based learning and hands-on cooking classes designed to align with the philosophy of osteopathic medicine.

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Local Rotations

Students gain hands-on experience through their clinical clerkship rotations at over 70 local regional hospitals, clinics, and health care facilities.

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Dedicated Educators

Nanami Yoshioka

Faculty Feature – Nanami Yoshioka

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Nanami Yoshioka, MA, is the Assistant Manager of Standardized Participant Program and an Adjunct Instructor of Medical Simulation at the CHSU Simulation Center. She is involved in simulation curriculum development that prepares students for work in the field. She also is the liaison between faculty and the Standardized Participants, developing case scenarios for students to experience during simulations. Learn more about how Yoshioka is shaping the next generation of medical professionals.

Faculty Feature – Dr. Lisa Chun

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Lisa Chun, DO, MS.MEd.L, FNAOME, CPE, OHPF, is the Associate Dean of Osteopathic Clinical Education and Simulation, and Professor of Osteopathic Principles and Practices at CHSU-COM. In addition to teaching Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM), she oversees the four clinical departments at CHSU-COM. She specializes in OMM, a hands-on treatment DOs use to diagnose illness and injury and encourage the body’s natural tendency toward self-healing. Learn more about Dr. Chun’s work and why she believes OMM is such a valuable diagnostic tool.

Jonathan Terry

Faculty Feature – Dr. Jonathan Terry

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Jonathan Terry, DO, QME, DABPN, ABIHM, is the Interim Assistant Dean for Community Clinical Education and Associate Professor of Specialty Medicine at CHSU-COM. Dr. Terry also practices integrative psychiatry in his private practice where he helps his patients understand the relationship between the mind and body, helping patients address the root issues that can prevent them from being able to cope with a physical ailment. Dr. Terry started as a preceptor to CHSU medical students, but soon became a full-time faculty member, allowing him to have a bigger impact on student learning. See how he is shaping the next generation of medical professionals.

Faculty Feature – Dr. Francisco Ibarra

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Francisco Ibarra, PharmD, BCCCP, is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Education at CHSU-COM. In addition to teaching, he is a full time emergency medicine clinical pharmacist, which allows him to take what he learns in the field and apply that to his lesson plans at CHSU. Learn more about Dr. Ibarra’s work and why he loves teaching the next generation of osteopathic physicians.

Faculty Feature – Dr. Sidney James

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Dr. Sidney James, is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Specialty Medicine at CHSU-COM. Dr. James is passionate about teaching medical students how to use ultrasound devices as a diagnostic tool, helping them familiarize themselves with it starting early in their first year. As a practitioner that uses point-of-care ultrasound with his patients in private practice and the ER, Dr. James knows how beneficial it is to be able to make clinical decisions using handheld ultrasound devices that connect directly to a smartphone or tablet. Learn more about Dr. James’ work and why point-of-care ultrasound is such an important tool at the bedside.

Faculty Feature – Dr. Sara Goldgraben

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Sara Goldbraben, MD, MPH, MBA is an Assistant Professor of Specialty Medicine at CHSU-COM. Dr. Goldgraben teaches the Culinary Medicine course where students learn how healthy food can be used to help prevent and heal different disease states. In these hands-on culinary classes at the CHSU-COM Teaching Kitchen, students learn how to cook healthy meals that can prevent diseases related to the specific body system they are studying in their didactic courses. Learn more about Dr. Goldgraben’s work and why she believes preventative medicine is so important.

Financial Aid

We are committed to helping our students and families understand, apply for, and secure financing for their educational journey with CHSU by providing personal assistance as they work through the financial aid process.

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Finding Your Residency

Residency Matching

CHSU-COM Graduates have the opportunity to match for residencies in local hospitals, hospital systems, clinics and health care facilities in many different specialties.

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Central Valley Residency Programs

California’s Central Valley has a number of residency positions available in local hospitals, clinics and health care facilities and it continues to grow each year as demand for physicians increases.

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Growth of GME in the Valley

CHSU is dedicated to working with existing facilities and new clinical settings to start or increase the number of graduate medical education (GME) residency positions in the Central Valley.

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