LMU-DCOM E-Newsletter
Summer 2011 Issue
Summer 2011 Issue
www.LMUnet.edu/dcom/
Greetings from LMU-DCOM!
As the month of July is quickly winding down and we
are all gearing up for yet another academic year, Lincoln Memorial University—DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine is proud to look back on what has
been a very successful year marked by some important
milestones in the school’s history. As the new Admissions Recruiter for LMU-DCOM, it is my pleasure to
share with you the college’s exciting news and developments, and keep you updated on all the important
information pertinent to your Pre-Medical students.
I will be looking to schedule visits with you during the
fall or spring semesters, to speak with you further
about LMU-DCOM and hopefully present the information in person to your students.
LMU-DCOM Receives Full
Accreditation
Following a February visit from the
American Osteopathic Association—
Commission on Osteopathic College
Accreditation, LMU-DCOM is proud
to announce that it was granted its full
accreditation by AOA—COCA on
May 1, 2011. Additional information
on accreditation can be found at
www.aoacoca.org/ .
LMU-DCOM Dean Named
President-Elect of AOA
In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me
or any member of our Admissions Office with any
questions. We are here to assist you and your students
and facilitate their admission process. I look forward to
hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Juliette Egnatz
Admissions Recruiter
(423) 869-6478
juliette.egnatz@lmunet.edu
Ray E. Stowers, DO, FACOFP
Health Sciences Vice President
LMU-DCOM Dean
LMU-DCOM Graduates Its First Class
During its recent annual business
meeting in Chicago, the American
Osteopathic Association named LMUDCOM’s Dean, Ray E. Stowers, DO,
president-elect of the AOA. This prestigious appointment came only three
months after Dr. Stowers was awarded
the Paul Grayson Smith, Sr. Physician
of the Year Award by the Tennessee
Osteopathic Medical Association
(TOMA), during their annual conference in Gatlinburg in April.
May 14, 2011 was a historical day for LMU-DCOM as
its Inaugural Class of 2011 walked across the graduating stage before tossing their caps in celebration of
becoming the first set of LMU-DCOM osteopathic
physicians. The commencement address was delivered
by Dr. Karen Nichols, president of the American Osteopathic Association.
The Class of 2011 is now entering residencies in communities within 28 different states, as far as Hawaii
and as close as Knoxville, Tenn. Seventy-five percent
of the class will be entering a primary care residency in
the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN and emergency medicine. The other
25% will be entering a residency in areas of specialty
care, including surgery, urological surgery, psychiatry,
orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology, physical med &
rehabilitation, neuromusculoskeletal/OMT and pathology.
For more detailed information on the residency placement of our Class of 2011, please visit the following
links:
- Residency Placement by Location
- Residency Placement Analysis
- Map of Residency Placements
LMU-DCOM Welcomes Its Class of 2015
After a year-long, thorough selection process by the
DCOM admissions staff and the faculty advisors, we
are happy to be welcoming the Class of 2015, the newest addition to the DCOM family. The 162 spots of this
new class were filled from a pool of 3,000 applicants,
of which 405 were interviewed on campus.
The Class of 2015 is a diverse group of students, representing several different ethnic races, including American Indian or Native Alaskan, Asian, AfricanAmerican and Hispanic among others. Sixty percent of
the class comes from the Southern Appalachian region,
including 55 students from the state of Tennessee, 13
from Kentucky, 10 from Virginia, two from Georgia
and one from Arkansas. The other 40% will be joining
us from other states as far as Alaska and Hawaii.
On Tuesday, July 26, the new class will arrive on campus for a detailed orientation, which will last through
Thursday the 28th and end with a nice evening Barbeque with the college’s faculty and staff. Classes for the
new class will begin on Friday, July 29, and their
White Coat Ceremony will then follow, scheduled to
take place on Saturday, September 24, in LMU’s Tex
Turner Arena.
Dr. Ray E. Stowers, an AOA boardcertified family physician, has been
instrumental in the development of
future osteopathic physicians for many
years and has been a big advocate of
rural medicine particularly. Dr. Stowers will undoubtedly continue to have
a big impact on the growth of osteopathic medicine around the nation.
For more information about Dr. Ray
E. Stowers, click here.
About LMU-DCOM
The DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine is located on the campus of
Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tenn., a small town nestled in
the beautiful mountains of the Appalachian region, only a few miles from
the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The state-of-the-art college
was founded on August 1, 2007, and
opened its doors to its inaugural class
on August 3, 2007.
The region’s rural setting is key to
upholding LMU-DCOM’s mission of
producing outstanding and caring osteopathic physicians who will focus
on providing health care in underserved communities in Appalachia and
across the nation.
In addition to offering the Doctor of
Osteopathic Medicine (DO) program,
LMU-DCOM also offers a Physician
Assistant (PA) program, as well as a
DO-MBA program for students wishing to complement their education
with a business degree. A Postbaccalaureate Medical Sciences program is also offered for students who
need to strengthen their science
knowledge and grade point average
before applying to the DO program.
More information about LMU-DCOM
can be found at www.LMUnet.edu/
dcom/ .
PA Program News

