Motto | Totam Personam Curamus |
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Motto in English | We Care for the Whole Person |
Type | Private medical school |
Established | 1992 |
President | John M. Ferretti, D.O. |
Students | 4,223[1] |
Location | , , United States |
Campus | Suburban |
Website | lecom |
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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