VCOM Administrative and Classified Staff Handbook

Professional Memberships VCOM is a member medical college in the following organizations: American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM), Virginia Osteopathic Medical Association (VOMA), and the Medical Society of Virginia (MSV), the South Carolina Osteopathic Medical Society (SCOMS), the Alabama Osteopathic Medical Association (ALOMA), and the Louisiana Osteopathic Medical Association (LOMA).

Recruitment Priorities

VCOM has focused recruitment efforts in three major areas:

Appalachian and Delta Regions VCOM recruits students from the socioeconomically depressed states within the southern Appalachian and Delta regions. These include the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, and the surrounding states of Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Southern Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, SE Missouri, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia. Students from these states or region are a priority for recruitment to enable VCOM to meet its mission to improve healthcare to these rural and medically underserved populations. Students from these states and regions, who meet VCOM’s minimum standards or greater, are a priority for interview. Rural VCOM has a commitment to recruiting additional students from all rural areas. It is VCOM’s commitment to meet the physician shortage in rural areas throughout the Eastern and Mid-United States, especially within Appalachia and the Delta regions as a priority recruitment area. Mission-Minded VCOM is committed to producing physicians to meet society's health care needs. VCOM seeks students who are compassionate, knowledgeable, and committed to quality health care for all. The Appalachian outreach and international outreach programs, in which all students may participate, were developed to assist students in developing the skills needed to provide compassionate and altruistic care whether for a rural area, a medically underserved population in an urban area, or in a developing country. VCOM seeks students who share this personal mission and commitment to those who are medically underserved and who have demonstrated a commitment to underserved populations in the past.

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