VCOM College Catalog and Student Handbook

Any person having inquiries concerning VCOM’s compliance with the regulations implementing Section 504, is directed to contact the Director for Student and Institutional Academic Success, who also serves as the Section 504 Campus Coordinator for Students at: Auburn Campus

Carolinas Campus Kylee Ousley, MEd 350 Howard Street Spartanburg, SC 29303 Phone: 864-327-9996 Virginia Campus Kenna Colley, EdD 2265 Kraft Dr. Blacksburg, VA 24060 Phone: 540-231-3725

Kathy Friedenreich, MEd 910 South Donahue Drive Auburn, Alabama 36832 Phone: 334-442-4061 Louisiana Campus Jana Carlson, EdD 4408 Bon Aire Drive Monroe, Louisiana 71203 Phone: 318-342-7179

Recruitment Priorities

VCOM has focused recruitment efforts in four major areas:

Appalachian and Delta Regions VCOM recruits students from the socioeconomically depressed states within the southern Appalachian and Delta regions. These include the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, and the surrounding states of Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Southern Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, SE Missouri, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia. Students from these states or regions are a priority for recruitment to enable VCOM to meet its mission to improve healthcare to these rural and medically underserved populations. Students from these states and regions, who meet VCOM’s minimum standards or greater, are a priority for interview. Rural VCOM has a commitment to recruiting additional students from all rural areas. It is VCOM’s commitment to meet the physician shortage in rural areas throughout the Eastern and Mid-United States, especially within Appalachia and the Delta regions as a priority recruitment area. Minority VCOM recognizes the lack of medical care to minority populations; therefore, VCOM actively recruits minority students from minority populations that are currently underrepresented in health care. The population of the United States is becoming increasingly diverse; thus, VCOM seeks a student body that will ultimately meet the needs of a diverse society. Each year VCOM ranks as one of the top osteopathic medical schools for minority students.

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