VCOM - Virginia 2016 Yearbook

Highlights 2015-2016

12. LEADING GLOBAL HEALTH SEMINAR

13. DISASTER PREPAREDNESS TRAINING

12 For most of her professional life, Emily Esmaili, DO, VCOM Class of 2008, has traveled Asia and Africa serving as an expert in pediatrics for underserved areas. Esmaili returned to Blacksburg, Virginia, to speak to the students, faculty and staff about her journeys around the world. She recounted the food shortages, lack of nutritional education and clear poverty that affected so many of her patients. Her goal when speaking at the Leading Global Health Seminar on March 22, 2016, was to inspire students to take a step to fight problems that face many patients both in other countries and in rural Appalachia. 13 In the spring of 2016, VCOM–Virginia students took part in Disaster Preparedness Training - Basic Disaster Life Support (BDLS) to learn proper medical care procedures in a variety of staged scenarios. 14 Accepted Students Day is held each spring to welcome the upcoming class of first-year medical students. The 2016 event was full of information with opportunities to meet new classmates, potential roommates and future friends. Students had time to see the community and to meet with representatives from apartment complexes at the Information Fair.

14. ACCEPTED STUDENTS DAY 2016

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