VCOM - Virginia 2016 Yearbook

SOSA Student Osteopathic Surgical Association

Terry Hoffman Jr., National Liaison; Daniel Tiller, President; Ravi Choxi, Vice President; Jacob Mace, Secretary; Ankur Patel, Treasurer

T he purpose of the Student Osteopathic Surgical Association (SOSA) is to represent and educate future osteopathic surgeons at VCOM. The organization helps students achieve this through many different activities which include: stressing the understanding of osteopathic principles in relationship to disease in the practice of surgery; helping to promote education in the field of surgery, including gowning and gloving, scrubbing, sterile technique, operating room behavior, instrumentation, universal precautions, osteopathic manipulative management of the surgical patient, and additional skills necessary to the specialty.

Student Osteopathic Orthopedic Association Committee Special Interest Group of SOSA

Craig Callovini, Chair

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