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The Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine (ACOM) is one of 35 accredited colleges of osteopathic medicine in the U.S. and the first school in the state of Alabama. Our Mission is to provide quality, learner-centered osteopathic education, research and service, while promoting graduate medical education, with emphasis on patient-centered primary care to serve the medically under served areas of Alabama and the nation. 

The campus is designed to provide the full student experience with a 110,000-square-feet facility equipped with the latest technology creating a productive learning environment for students. ACOM has a team of more than 100 faculty and staff that represent many academic and professional backgrounds. Most PhD faculty are medical school-trained and clinical faculty have an array of experiences as practicing physicians, including community-based, hospital-based and military service-based medicine.

ACOM delivers an integrated, systems-based curriculum in the pre-clinical years. The blended methodologies provide opportunities for engaged learning, formative assessment and deliberate practice of clinical reasoning.The third and fourth year clinical curriculum is delivered across Alabama, the Florida panhandle and the Mississippi gulf coast at 30 core rotation sites. These resources combined with an array of support services provide for the success of our students as they pursue a career in medicine.

The college's inaugural class of 162 students began in August 2013. Upon graduation of our first class in 2017, ACOM was granted seven-year accreditation. In December 2018, ACOM was granted a class size increase to 210 students.

 

View the statistics from our Inaugural Class of 2017 and our newest Class of 2023.

The ACOM Advantage

• Clinical Training: ACOM has an extensive network of more than 1,400 credentialed preceptors to provide clinical training at 31 core sites located throughout the state of Alabama, the Florida panhandle and the Mississippi gulf coast.
  
   
• Innovation: Promoting interprofessional education experiences with medical students, nursing students and social work students, and initiated immersive hospice core rotation required for all third-year students.
  
   
• Campus Expansions: Built dedicated Centers for Team-Based Learning, Research and Simulation, and constructed unique First Patient Memorial to remember anatomical donors.
  
   
• Student Fellowships: Anatomy and Osteopathic Principles & Practice Student Fellowship and first-of-its-kind Simulation Student Fellowship.
  
   
• Dual Degree/Concurrent Programs: DO/MBA and DO/MSM programs offered in partnership with Troy University Dothan. DO/MPH program offered in partnership with Samford University.
  
   
• National Recognition: A team of ACOM students won the national and international simulation tournaments in 2017. In 2020, ACOM students repeated their national simulation tournament win through virtual competition. ACOM's Simulation Center Director, Dr. John Gianinni received the Golden Apple Award for teaching from the American Medical Student Association in 2018.
  
   
• On-campus Housing: Dedicated, on-campus student apartment complex, Summerfield Square, offering studio, one- and two-bedroom units managed by Corvias.
  
   

Visit Dothan

Dothan has a little something for everyone. Home to the National Peanut Festival, the World's Smallest City Block and Top Chef: Kentucky winner, Kelsey Barnard Clark, we have the feel of a small town with amenities of larger cities. A city defined by friendly people, Dothan has welcomed the students, faculty and staff of ACOM as part of the community.

Downtown Dothan features KBC Eatery (owned by Clark) as well as several local coffee shops, gift shops and casual dining options. Foster Fest, held the first Friday night of the month (March - October) is a free, family-friendly street fest featuring local food trucks, live entertainment and activities for the entire family. The Plant is a music and event 
venue that began its life as a Coca Cola bottling plant.

Other community attractions include two AMC movie theaters, Adventureland Theme Park, Beaver Creek (the only Forever Wild Land Trust Trail in Alabama), the Dothan Botanical Gardens and the Wiregrass Museum of Art, just to name a few. For more information on lodging, dining, attractions and events, check out the Visit Dothan website.

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