VCOM 2023 Annual Report

The History of VCOM (continued)

Advancing a Mission of Excellence All four VCOM campuses boast excellent outcomes with a 94%, 96%, 97% and 99% first time pass rate on national board exams on the four campuses. The quality of VCOM graduates has become well known to residency programs in the Southeast United States and the College boasts a 99% to 100% residency match rate each year. As to meeting the mission: Over 70% of VCOM graduates have now entered primary care and 67% of alumni in practice are located in a rural setting or a setting designated federally as a medically underserved community.

Beyond the medical school campuses, to meet the needs of the rural areas of the states where the VCOM campuses are located, VCOM has developed many clinical hospital partnerships for student education and has continually supported the development of new residency programs. The hospitals for clinical training are shown later in this report. Advancing healthcare in underserved communities includes more than educating physicians, and VCOM continues to collaborate with other institutions to support healthcare programs. In 2019, VCOM partnered with Averett University to develop a Master of Science in Applied Healthcare and Data Analytics program that prepares

2020 CDC restrictions for the COVID-19 epidemic close in-person classes. VCOM

2021 The HWPRF brings the Appalachian College of

The Class of 2020 graduates with the first virtual online ceremonies across all three existing campuses. There were over 31,000 views of the videos, watched in 49 states in the U.S. and 45 countries from around the world. More than 800 videos were downloaded by viewers.

Construction is completed on the VCOM-Louisiana campus, ready for its inaugural class of students. All campuses start the 2020 2021 academic school year in the summer with classroom lectures online and safe distanced on-campus learning in labs.

Pharmacy (2020) and Bluefield University into the consortium. Mark Sanders, DO, begins his role as the second dean for the Louisiana campus. Heath A. Parker, DO, joins VCOM-Auburn as the second dean for the campus.

students don’t miss a single class or test due to VCOM TV and other in-place online programs. Matthew Cannon, DO, becomes the second dean for the Carolinas campus.

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