Inaugural Class Graduation:
On Saturday, July 30, LMU-DCOM will graduate its first PA
class in the Sam and Sue Mars Performing Arts Center in the
Duke Hall of Citizenship. All 32 students from the PA Class
of 2011 have recently completed their clinical rotations in
various locations across the nation, and some even overseas.
They will be awarded a Master of Medical Science degree in
Physician Assistant Studies (MMS) and will be receiving notification of their scores from the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam over the next few weeks.

Class of 2012 White Coat Ceremony & Rotations:
On Saturday, June 18, LMU-DCOM held the White Coat Ceremony for the PA Class of 2012.
All 57 students received their symbolic physician’s garment in anticipation of their clinical
year. Students will be completing several rotations in many different locations including Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Florida, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Alaska. Just like some of the students from the PA
Class of 2011, a few of our 2012 PA students will also have the opportunity to complete rotations overseas in places like Australia and Uganda.
For more information on the PA program’s clinical year schedule, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/dcom/pa/academics.shtml .

Welcome to The Class of 2013:
As classes for the PA students began in May,
the new class of 2013 has been in full swing
for quite some time as they already near the
end of their first summer term. A total of 80
students make up this new PA class, ranking
the LMU-DCOM PA program within the top
5% in the nation in terms of class size.
Approximately 66% of the class comes to us
from the surrounding Appalachian region, with
the majority of those from Tennessee, Kentucky
and Virginia. The average GPA for the new class
is 3.4 and the average age is 26 years old.
LMU-DCOM PA Class of 2013
For more information about the PA Class of 2013, please click here.

Upcoming Accreditation Visit:
Following the DO program’s full accreditation in May 2011, LMU-DCOM’s PA program is
gearing up for their full-accreditation visit by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. (ARC—PA), which is scheduled to take place in midSeptember 2011. Results from the visit will be expected in the spring.
For more information on the LMU-DCOM PA program accreditation, please visit
www.arc-pa.org .
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Sciences Program

