VCOM - Carolinas 2016 Yearbook

STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

school programs serving underprivileged children.

over $1100, which purchased and installed an oxygen concentrator in the Emergency Room at a VCOM international clinic site in the Dominican Republic. This year, AOASM collaborated with other organizations to host interactive workshops, including working with SOSA on a hands- on Open Reduction and Internal

Fixation (ORIF) lab with Michael Hoenig, MD, an orthopedic surgeon in Spartanburg, and with SAAO to host Delmas Bolin, MD, a sports medicine physician at VCOM–Virginia, as he presented new osteopathic manipulative techniques. These workshops were well received, and AOASM is grateful to the physicians for volunteering their time.

AOASM hosted the annual VCOM Olympics and Chili Cook- off in the fall, an event that brings first and second year students together in a series of fun and athletic head-to-head challenges, benefitting the school’s medical outreach programs. This year’s event helped the chapter to raise

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