Curriculum and Academics
While students at VCOM are educated in all basic medical sciences (as are their M.D. counterparts), VCOM students also receive approximately 200 extra hours of musculoskeletal/neuromuscular training. The school also offers a course in addiction medicine, and offers missionary medicine rotations. VCOM has permanent clinics located in Veron, Dominican Republic and Tegulcigalpa, Honduras. The school also hosts occasional mission trips to Guatemala and plans to offer trips to Africa in the future.
The school uses a system of "blocks" as opposed to semesters. Each block concerns a specific organ system, incorporating anatomy, physiology, microbiology, pharmacology, pathology, and osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) courses in relation to that system. The first 2 years consist of 8 blocks.
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