What Is the PMSP?
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Science Program is a 12-month certificate program of study
designed for college graduates who want to pursue a career in medicine and who need to receive additional academic training or wish to improve their academic credentials in order to
develop a successful application portfolio for admission into medical school.
The PMSP follows a rigorous curriculum of upper-level biology courses and medical gross
anatomy, which they take at LMU-DCOM with LMU-DCOM faculty and alongside LMUDCOM students.
One of the biggest advantages for students in the PMSP is that they will be guaranteed an interview at LMU-DCOM for admission into the DO program. In fact, 80% of this past year’s
PMSP students were accepted into the DO class of 2015, adding cultural diversity to the LMU
-DCOM student population. LMU’s PMSP faculty is dedicated to continue to produce successful medical school applicants.
For more information on the PSMP’s curriculum, overview, admissions and more, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/academics/pmsp/index.shtml or contact Dr. Amiel Jarstfer at
amiel.jarstfer@lmunet.edu or at 423-869-6364.
LMU-DCOM Facilities
Expansion
With the many programs within LMU’s
Division of Health Sciences, including
the DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine, the Caylor School of Nursing, and the many other undergraduate,
pre-professional, graduate and professional programs offered at LMU, it is
clear that these areas of study are a primary focus for the university. Building
on this emphasis, LMU is currently undertaking construction of a new Math &
Science building, expected to open in the
fall of 2012. This massive four-story building will be 120,000 square-feet and will
house numerous state-of-the-art lecture
halls, classrooms, laboratories and study
halls, and will feature some of the best
and latest technology available.
In addition to housing all the undergraduate and pre-professional math
and science academic programs, this
building will also serve as an expansion
to the LMU-DCOM facilities, with certain labs that will be reserved for use by
the DO students. The building will also
be home to the PMSP program and to the
future proposed LMU College of Veterinary and Comparative Medicine.
Lincoln Memorial University
Future Math & Sciences Building
LMU-DCOM E-Newsletter
Summer 2011 Issue
Summer 2011 Issue
www.LMUnet.edu/dcom/
Greetings from LMU-DCOM!
As the month of July is quickly winding down and we
are all gearing up for yet another academic year, Lincoln Memorial University—DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine is proud to look back on what has
been a very successful year marked by some important
milestones in the school’s history. As the new Admissions Recruiter for LMU-DCOM, it is my pleasure to
share with you the college’s exciting news and developments, and keep you updated on all the important
information pertinent to your Pre-Medical students.
I will be looking to schedule visits with you during the
fall or spring semesters, to speak with you further
about LMU-DCOM and hopefully present the information in person to your students.
LMU-DCOM Receives Full
Accreditation
Following a February visit from the
American Osteopathic Association—
Commission on Osteopathic College
Accreditation, LMU-DCOM is proud
to announce that it was granted its full
accreditation by AOA—COCA on
May 1, 2011. Additional information
on accreditation can be found at
www.aoacoca.org/ .
LMU-DCOM Dean Named
President-Elect of AOA
In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me
or any member of our Admissions Office with any
questions. We are here to assist you and your students
and facilitate their admission process. I look forward to
hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Juliette Egnatz
Admissions Recruiter
(423) 869-6478
juliette.egnatz@lmunet.edu
Ray E. Stowers, DO, FACOFP
Health Sciences Vice President
LMU-DCOM Dean
LMU-DCOM Graduates Its First Class
During its recent annual business
meeting in Chicago, the American
Osteopathic Association named LMUDCOM’s Dean, Ray E. Stowers, DO,
president-elect of the AOA. This prestigious appointment came only three
months after Dr. Stowers was awarded
the Paul Grayson Smith, Sr. Physician
of the Year Award by the Tennessee
Osteopathic Medical Association
(TOMA), during their annual conference in Gatlinburg in April.
May 14, 2011 was a historical day for LMU-DCOM as
its Inaugural Class of 2011 walked across the graduating stage before tossing their caps in celebration of
becoming the first set of LMU-DCOM osteopathic
physicians. The commencement address was delivered
by Dr. Karen Nichols, president of the American Osteopathic Association.
The Class of 2011 is now entering residencies in communities within 28 different states, as far as Hawaii
and as close as Knoxville, Tenn. Seventy-five percent
of the class will be entering a primary care residency in
the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN and emergency medicine. The other
25% will be entering a residency in areas of specialty
care, including surgery, urological surgery, psychiatry,
orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology, physical med &
rehabilitation, neuromusculoskeletal/OMT and pathology.
For more detailed information on the residency placement of our Class of 2011, please visit the following
links:
- Residency Placement by Location
- Residency Placement Analysis
- Map of Residency Placements
LMU-DCOM Welcomes Its Class of 2015
After a year-long, thorough selection process by the
DCOM admissions staff and the faculty advisors, we
are happy to be welcoming the Class of 2015, the newest addition to the DCOM family. The 162 spots of this
new class were filled from a pool of 3,000 applicants,
of which 405 were interviewed on campus.
The Class of 2015 is a diverse group of students, representing several different ethnic races, including American Indian or Native Alaskan, Asian, AfricanAmerican and Hispanic among others. Sixty percent of
the class comes from the Southern Appalachian region,
including 55 students from the state of Tennessee, 13
from Kentucky, 10 from Virginia, two from Georgia
and one from Arkansas. The other 40% will be joining
us from other states as far as Alaska and Hawaii.
On Tuesday, July 26, the new class will arrive on campus for a detailed orientation, which will last through
Thursday the 28th and end with a nice evening Barbeque with the college’s faculty and staff. Classes for the
new class will begin on Friday, July 29, and their
White Coat Ceremony will then follow, scheduled to
take place on Saturday, September 24, in LMU’s Tex
Turner Arena.
Dr. Ray E. Stowers, an AOA boardcertified family physician, has been
instrumental in the development of
future osteopathic physicians for many
years and has been a big advocate of
rural medicine particularly. Dr. Stowers will undoubtedly continue to have
a big impact on the growth of osteopathic medicine around the nation.
For more information about Dr. Ray
E. Stowers, click here.
About LMU-DCOM
The DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine is located on the campus of
Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tenn., a small town nestled in
the beautiful mountains of the Appalachian region, only a few miles from
the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The state-of-the-art college
was founded on August 1, 2007, and
opened its doors to its inaugural class
on August 3, 2007.
The region’s rural setting is key to
upholding LMU-DCOM’s mission of
producing outstanding and caring osteopathic physicians who will focus
on providing health care in underserved communities in Appalachia and
across the nation.
In addition to offering the Doctor of
Osteopathic Medicine (DO) program,
LMU-DCOM also offers a Physician
Assistant (PA) program, as well as a
DO-MBA program for students wishing to complement their education
with a business degree. A Postbaccalaureate Medical Sciences program is also offered for students who
need to strengthen their science
knowledge and grade point average
before applying to the DO program.
More information about LMU-DCOM
can be found at www.LMUnet.edu/
dcom/ .
PA Program News

