Accreditation is by the Bureau of Professional Education of the American Osteopathic Association and the North Central Association. 84 percent come from Oklahoma. About 20 percent are members of a minority population. Represented are an accomplished research scientist, a freelance photographer, a dance instructor, an university instructor, a preacher, a pharmacist, a paramedic and several teachers and business owners. It keeps faculty in the mainstream of current knowledge and offers them and students a different learning experience in addition to classroom work.
Research falls within two general categories, clinical and biomedical.
Clinical research has goals in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of various diseases and behavioral medicine. Funding is received from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education, the Whitehall Foundation, Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology, Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and various pharmaceutical companies. Work in this area also includes projects on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases and the modulation of cellular immune responses by drugs of abuse. The College sponsors a variety of clinical research programs through its Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Oklahoma Area Health Education Center. Included are a laboratory and field study on psychological factors in cardiovascular disease, effects of compliance to home self breast exams, prevention of alcoholism, drug abuse, suicide, type II diabetes and a computerized home treatment system for patients recovering from traumatic brain injuries.