Students come to KCU Medical School for Accepted Students Day

Saturday, March 23 was Accepted Students Day at the KCU Medical School in Joplin.

About half of the incoming class of just over 160 medical students and their family members toured the south Joplin facility. What can the students expect from here?

“The first two years they’ll be here in Joplin for classes, says Meghan Denney, assistant director of admissions.

“We also have early clinical experiences for them,”Denny continues. “Our largest opportunity for these students is ‘Score One for Health’ where they go into area elementary schools and do their physicals every year to get them used to actually interacting with patients.”

She says other clinical opportunities exist at Freeman and Mercy hospitals in Joplin

She says the incoming students come from all over the United States and several foreign countries.

Incoming medical student Josiah Ohyabefun is originally from Basseterre in St. Kitts and Nevis in the Carribbean. He says the Joplin medical school is the right fit for him.

“I interviewed at Howard University in Virginia and also here,” Oyabefun says. “When I compared the two I saw this one as being miles above. Quite frankly, the way they talk about service lines up with what I want to do in terms of medical missions and all of that.”

Oyabefun has been living in Crete, Nebraska and working in the pharmaceutical industry since graduating from college two years ago.

He says he hopes to become a trauma surgeon after graduating from KCU.