From Student-Doctor to Doctor; 150 Walk Across Stage During Class of 2025 Commencement Week
The Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine Class of 2025’s hard work for four years was celebrated during Liberty University’s 2025 Commencement Week that featured a Graduation Gala, Military Commissioning Ceremony and a Hooding Ceremony. The week began on Wednesday, May 7th with a Commissioning Ceremony for Military Graduates inside the Blue Auditorium at LUCOM […]
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‘Christians first, student-doctors second’: LUCOM students help provide health clinics in El Salvador
The student-doctors at Liberty University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM) are actively training to be high-caliber medical professionals, but first and foremost they are being trained to be lights and vessels for Christ in the medical field. During the medical school’s Spring Break, March 24-29, a team of 11 student-doctors and three faculty traveled to […]
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LUCOM Earns 98.7 Percent Placement Rate at 2025 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 21, during the annual Match Day that saw LUCOM achieve a 98.7 percent placement in 2025. It was the fifth time in […]
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Q and A Session: Fall Break El Salvador Mission Trip
Last fall students from Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM) journeyed to El Salvador for a weeklong fall break mission trip. Read about the trip from their point of view as OMS-II students Jessica Assaad and Aviel Mavilla had a brief Question-and-Answer session with LUCOM when they returned. Give a brief overview of the […]
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LUCOM Accepts Record 10 LU MED 3+1 Applicants
What if students could earn their Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Biomedical Sciences from Liberty University, start medical school one year early? 10 applicants have the chance to experience that in the fall semester as they were hosted at Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM) for the LU MED 3+1 Accelerated Pathway interviews in early February. 10 […]
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LUCOM student-doctors demonstrate valuable research from diverse areas of medical science
A pivotal step in the research process is seizing opportunities to share one’s findings with others in the field, and in the medical profession, the results of research can illuminate ways to better treat and protect the human body for healthier generations. During the sixth annual Research Day at the Liberty University College of Osteopathic […]
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Travis Engel, DO, MSc Named NBOME National Faculty Chair
Former LUCOM graduate and current faculty member, Travis Engel, DO, MSc, was named the National Faculty Chair of Pediatrics for The National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners (NBOME) on Jan. 6. Engel was an inaugural graduate of LUCOM in 2018 and now serves as pediatric clinical faculty member and Chair of Pediatric Medicine for Centra […]
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LUCOM Welcomed Warren Kinghorn, M.D., Th.D. for 10th Annual Medical Bioethics Symposium
On Friday November 8, the Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM) Medical Library hosted its 10th annual Medical Bioethics Symposium with invited guest speaker, Warren Kinghorn, M.D., Th.D., to speak on Moral Injury in Healthcare Professionals. Kinghorn currently serves as an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center. He also serves as an […]
8 months ago
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OMS-III Students Earn Excellence in Research Award at ACS Meetings
A pair of OMS-III students, Tiffany Cho and Sima Michele-Sohi Lilly earned the Excellence in Research Award at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Meetings in late October. The award came from their presentation Elucidating a Key Mechanism of Perioperative and Postoperative Ileus: Microvascular Serum Leak-activation of the Cyclooxygenase Pathway Causing Colonic Dysmotility. Postoperative ileus […]
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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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