VCOM College Catalog and Student Handbook

• Foster medical students with a desire and demonstrated commitment to an enhanced understanding of global healthcare and care for diverse populations. • Foster primary care and healthcare for all medically underserved populations. • Foster education addressing healthcare disparities through diversity, equity, and inclusion. Goal 3: Generate, promote, and disseminate medical knowledge in disease prevention, chronic disease management, community health, osteopathically distinct care, and public health practices. Priorities • Improve the health of those living in the Appalachian states. • Improve the health of those living in the Delta states. • Improve the health of those living in states where VCOM campuses are located and in the surrounding states. • Promote a better understanding of the importance of public health practices and compassionate care through international outreach. Goal 4: Advance scientific knowledge, medical education, and patient outcomes through research. Priorities • Promote faculty opportunities for growth through multidisciplinary biomedical, clinical, preventive medicine, educational, and osteopathic principles and practice research and scholarly activity. • Value faculty research and scholarly activity through opportunities for funding, collaboration, and promotion in rank. • Support student and resident opportunities for participation in research and scholarly activity. • Provide opportunities for research collaboration across campuses, with university partners, and with healthcare partners. Goal 5: Serve as an advocate of osteopathic medicine, rural health, and affordable, accessible healthcare for all. Priorities • Promote primary care practices. • Promote osteopathically distinct practices. • Develop a diverse workforce of physicians who will serve and care for medically underserved populations. • Provide medical outreach to rural communities and the uninsured. • Promote global health through international outreach. • Develop a portfolio of philanthropic grants and scholarships that will enhance VCOM graduates’ ability to provide care for rural and medically underserved populations. VCOM Values VCOM’s faculty, staff, and students have embraced certain values. These values are woven into the institution and are included in how staff are evaluated, recognizing that the staff holds these values as critical to the integrity of the college. VCOM VALUES: Professionalism, integrity, duty, compassion, altruism, knowledge, and critical thinking. These are the values VCOM set forth in 2003 and are maintained today.

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