Oceania University of Medicine

Oceania University of Medicine
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TypePublic-private
Established2002 (2002)
ChairmanTaffy Gould
Vice-ChancellorSatupaitea (Satu) Viali, BHB, MBChB (Auck), MPH (UNSW), FRACP, FCSANZ, FESC, FACC
Academic staff
53
Students340
Location
Apia
,
Samoa
Websitewww.oum.edu.ws

Oceania University of Medicine (OUM) is an Independent Samoa-based medical school established in 2002 and operated through a public-private partnership between the Government of Samoa and e-Medical Education, LLC, a Florida-based medical education management company. Its hybrid curriculum of distance-learning preclinicals and face-to-face clinical rotations  enrolls 333 students, as of March 2024, and 215 graduates are currently in residency/internship training or practicing medicine in numerous global locations, primarily Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Samoa, and the US.