College of Optometry - The Visionary Fall 2015

COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY • 35 The NSU Board of Trustees recently voted to create three new colleges and programs, adding to the university’s more than 150 degree offerings. The additions include estab- lishing a College of Allopathic Medicine (M.D. program) to complement NSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O. program), a College of Engineering and Comput- ing, and an undergraduate Farquhar Honors College. n COLLEGE OF ALLOPATHIC MEDICINE The College of Allopathic Medicine will help meet the growing need of D.O. and M.D. physicians nationally and regionally. It also will complement the education currently offered in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, along with the university’s extensive offerings of health professions degree pro- grams. NSU will be the only university in the south- eastern United States and the first in Florida to house both an osteopathic and allopathic medical school. n COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING The College of Engineering and Computing will combine the Ph.D. and master’s degree programs formerly housed in the Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences and the bachelor’s degree programs across computer science, engineering, and information sciences from the former Farquhar College of Arts and Sci- ences. The college will offer a new Bachelor of Science in General Engineering degree (pending approval by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Com- mission on Colleges) that will begin in the fall of 2016. n FARQUHAR HONORS COLLEGE The undergraduate Farquhar Honors College will be made up of students who meet high academic stan- dards, including those who are also part of certain highly competitive scholarship programs. Students who complete the Honors College programs will receive special acknowledgment on their diplomas and transcripts and at commencement ceremonies. u NSU Announces Three New Colleges to Benefit Students and Meet Market Demand Hospital Corporation of America East Florida opened Westside Emergency Services, part of Westside Regional Medical Center (WRMC), in part- nership with NSU in May. The facility is located on the Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus in the University Park Plaza shopping center at University Drive and SW 36th Street. The emergency room provides the surrounding community with immediate access to experienced, board-certified emergency room physicians and offers a full range of emergency care services for children and adults. In the future, the offsite emer- gency room will serve as a residency site offering valuable hands-on training to NSU medical stu- dents and various clinical training opportunities for students in other NSU health professions programs. Additionally, the facility includes a full-service laboratory, a pharmacy, and advanced imaging equipment that includes a 16-Slice CT, ultra- sound, and two cutting-edge digital X-ray units. Emergency transportation is provided to indi- viduals requiring in-patient hospital care. u Westside Regional Medical Center Opens ER