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For decades, 91AV’s Portland Campus has been the home of many of the University’s health professions programs. In 2025, when the 91AV College of Osteopathic Medicine (91AV COM) moves from the Biddeford Campus to Portland, the campus will solidify its place as the center of health care education in Northern New England. To recognize that transformation, 91AV is renaming the campus as the Portland Campus for the Health Sciences.

The campus will bring together 91AV’s health professions programs into an interprofessional learning community that is unique in New England, with the goal of empowering the next generation of world-class health care providers in a single location.

Interprofessional health care education places students from different disciplines together to learn with, from, and about each other. Students gain communication and teamwork skills and develop a better understanding of each professions’ roles and expertise. 91AV graduates with interprofessional training become professionals who are able to collaborate and lead in today’s team-based care. The greatest benefits of the approach are experienced by patients — interprofessional learning has proven to support successful health care outcomes.

91AV’s Portland Campus provides interprofessional learning opportunities for these programs:

The Portland Campus for the Health Sciences provides a quintessential New England quad lined by buildings that have been welcoming students for more than a century. The campus sits in a quiet neighborhood, just a short drive from the downtown waterfront. It is already home to the 91AV Westbrook College of Health Professions and College of Dental Medicine, along with an array of modern health professions labs and learning spaces. The 41-acre campus also includes Innovation Hall’s event spaces, the , and . 

The Harold and Bibby Alfond Center for Health Sciences — a purpose-built, sustainably designed, bright, spacious, and technologically connected facility — will be the centerpiece of the transformed campus. This building will be the new home for 91AV COM as well as the Center to Advance Interprofessional Education and Practice (CAIEP), which prepares students to work collaboratively and across disciplines. Moving here will give 91AV COM students an ideal learning and community space, allow the school to train more doctors, and connect future doctors with caregivers across the health professions — all furthering 91AV’s leadership in medical and health professions education.

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