“Literally, the campus, the curriculum, the staff - everything was built and hired and prepared and planned for you.” “This is the school that is everything that I need to be successful,” said Gatewood, a member of the Choctaw Nation who also has Cherokee and Chickasaw ancestry. Leaders say the physician training program is the only one on a Native American reservation and affiliated with a tribal government. Gatewood is now set to be part of the first graduating class at Oklahoma State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation.
