WVSOM Faculty
WVSOM has the necessary academic personnel to design, administer, and teach all phases of our curriculum.
As of February 1, 2011, WVSOM's full-time faculty includes:
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19 full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, all with Ph.D. degrees. These include faculty in all the major basic science disciplines, including Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Immunology, and Pharmacology.
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18 full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty in the Department of Clinical Sciences. These include:
- D.O.s and M.D.s, who are board certified in Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Psychiatry, and Pathology
- Two clinical psychologists
- A family nurse practitioner
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One Ph.D. specialist in medical education and program evaluation.
- Six faculty members (all D.O.s) in the Department of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine.
Faculty Roster
In addition, as of June 2010, our faculty included:
- 15 full-time academic administrators with doctoral degrees
- one part-time salaried faculty member seven adjunct clinical instructors in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) who assist with those laboratories
- 52 "visiting lecturers" who give occasional guest lecturers in the Year 1 and Year 2 curriculum
- 42 lab instructors for Clinical Skills labs
- 26 off-campus Preceptors for Clinical Skills labs
- 430 Adjunct Clinical Faculty for Year 3 and Year 4 clinical rotations
- ten Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs); and
- approximately 1,500 "preceptors" who accept students for elective clinical rotations, of whom 430 have formal appointments as adjunct clinical faculty.