LUCOM Class of 2028 participates in White Coat Ceremony
A group of 162 student-doctors donned the symbol of their status as medical students and future physicians — the white coat — in the 11th annual White Coat Ceremony for the Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM), held over the weekend in the Center for Music and the Worship Arts, Concert Hall. The ceremony, […]
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LUCOM’s Timothy Hodge Earns School of Education’s Outstanding Quantitative Dissertation Award
Earlier this year Timothy Hodge, Director of the Center for Standardized Patients and Simulation, graduated with a PhD of Philosophy in Instructional Design and Technology from Liberty University. Prior to his graduation date he was granted a prestigious honor from the School of Education – the Outstanding Quantitative Dissertation Award. Timothy started earning his doctorate […]
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LUCOM Hosts Successful Inaugural Summer Medical Academy
Rising seniors from across the Commonwealth and surrounding states attended Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Inaugural Summer Medical Academy on June 3, 2024. The free six-and-a-half-hour program featured four stations: Clinical Experiences, Hands-On OMT, Cadaver Lab/Anatomy and Emergency Medicine. In Clinical Experiences the students learned and practiced suturing and surgical knot-typing with a surgeon. […]
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LUCOM Faculty and Students Have Article Published in Nature Science Journal
Along with other faculty members, Charles Joseph, MD headed a group of students to create a pilot study for Identifying delay in glymphatic clearance of labeled protons post-acute head trauma utilizing 3D ASL MRI (arterial spin labeling). “This was a combined effort of Sports Medicine faculty and my research group of students investigating whether we could identify […]
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LUCOM Celebrates Class of 2024 in Commencement Week Festivities
The Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine Class of 2024’s hard work for four years was celebrated last week during Liberty University’s 2024 Commencement Week that featured a Graduation Gala, Military Commissioning Ceremony and a Hooding Ceremony. The week began on Wednesday evening with the Graduation Gala, where students gathered inside the Amazement Square Banquet […]
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OMS-II Student Davis Melin Earns First Place in Mayo Clinic Wound Care Symposium
LUCOM Marketing Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM) OMS-II student, Davis Melin, earned first place on his poster presentation at the 2024 Mayo Clinic Wound Care Symposium in early March. His poster, titled Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine and Wound Care: Physiology, Principles, and Application of Manual Lymphatic Techniques to Promote Wound Healing, won first place […]
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LUCOM Earns Perfect Match Rate at 2024 Match Day Celebration
Byline: LUCOM Marketing Alongside all medical schools nationally, Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM) celebrated its fourth-year student-doctor class inside the Montview Ballroom on the campus of Liberty University on Friday, March 15, during the annual Match Day that saw LUCOM achieve a 100 percent match in 2024. It was the second time in […]
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LUCOM Hosts Fifth Annual Family Medicine Procedure Day
Byline: LUCOM Marketing Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM) hosted its annual Family Medicine Procedure Day on Friday inside the Center for Medical and Health Sciences in Lynchburg, Va. It was the fifth straight time the event took place since LUCOM was founded. The event was created to showcase the many procedures that Family Medicine […]
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Description and Characterization of Three-Dimensional Human Mast Cell Progenitor Spheroids In Vitro
Rebecca Praetzel and Chris Kepley, PhD, FAAAAI recently had an article published in LUCOM’s CureusJournal of Medicine called “Description and Characterization of Three-Dimensional Human Mast Cell Progenitor Spheroids In Vitro.” Abstract Human mast cells (MC) are an essential component of the immune system as they uniquely store and release a wide range of soluble mediators […]
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President Costin speaks at LUCOM Convocation, urges medical students to represent Christ in their careers
Speaking to a room full of student-doctors at LUCOM on Wednesday during the medical school’s weekly Convocation, Liberty President Dondi Costin emphatically shared the importance of not delaying God’s purpose for their lives. Costin’s message marked the conclusion of LUCOM’s Convocation series titled “Waiting on God,” and he stated that his message to the student-doctors […]
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