Benedictine College’s plans to create a medical school are advancing as the school seeks to develop an accredited institution based on top-tier medical science while combating the spread of political ideology in the field.

The Saint Padre Pio Institute for the Relief of Suffering, School of Osteopathic Medicine is still waiting to be accredited, but its aim is to fill a vacuum that critics of the medical landscape say has been created by adherence to racialization, bodily experimentation, and achieving ideological, rather than scientific, ends.