Rocky Vista University (RVU) is a private, for-profit medical school with campus locations in Englewood, Colorado, Ivins, Utah, and Billings, Montana.
In 2017, a second campus was opened in Ivins, Utah, admitting its first class of osteopathic medical students in the fall of 2017.
[4] RVU offers a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree at the Colorado, Utah, and Montana campuses.
Years 1 and 2 of the program consist primarily of classroom-based learning, focusing on the basic health sciences.
Clerkship sites for RVUCOM students include various hospitals and clinics in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Arizona and South Dakota.
[8][9] Parkview Medical Center in Pueblo, Colorado, has been awarded a five-year $770,000 federal grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to train primary care internal medicine residents.
[10] RVUCOM and the Center for Medical Education Excellence are currently working to establish additional residency programs in Colorado and Wyoming.
Advanced medical students of the college are periodically selected to work in the health clinic as Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) Fellows.