Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine

This article is about the medical and graduate health science school. For the private liberal arts college in Painesville, Ohio, see Lake Erie College.
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
MottoTotam Personam Curamus
Motto in English
We Care for the Whole Person
TypePrivate medical school
Established1992
PresidentJohn M. Ferretti, D.O.
Students4,223[1]
Location
Erie
,
Pennsylvania
,
United States
CampusSuburban
Websitelecom.edu

The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) is a private medical school and academic health center in Erie, Pennsylvania. LECOM has a Branch Campus in Bradenton, Florida[2] and additional locations in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and Elmira, New York.[2] Founded in 1992, LECOM confers medical (D.O.), dental (DMD), podiatry (DPM), pharmacy (PharmD) degrees, as well as masters and doctoral degrees in the health sciences.

With over 2,200 enrolled medical students, the College of Osteopathic Medicine at LECOM is the largest and most applied to medical school in the United States.[1][3][4][5][6][7] In addition to traditional acceptance, the medical school offers early acceptance to qualified high school seniors and college underclassmen contingent upon pursuing BS/DO or BA/DO with affiliate universities.[8]

LECOM also operates one of the few accelerated three-year pharmacy programs in the country, and is one of 2 pharmacy schools in the country with a distance education program.[9]

LECOM is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education,[10] the American Osteopathic Association’s Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation, the Commission on Dental Accreditation, Council on Podiatric Medical Education, and the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education.

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  2. ^ a b "Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation". American Osteopathic Association. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
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  6. ^ "Preliminary Enrollment Report Fall 2015" (PDF). Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  7. ^ "Biggest Medical Schools". Kansas City Star.
  8. ^ "Early Acceptance Program". Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  9. ^ St. Martin, Tiffany (2008-07-31). "LECOM now the largest medical school in nation". Lakewood Ranch Herald. Retrieved 2008-08-01.[dead link]
  10. ^ "LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE". The Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE). Retrieved 15 October 2023.