Community-based Clinical Education
Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM) uses a community-based clinical education model for the third- and fourth-years of medical education. Our clinical partners work in conjunction with LUCOM to provide excellent clinical experiences in a diversity of sites located throughout Virginia, and clinical sites in Illinois, Texas, Mississippi and Pennsylvania in the third year and at affiliated sites across the U.S. in the fourth year. As a Liberty osteopathic medical student, you will be provided with inpatient clinical experiences at hospitals and medical centers, as well as outpatient experiences at hospital-based clinics, free-standing clinics, and physicians’ offices. The availability of elective opportunities will maximize your career options and enrich your undergraduate medical education as you consider potential specialties.
As a third-year student-doctor, your core rotations are designed to expose you to the breadth of medical knowledge, and to standardize the learning experience in this year. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to perform clinical rotations at our core sites provided below.
As a fourth-year student-doctor, you will participate in clinical educational experiences designed to prepare you for Graduate Medical Education (GME) following medical school. There is flexibility in selecting clinical experiences in multiple specialties. Clinical rotations are comprised of clinical experiences in which the specialties, locations, and preceptors are identified by student-doctors and may be completed at affiliated sites with LUCOM-credentialed preceptors. This flexibility will allow you to set up a fourth-year schedule time to optimize preparation for GME in the specialty of your choice and to gain important experience in the field prior to residency interviews.
Credentialed Clinical Faculty
View LUCOM credentialed clinical faculty demographics by gender and race/ethnicity in the table provided below. The data presented in the table below is only representative of individuals who consented to sharing their respective information.
**This table displays preceptor demographics for 398 of LUCOM’s 1,143 credentialed physicians who elected to disclose corresponding information
LUCOM has an extensive list of credentialed clinical faculty, view the roster by specialty.
For more information about Core Rotation Sites and Elective Sites, email the Office of Clinical Education at LUCOMClinicalEducation@liberty.edu.
OMS-IV student doctors have the option to complete selective and elective rotations at institutions other than our Core site affiliates by submitting an affiliation agreement request on CORE-ELMS. Such sites are referred to as an “Auditions”, “Away” or “4th Year” site.
Submitting an affiliation agreement request does not guarantee that we will be able to finalize an agreement with the requested institution. New agreement requests can take 4-6 months or longer to process. You should plan to have backup rotations in place with institutions we are currently affiliated with in case the Office of Affiliations is unable to come to agreeable terms with the institution, or it takes longer than 4-6 months to process.
Student doctors can utilize the CORE-ELMS Research Center to search for Away Sites where an affiliation agreement already exists.
All email correspondence regarding affiliation agreements should be sent to LUCOMAffiliations@liberty.edu. Do not email individual staff members regarding affiliation agreements.