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Academics - D.O.

Our rigorous program guides students to become dedicated, disciplined physicians

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Years 1 & 2

In the first two years of the comprehensive medical education program, learning takes many forms: in the lecture hall, in the laboratory, and through interaction with standardized patients and 24 high fidelity human simulators – including male and female adults, children, newborns and a robot that simulates delivery of a baby.

In a survey of current students, the emphasis on early clinical experience was their number one reason for attending WVSOM. Students learn a variety of clinical skills with real patients as early as their first year. These curricular activities integrate the basic sciences and their application to the patient.

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Preclerkship Education

Osteopathic Principles and Practices (OPP)

 

Years 3 & 4

During years three and four, students have the advantage of WVSOM's Statewide Campus. The system of seven main sites located throughout West Virginia with additional surrounding partner hospitals and clinics allows students to hone clinical skills in physician offices and hospital settings.

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Pre-Doctoral Clinical Education

WVSOM Statewide Campus

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Faculty

You won't find a graduate student teaching a class at WVSOM. Whether they are teaching in the classroom, clinic or research labs, our dedicated faculty do more than instruct ⁠— they pass along their passion for medicine to the next generation of healers. Students are instructed by clinical doctors and Ph.D. level scientists. The open friendliness of the faculty, combined with a desire to produce quality doctors, allows students to meet the high standards of success at WVSOM.
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Osteopathic Principles & Practices (OP&P)

Osteopathic medicine is a complete system of medical care with a philosophy that combines the needs of the patient with the current practice of medicine, surgery, and obstetrics, that emphasizes the interrelationship between structure and function and that has an appreciation of the body's ability to heal itself.
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Clinical Evaluation Center (CEC)

The mission of the Clinical Evaluation Center (CEC) is to educate lifelong learners from multiple disciplines via innovative and state-of-the-art teaching and assessment modalities. The CEC is dedicated to serve, first and foremost, the students of the WVSOM community and offers expanded opportunities to promote collaboration and research among multiple health care teams.

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Statewide Campus

As a third and fourth-year medical student at the WVSOM, you will fulfill your clinical rotations in West Virginia hospitals across seven regions, giving you the opportunity to fall in love with practicing medicine in the Mountain State.
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