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This is an article on the Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine. The graduate school started in is one of 19 Osteopathic Medical Schools across the Unnited States and is located in Pikeville, Kentucky. The school offers a degree of Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O) to its graduates. The school was started in the 1990's and has changed significantly since its start. The curriculum invlves those of typical medical schools with some unique courses due to the Osteopathic approach. Growth has been a major part of the school with the creation of a new building for the school itself. The school was even ranked as high as 5th of all medical schools in the area of rural medicine.

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History
In 1993 a wealthy group of citizens from the area of Paintsville, Kentucky decided to establish and start a new medical school in the region due to a lack of properly trained physicians in the rural area. Eventually the American college of Osteopathic Medicine was created as the first of four names of the graduate school which would offer students a degree of Doctor of Ostepathic medicine should the complete the requirements and graduate. The school was then renamed later as the Southern College of Osteopathic Medicine before merging with a local college in Pikeville, Kentucky due to unstable financial funding for the instituition Upon merging with the college, the medical school was once again renamed the Pikeville College School of Osteopathic Medicine. Years later the college became formally known as the University of Pikeville, this resulted in the medical being renamed to its current name of the Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine The school first shared its classrooms within the university campus before a new building was completed in fall of 2012 which accomodates for all students and faculty of KYCOM along with containing the dining hall for the students from the University of Pikeville. The purpose of the school, while graduates are fully prepared to specialize in any medical field, is to reduce the intense shortage of primary care physicians in the Appalachia region. Student acceptance based on applicants is basically focused on students from a rural Appalachian background. It is one of nineteen osteopathic colleges in the country, one of three in Kentucky, and one of five in Appalachia.

Curriculum
FIRST AND SECOND YEAR

These first two years are vital to help the medical student learn about diseases and treatments along with lab practicals where students practice on deceased human specimans. The classes have exams and lectures along with the COMLEX exams which students ust pass to successfully complete their respected years whether first or second.

FIRST YEAR
 * Gross Anatomy 501 14
 * Physiology 502 11
 * Biochemistry 503 8
 * Principles of Osteopathic Medicine I 504 3
 * Principles of Osteopathic Medicne II 505 3.5
 * Cell Biology/Developmental Microanatomy 506 6
 * Osteopathic Patient Care I 507 3
 * Osteopathic Patient Care II 508 8
 * Neuroscience 509 7
 * Current Issues in Medicine I 510 1
 * Current Issues in Medicine II 511 1
 * Immunology 512 2.5

SECOND YEAR
 * Pathology I 601 5
 * Pathology II 602 7
 * Pediatrics 603 4
 * Clinical Applications of Osteopathic Medicine I 604 3
 * Clinical Applications of Osteopathic Medicine II 605 3.5
 * Microbiology 606 8
 * Osteopathic Patient Care III 607 3
 * Osteopathic Patient Care IV 608 3
 * Obstetrics/Gynecology 609 3
 * Current Issues in Medicine III 610 1
 * Current Issues in Medicine IV 611 1
 * Pharmacology I 612 6
 * Pharmacology II 613 5
 * Internal Medicine 614 8
 * Ophthalmology/Otolaryngology 615 2.5
 * Nutrition 616 1.5
 * Psychiatry 617 1
 * Surgery 618 3

THIRD AND FOURTH YEAR

These two last years of the medical school student are mainly spent away from the medical school as students observe and practice under trained and registered physicians and surgeons to develop an understanding of where they might specialize and apply for residency training programs upon completion of their education at KYCOM.


 * 1) 40 weeks of required Core Clinical Rotations (10 blocks)
 * 2) 24 weeks of required Selective Clinical Rotations (6 blocks)
 * 3) 16 weeks of Elective Clinical Rotations (4 blocks)
 * 4) 4 weeks for COMLEX-USA Level 2 preparation (1 block)

Growth and notable faulty
With the addition of the new Coal Building in the fall of 2012, the instituition could allow for greater class sizes, thus more applicants were accepted, the prior 300 students grew to 400.

Governor Paul E. Patton, the president of the University of Pikeville, is the president of the Kentucky College of Medicine as well. He is the former 52nd governor of the state of Kentucky. Dr.Boyd R. Buser D.O. is the Dean of the Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Rankings and Progress
KYCOM was ranked fifth out of all medical schools in the nation in the 2014 U.S. News & World Report’s edition of Best Graduate Schools. Since its formal start in 1997, it is estimated that around 700 physicians have been products of the Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine with aroound 60 percent of graduates working in the Appalachian region and near Eastern Kentucky.