2025-2030 VCOM Strategic Plan

2.1.10. Design and evaluate new application evaluation methods and tools to enhance the recruitment and selection process. 2.1.11. Grow the internal VCOM scholarship endowment to include additional awards for OMS 1 students. 2.1.12. Work with the VCOM Office of Development and Alumni Affairs to encourage development of new sources of scholarships such as hospitals served by our students and graduates, alumni, foundations, and other organizations. 2.1.13. Create internships within VCOM’s International Outreach Division for students from VCOM’s affiliated undergraduate institutions (VT, AU, ULM) who are interested in osteopathic medicine. Strategic Objective 2.2: Inspire students and alumni to maintain a lifelong connection to VCOM. Action Steps: 2.2.1. Communicate strategically with students and graduates to create and enhance affinity for and loyalty to the College. 2.2.2 Showcase VCOM graduates to increase pride among alumni, students, faculty, and staff. 2.2.3. Develop a VCOM alumni magazine and enhanced website presence to increase communication about special event offerings to expand opportunities for alumni involvement. 2.2.4. Enhance and establish connections between alumni and students through alumni mentoring programs and engagement of alumni as clinical faculty for career specific rotations. 2.2.5. Recruit and support an active and engaged Alumni Advisory Board on each campus. Strategic Goal 3: Generate, promote, and disseminate medical knowledge in disease prevention, chronic disease management, community health, osteopathically distinct care, and public health practices. Strategic Objective 3.1: Increase and improve upon VCOM’s clinical facilities for each campus to offer distinct osteopathic medical practices offering primary care, sports medicine, and ONMM. Action Steps: 3.1.1. Complete/develop VCOM-Louisiana’s primary care clinic to offer family medicine, ONMM, and sports medicine. 3.1.1.a Develop a sports medicine fellowship and an ONMM residency on the Louisiana campus. 3.1.1.b. Collaborate with St. Francis Medical Center to house education for the family medicine residency program. 3.1.2. Purchase/develop a new clinical building for VCOM-Virginia’s sports medicine and ONMM practice and affiliate this practice with a local family medicine residency clinic. 3.1.3. Continue to strengthen relationships with local hospitals in the New River and Roanoke Valley for osteopathically distinct primary care residencies.

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