The Thomas F. Frist Jr. COM at Belmont University has been granted preliminary accreditation status by the LCME and will begin accepting application for its first class in November 2023.
Belmont University is a private college located in Nashville, TN.
Frist COM has partnered with HCA Healthcare to provide clinical training sites for med students.
Individuals interested in applying here can sign up for an online info session here:
Frist College of Medicine Inquiry Form
It will be an MD medical school.
The new building is…interesting.
It’s pretty consistent with the rest of the architecture at Belmont.
Looks pretty nice (to my traditional tastes), from the outside anyway. I was expecting something like McIntyre Medical at McGill as “interesting”.
Thomas Frist Jr College of Medicine seems like a potentially confusing name, Frist Junior, or Junior College…
it’s named after the founder of HCA Healthcare, which is HQed in Nashville