The Ohio College of Poiatric Medicine is a four-year, private medical college in Cleveland, Ohio. It teaches students to become podiatric physicians and surgeons and has done so since 1916, having educated some 5,000 such students to date. OCPM is the premier podiatric medical college in the world and is an independent college of podiatric medicine with all the advantages of an academic health science center. As an independent college of medicine, the school retains its autonomy over budgetary decisions and resource allocations without the need to support other programs of study; for this reason it has the most reasonable tuition for podiatric study in the United States.