Inaugural Class Graduation:
On Saturday, July 30, LMU-DCOM will graduate its first PA
class in the Sam and Sue Mars Performing Arts Center in the
Duke Hall of Citizenship. All 32 students from the PA Class
of 2011 have recently completed their clinical rotations in
various locations across the nation, and some even overseas.
They will be awarded a Master of Medical Science degree in
Physician Assistant Studies (MMS) and will be receiving notification of their scores from the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam over the next few weeks.

Class of 2012 White Coat Ceremony & Rotations:
On Saturday, June 18, LMU-DCOM held the White Coat Ceremony for the PA Class of 2012.
All 57 students received their symbolic physician’s garment in anticipation of their clinical
year. Students will be completing several rotations in many different locations including Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Florida, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Alaska. Just like some of the students from the PA
Class of 2011, a few of our 2012 PA students will also have the opportunity to complete rotations overseas in places like Australia and Uganda.
For more information on the PA program’s clinical year schedule, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/dcom/pa/academics.shtml .

Welcome to The Class of 2013:
As classes for the PA students began in May,
the new class of 2013 has been in full swing
for quite some time as they already near the
end of their first summer term. A total of 80
students make up this new PA class, ranking
the LMU-DCOM PA program within the top
5% in the nation in terms of class size.
Approximately 66% of the class comes to us
from the surrounding Appalachian region, with
the majority of those from Tennessee, Kentucky
and Virginia. The average GPA for the new class
is 3.4 and the average age is 26 years old.
LMU-DCOM PA Class of 2013
For more information about the PA Class of 2013, please click here.

