VCOM 2019 Annual Report

Purposeful Placement for Primary Care

V COM’s initial vision was to provide Virginia and the greater Appalachian Region and to promote joint biomedical research with Virginia Tech. Under a public/private partnership between VCOM and Virginia Tech, the College opened its doors to the first students in Blacksburg, Virginia in the fall of 2003 and graduated its first class in 2007. Between 2007 and 2016, VCOM Alumni completed residencies, and 323 have settled in Virginia with over a third of those in the Southwest region. This has moved the needle from Virginia ranking 38th in the country for primary care physicians per population to eighth in the country in 2018. In 2010, VCOM founded a second campus in collaboration with Spartanburg Regional Health System to address the healthcare shortages healthcare for the southwest and other medically underserved regions of

in the upstate region of South Carolina. The first students began their medical education at VCOM–Carolinas in the fall of 2011, and the campus graduated its first class in 2015. Alumni are beginning to establish medical practices in the state. Auburn University administration learned of the success of the VCOM/VT collaboration and formed a public/private collaboration to open a VCOM campus at Auburn University. VCOM-Auburn's inaugural class began in 2015 and graduated in May 2019. These graduates, who are entering residency this year, will move the needle for healthcare in Alabama, which currently ranks in the 45th- 50th percentiles for most healthcare outcomes. In a collaborative public/private partnership with the University of Louisiana-Monroe, VCOM broke ground on a new campus in 2018. The VCOM-Louisiana campus will address the physician shortage in the state, which currently ranks 39th in the U.S. for per capita primary care physicians. Plans are to open the campus in the summer of 2020.

2011

Inaugural class begins at VCOM-Carolinas.

The first class of students matriculate at VCOM-Auburn.

2015

2018

Ground broken for VCOM-Louisiana.

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HISTORY AND CAMPUSES