VCOM - Virginia 2017 Yearbook

student organizations

PM&R Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, a specialty committee of SAAO P hysical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) is a special interest group of SAAO that strives to educate VCOM students about a field of medicine that is not well known. PM&R medicine is described as the intersection between neurological disease management and

Eben Alexander, Chair

musculoskeletal rehabilitation. PM&R physicians are called physiatrists and do their best to bring patients back to maximum ability and health.

Students in this organization have a wide range of interests such as sports medicine, neurology, pain management and neuromuscular medicine.

ICM Integrative and

Complimentary Medicine, a specialty committee of SAAO I ntegrative and Complimentary Medicine is a special interest group of SAAO that works to promote health and wellness through preventative medicine.

Danyel Baker, Chair and good mental health

to find helpful methods for VCOM students and faculty in all specialties.

Members explore ways in which exercise, healthy diet

practices contribute to overall health. The organization looks

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