Upcoming Accreditation Visit:
Following the DO program’s full accreditation in May 2011, LMU-DCOM’s PA program is
gearing up for their full-accreditation visit by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. (ARC—PA), which is scheduled to take place in midSeptember 2011. Results from the visit will be expected in the spring.
For more information on the LMU-DCOM PA program accreditation, please visit
www.arc-pa.org .
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Sciences Program

What Is the PMSP?
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Science Program is a 12-month certificate program of study
designed for college graduates who want to pursue a career in medicine and who need to receive additional academic training or wish to improve their academic credentials in order to
develop a successful application portfolio for admission into medical school.
The PMSP follows a rigorous curriculum of upper-level biology courses and medical gross
anatomy, which they take at LMU-DCOM with LMU-DCOM faculty and alongside LMUDCOM students.
One of the biggest advantages for students in the PMSP is that they will be guaranteed an interview at LMU-DCOM for admission into the DO program. In fact, 80% of this past year’s
PMSP students were accepted into the DO class of 2015, adding cultural diversity to the LMU
-DCOM student population. LMU’s PMSP faculty is dedicated to continue to produce successful medical school applicants.
For more information on the PSMP’s curriculum, overview, admissions and more, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/academics/pmsp/index.shtml or contact Dr. Amiel Jarstfer at
amiel.jarstfer@lmunet.edu or at 423-869-6364.
LMU-DCOM Facilities
Expansion
With the many programs within LMU’s
Division of Health Sciences, including
the DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine, the Caylor School of Nursing, and the many other undergraduate,
pre-professional, graduate and professional programs offered at LMU, it is
clear that these areas of study are a primary focus for the university. Building
on this emphasis, LMU is currently undertaking construction of a new Math &
Science building, expected to open in the
fall of 2012. This massive four-story building will be 120,000 square-feet and will
house numerous state-of-the-art lecture
halls, classrooms, laboratories and study
halls, and will feature some of the best
and latest technology available.
In addition to housing all the undergraduate and pre-professional math
and science academic programs, this
building will also serve as an expansion
to the LMU-DCOM facilities, with certain labs that will be reserved for use by
the DO students. The building will also
be home to the PMSP program and to the
future proposed LMU College of Veterinary and Comparative Medicine.
Lincoln Memorial University
Future Math & Sciences Building
LMU-DCOM E-Newsletter
Summer 2011 Issue
Summer 2011 Issue
www.LMUnet.edu/dcom/
Greetings from LMU-DCOM!
As the month of July is quickly winding down and we
are all gearing up for yet another academic year, Lincoln Memorial University—DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine is proud to look back on what has
been a very successful year marked by some important
milestones in the school’s history. As the new Admissions Recruiter for LMU-DCOM, it is my pleasure to
share with you the college’s exciting news and developments, and keep you updated on all the important
information pertinent to your Pre-Medical students.
I will be looking to schedule visits with you during the
fall or spring semesters, to speak with you further
about LMU-DCOM and hopefully present the information in person to your students.
LMU-DCOM Receives Full
Accreditation
Following a February visit from the
American Osteopathic Association—
Commission on Osteopathic College
Accreditation, LMU-DCOM is proud
to announce that it was granted its full
accreditation by AOA—COCA on
May 1, 2011. Additional information
on accreditation can be found at
www.aoacoca.org/ .
LMU-DCOM Dean Named
President-Elect of AOA
In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me
or any member of our Admissions Office with any
questions. We are here to assist you and your students
and facilitate their admission process. I look forward to
hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Juliette Egnatz
Admissions Recruiter
(423) 869-6478
juliette.egnatz@lmunet.edu
Ray E. Stowers, DO, FACOFP
Health Sciences Vice President
LMU-DCOM Dean
