VCOM 2023 Annual Report

About VCOM International Medical Outreach Programs 2003-2023

100,000 Patients seen per year

To ensure the clinics are sustainable, VCOM has forged strategic partnerships in each of the countries where the clinics were established. These partnerships include ministries of health, local community leaders and organizations, local medical schools and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In addition to providing medical care to those who need it most, the relationships between VCOM and its partners have led to infrastructure improvements at the clinics, including additions of emergency rooms, patient waiting areas, a record system, technology enhancements and childcare areas, ensuring that the quality of medical care in those regions is improved even when VCOM students and faculty are not in country. These experiences give VCOM students an advantage in the care of a rapidly expanding Spanish culture in the U.S. They also provide opportunities for VCOM students and faculty to engage in medical research. VCOM students and faculty have presented award-winning research at national Bureau of International Osteopathic Medicine (BIOM) research competitions, national American Osteopathic Association meetings and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and Global Seminar. The College has received grants from the CDC and provided internal REAP funding on vector-borne diseases and DNA sequencing. VCOM’s comprehensive approach to international outreach demonstrates that American medical schools can make a positive sustainable difference in the care of the underserved in the U.S. and abroad.

at VCOM-affiliated international clinics

More than 150 International Medical Outreach Trips since 2004

Nearly 4,600 VCOM Students have participated in International trips

More than 400 VCOM Alumni have volunteered to attend International trips as faculty physicians since their graduation

More than 75,000 International patients have been seen by students and faculty physicians over 20 years Nearly 25 International research projects have begun or have been presented as research abstracts More than 800 prosthetic legs provided to patients in collaboration with Hope to Walk

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