2025-2030 VCOM Strategic Plan

Strategic Objective 3.2: Offer mobile clinics to rural communities that offer disease prevention, chronic disease management, community health, osteopathically distinct care, and public health practices. Action Steps: 3.2.1. Implement new outreach mobile clinics for all VCOM campuses. 3.2.2. Provide support to faculty and students in developing projects for the preventive medicine and public health research requirement. 3.2.3. Promote student clinical research in VCOM's rural and underserved clinic locations. 3.2.3.a. Provide opportunities for students to disseminate case reports and epidemiological research. 3.2.4. Assist faculty providing rural and medically underserved outreach to promote VCOM's community outreach efforts to provide compassionate patient care and public health information to the local communities where VCOM serves. 3.2.5. Create web pages with campus-specific information and faculty contacts for outreach programs and initiatives. 3.2.6. Assist each campus outreach team with promotional materials to recruit community partners and to provide information for community members in need of medical care. 3.2.7. Promote outreach activities through social media and the VCOM website. Strategic Objective 3.3: Improve the health of those living in states where VCOM campuses are located and in the surrounding states. Action Steps: 3.3.1. Expand Early Clinical Experience (ECE) opportunities that improve community health by integrating ECEs throughout the OMS 1 and OMS 2 years. 3.3.2. Expand opportunities for community clinical outreach projects. 3.3.3. Collaborate with other universities and colleges within our region to develop healthcare degree programs to meet the needs of the states we serve in the Appalachian and Delta regions. 3.3.4. Strengthen primary health system relationships with hospitals in our campus communities in order to create academic health center models for medical and healthcare solutions. Strategic Objective 3.4: Provide quality international clinical experiences through VCOM’s international continuous care clinics and affiliated hospitals. Action Steps: 3.4.1. Provide faculty development online seminars for physicians and clinical directors at VCOM affiliated international sites to enhance their skills and knowledge. 3.4.2. Provide weekly seminars for VCOM students on an international clinical rotation, clinic directors, and medical staff to enhance learning and collaboration. 3.4.3. Annually assess public health needs at each of VCOM’s affiliated international clinics in order to advance community health and population health to design and adapt programs to address both current and emerging public health needs in VCOM international sites.

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