VCOM 2020 Annual Report

ALUMNI BATTLE AGAINST COVID-19

Community Support As an emergency

Patient Care and Preparation I would not consider myself on the front lines

right now. I am incredibly thankful for the training that I received to prepare for this pandemic. I’m currently

medicine physician, I feel that the support from our

covering primary care, obstetrics, inpatient pediatrics and nursery care. To help my colleagues, I’ve also begun rounding on adult patients admitted to the hospital. I’ve been privileged to join a team with three other physicians tasked with opening the Community Memorial Hospital in preparation for the anticipated COVID-19 surge. This task has been daunting, but it’s encouraging to see the energy and support for this process from hospital staff to the entire South Hill community. Thank you to all of my teachers along the way. I could not have had this kind of experience without you all.”

local communities during the COVID-19 pandemic has been truly amazing. Notes of encouragement from patients, family members and those in the community have helped ease the stress of front line work while we learn and implement new safety procedures and protocols so we may best treat those in need. As a faculty member of VCOM- Auburn, it was an honor to help organize and donate PPE supplies from the College’s Simulation Center, Department of Surgery and Anatomy Lab to the healthcare providers at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika, Alabama.” Jeremy J. White, DO, PhD Class of 2007, VCOM-Virginia, Associate Dean for Center for Simulation and Technology at VCOM-Auburn; Emergency Medicine, Coliseum Medical Center, Macon, GA

Steven Foster, DO Class of 2016, VCOM-Virginia, Family Medicine with Obstetrics, VCU Community Memorial Hospital, South Hill, VA

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