Page 14 - COMP Magazine - Winter 2018
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The Dean tasked COMP faculty with making the Longitudinal Tracks Programs one of
COMP’s signature lines for medical education that would serve as a pivot point in the
transformation in the manner that we train future physicians. The tracks programs provide
the opportunity for students to stand-out amongst a very crowded field of qualified
candidates for Graduate Medical Education training programs. The goal is to build
enough tracks so that each student will be required to participate in a track of their
own selection. The goal will be to have each of the tracks transition into a certification
or set the foundation for a dual degree program.
The Longitudinal Tracks provide innovative means to accomplish this goal and are the
future of how medical students will be trained. The goal is to graduate agile and flexible
physicians who have the skills necessary to thrive in our rapidly evolving medical practice
environment. COMP’s goal is to create physicians who will be ready for a very unsure future
in medicine and to be the leaders in the transformation that is ahead.
There are currently 550 COMP students enrolled in the tracks on the Pomona and
Lebanon campuses. COMP’s student government selected the Longitudinal Tracks
programs to be put forth as one of AACOM’s Outstanding Advancement in
Osteopathic Medical Education award. The Longitudinal Tracks were recognized by
the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA) as one of six
commendations that COMP received on the 2015 accreditation visit. During the
2015 Crystal & Cheers event in Lebanon, Oregon, about $70,000 was raised to
support the Longitudinal Tracks programs.
Longitudinal Chronic Care Course (LC3 Track): Patients are living much
longer and they are living with chronic diseases; not suffering from the acute
infections and acute diseases of the last century. Traditional methods of training
medical students have been focused on providing episodic, non-personalized, low
empathy care. In LC3 the students are paired with a patient to view care through
the patient’s eyes. This program allows students the opportunity to acquire the
skills that they will require to provide personalized, patient focused, continuous,
long-term, and holistic care. In Lebanon, Oregon our students are paired with
residents of the Veterans Home. On the Pomona Campus the students are paired
with patients living with diabetes, a hemodialysis patient, an adult patient living with a
mental disability, or a pediatric family. Also, in their third year of training on the Pomona
campus each student rotates at the Patient Care Center; during this rotation students
get the opportunity to participate as a member of an Inter-Disciplinary Care team.
COMP-Northwest LC3 track student Elizabeth Severson and Veterans Home patient.
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COMP’s signature lines for medical education that would serve as a pivot point in the
transformation in the manner that we train future physicians. The tracks programs provide
the opportunity for students to stand-out amongst a very crowded field of qualified
candidates for Graduate Medical Education training programs. The goal is to build
enough tracks so that each student will be required to participate in a track of their
own selection. The goal will be to have each of the tracks transition into a certification
or set the foundation for a dual degree program.
The Longitudinal Tracks provide innovative means to accomplish this goal and are the
future of how medical students will be trained. The goal is to graduate agile and flexible
physicians who have the skills necessary to thrive in our rapidly evolving medical practice
environment. COMP’s goal is to create physicians who will be ready for a very unsure future
in medicine and to be the leaders in the transformation that is ahead.
There are currently 550 COMP students enrolled in the tracks on the Pomona and
Lebanon campuses. COMP’s student government selected the Longitudinal Tracks
programs to be put forth as one of AACOM’s Outstanding Advancement in
Osteopathic Medical Education award. The Longitudinal Tracks were recognized by
the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA) as one of six
commendations that COMP received on the 2015 accreditation visit. During the
2015 Crystal & Cheers event in Lebanon, Oregon, about $70,000 was raised to
support the Longitudinal Tracks programs.
Longitudinal Chronic Care Course (LC3 Track): Patients are living much
longer and they are living with chronic diseases; not suffering from the acute
infections and acute diseases of the last century. Traditional methods of training
medical students have been focused on providing episodic, non-personalized, low
empathy care. In LC3 the students are paired with a patient to view care through
the patient’s eyes. This program allows students the opportunity to acquire the
skills that they will require to provide personalized, patient focused, continuous,
long-term, and holistic care. In Lebanon, Oregon our students are paired with
residents of the Veterans Home. On the Pomona Campus the students are paired
with patients living with diabetes, a hemodialysis patient, an adult patient living with a
mental disability, or a pediatric family. Also, in their third year of training on the Pomona
campus each student rotates at the Patient Care Center; during this rotation students
get the opportunity to participate as a member of an Inter-Disciplinary Care team.
COMP-Northwest LC3 track student Elizabeth Severson and Veterans Home patient.
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