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The Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine (ACOM) is one of nearly 40 colleges of osteopathic medicine in the U.S. and the first osteopathic medical 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 underserved 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 80 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 a hybrid curriculum model utilizing discipline and system-based clinical presentation approaches in the pre-clinical years. The blended methodologies provide opportunities for engaged learning, formative assessment and deliberate practice of clinical reasoning. These resources combined with an array of support services provide for the success of our students as they pursue a career in medicine. ACOM's third and fourth year clinical curriculum is delivered throughout the state of Alabama, Florida panhandle and beyond at community-based hospitals and clinics utilizing an extensive network of physicians with more than 10 years of osteopathic clinical training experience. 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.

View the statistics from our Inaugural Class of 2017 and our newest Class of 2022.

The ACOM Advantage

• 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 Samford University.
• National Recognition: A team of ACOM students won the national and international simulation tournaments in 2017, and ACOM's Simulation Center Director received the Golden Apple Award for teaching from the American Medical Student Association in 2018.
• 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.
• Clinical Training: ACOM has an extensive network of more than 1,400 credentialed preceptors to provide clinical training at 25 core sites located throughout the state of Alabama and Florida panhandle.
• On-campus Housing: Dedicated, on-campus student apartment complex, Summerfield Square, offering studio, one- and two-bedroom units managed by Corvias.

Focused Discussions - Chat Room Times and Speaker List

8AM-3:30PM (CT) / 9AM-4:30PM (ET)

• ACOM Admissions Office: Bob Willis, MS, Executive Director of Enrollment Management; and Linda Goodson, R.N., Director of Admissions