The School of Integrative Health Medicine will be the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine

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He announces the next steps in its development, adding a new name, structure plans and a location.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. , June 30, 2022–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Alice L. School of MedicineWalton announces the next steps in its development, adding a new call that reflects its founder’s commitment and plans for a state medical education establishment. to be built in Bentonville, Arkansas.

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Surrendered through Polk Stanley Wilcox; Community garden, view from J Street (Photo: Business Wire)

A call rooted in that of its founder

Founded in 2021 through philanthropist Alice Walton, the College of Medicine (formerly known as the College of Medicine and Integrative Health Sciences) will offer a four-year medical degree program that integrates traditional medicine with holistic principles and self-care practices. Leading physicians and clinical minds, the first medical school of its kind will help students cope with the demanding fitness situations of the twenty-first century with mental, emotional, physical and non-secular conditioning and will feature an adjacent clinic for clinical education in those concepts. The School of Medicine seeks to be a national medical school with the aim of hosting its inaugural elegance in 2025, pending programmatic and institutional accreditation. *

The Board of Directors of the Alice L. School of MedicineWalton held its first assembly and voted unanimously to approve the call on June 29.

Walton’s deep commitment to building holistic health care includes creating the Whole Health Institute and partnering with the Cleveland Clinic and Washington Regional Medical System to create a transformative health care system. its founder: Alice L. Walton School of Medicine.

“We are honored to upload Alice L. Walton on behalf of the School of Medicine, highlighting our founder’s determination to reinvent medical education,” said Walter Harris, chief operating officer of the Alice L School of Medicine. Walton is anchored in global fitness principles and training philosophies, in a position to attract the most sensible skill and create a conduit for a new generation of global fitness leaders. “

Based on evidence-based training approaches, the program will include rigorous education in global fitness, humanities, integrated fitness approaches, study methods, and complex technologies, with a specific focus on interprofessional collaboration, intellectual fitness, social determinants of fitness, and nutrition. . Equity, diversity and inclusion will be priority areas. Students, the university, and school staff will not only learn to take care of themselves, but also accentuate it in their own lives.

State-of-the-art facilities to be in Bentonville

High resolution renderings can be downloaded HERE

Arkansas-based Polk Stanley Wilcox has been chosen as the lead architect for the Alice L School of Medicine structure project. Currently in the design phase, the 154,000-square-foot structure will begin in spring 2023, with the purpose of completing and welcoming the first elegance in the fall of 2025, pending accreditation. The medical school will be east of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, and will connect via trails to its sister organization, Whole Health Institute.

“The design integrates construction into the community and into the community, engaging the land as an abstraction of Ozark geology that embraces the principles of embodied medicine and the holistic connection between mental, physical and non-secular well-being,” said Wesley Walls. AIA, director, Polk Stanley Wilcox.

The construction design contains 4 grades and will feature learning rooms and small group rooms, library, clinical training spaces, administrative offices, student room, theater, recreational and wellness areas, etc. Also an underground parking lot for cars. as a car park in front of visitors all the design.

Designed as an extension of Crystal Bridges Forest, the trails are made larger to perfection throughout the school campus; the ridges of the construction design create valleys, give shade and generate perspectives within and beyond. The front corner of the construction rises above the floor plane, creating a protective canopy that allows the network through and into the construction. Whether arriving on foot, by motorcycle or by vehicle, the campus invites scholars and visitors under the summary “cliff shelter” on the public façade of the building facing J Street.

The external features of the rooftop park and surrounding site, designed through New York-based design studio OSD, concentrate on the building’s holistic integration with the forests of Crystal Bridges. Site landscape features include wooded meditation and foraging and healing gardens, wetlands, outdoor classrooms, urban agricultural space, and a rooftop terrace that connects to balconies, a cafeteria, and an amphitheater.

“The School of Medicine is poised to be an inspiring learning environment that supports wellness, focuses on innovation, and prepares physicians for the long term to be agents of change,” said Alice Walton, founder of the School of Medicine. pave the way for the next generation of holistic physicians and healthcare professionals. This exclusive, site-adapted building will welcome students, staff and visitors to explore this beautiful campus, which offers a broader view of the quality of life in our region and beyond. . “

*The Faculty of Medicine intends to submit a candidate application with the Summer 2022 Medical Education Liaison Committee.

About Alice L. Walton School of Medicine

The project of the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine is to create a new paradigm of medical education that integrates a holistic technique to traditional medicine. Founded in 2021 through philanthropist Alice Walton, the School of Medicine will offer a four-year medical degree program. that integrates traditional medicine with holistic principles and practices of self-care. Taught by leading physicians and clinical minds, the first medical school of its kind will help academics cope with the demanding physical situations of the twenty-first century with a mental, emotional and physical perspective. and non-secular fitness. Currently, the School of Medicine is seeking programmatic and institutional accreditation with the goal of hosting its inaugural elegance in 2025. Learn more about ALWmedschool. org.

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