LMU-DCOM Graduates Its First Class
During its recent annual business
meeting in Chicago, the American
Osteopathic Association named LMUDCOM’s Dean, Ray E. Stowers, DO,
president-elect of the AOA. This prestigious appointment came only three
months after Dr. Stowers was awarded
the Paul Grayson Smith, Sr. Physician
of the Year Award by the Tennessee
Osteopathic Medical Association
(TOMA), during their annual conference in Gatlinburg in April.
May 14, 2011 was a historical day for LMU-DCOM as
its Inaugural Class of 2011 walked across the graduating stage before tossing their caps in celebration of
becoming the first set of LMU-DCOM osteopathic
physicians. The commencement address was delivered
by Dr. Karen Nichols, president of the American Osteopathic Association.
The Class of 2011 is now entering residencies in communities within 28 different states, as far as Hawaii
and as close as Knoxville, Tenn. Seventy-five percent
of the class will be entering a primary care residency in
the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN and emergency medicine. The other
25% will be entering a residency in areas of specialty
care, including surgery, urological surgery, psychiatry,
orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology, physical med &
rehabilitation, neuromusculoskeletal/OMT and pathology.
For more detailed information on the residency placement of our Class of 2011, please visit the following
links:
- Residency Placement by Location
- Residency Placement Analysis
- Map of Residency Placements
LMU-DCOM Welcomes Its Class of 2015
After a year-long, thorough selection process by the
DCOM admissions staff and the faculty advisors, we
are happy to be welcoming the Class of 2015, the newest addition to the DCOM family. The 162 spots of this
new class were filled from a pool of 3,000 applicants,
of which 405 were interviewed on campus.
The Class of 2015 is a diverse group of students, representing several different ethnic races, including American Indian or Native Alaskan, Asian, AfricanAmerican and Hispanic among others. Sixty percent of
the class comes from the Southern Appalachian region,
including 55 students from the state of Tennessee, 13
from Kentucky, 10 from Virginia, two from Georgia
and one from Arkansas. The other 40% will be joining
us from other states as far as Alaska and Hawaii.
On Tuesday, July 26, the new class will arrive on campus for a detailed orientation, which will last through
Thursday the 28th and end with a nice evening Barbeque with the college’s faculty and staff. Classes for the
new class will begin on Friday, July 29, and their
White Coat Ceremony will then follow, scheduled to
take place on Saturday, September 24, in LMU’s Tex
Turner Arena.
Dr. Ray E. Stowers, an AOA boardcertified family physician, has been
instrumental in the development of
future osteopathic physicians for many
years and has been a big advocate of
rural medicine particularly. Dr. Stowers will undoubtedly continue to have
a big impact on the growth of osteopathic medicine around the nation.
For more information about Dr. Ray
E. Stowers, click here.
About LMU-DCOM
The DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine is located on the campus of
Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tenn., a small town nestled in
the beautiful mountains of the Appalachian region, only a few miles from
the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The state-of-the-art college
was founded on August 1, 2007, and
opened its doors to its inaugural class
on August 3, 2007.
The region’s rural setting is key to
upholding LMU-DCOM’s mission of
producing outstanding and caring osteopathic physicians who will focus
on providing health care in underserved communities in Appalachia and
across the nation.
In addition to offering the Doctor of
Osteopathic Medicine (DO) program,
LMU-DCOM also offers a Physician
Assistant (PA) program, as well as a
DO-MBA program for students wishing to complement their education
with a business degree. A Postbaccalaureate Medical Sciences program is also offered for students who
need to strengthen their science
knowledge and grade point average
before applying to the DO program.
More information about LMU-DCOM
can be found at www.LMUnet.edu/
dcom/ .
PA Program News

Inaugural Class Graduation:
On Saturday, July 30, LMU-DCOM will graduate its first PA
class in the Sam and Sue Mars Performing Arts Center in the
Duke Hall of Citizenship. All 32 students from the PA Class
of 2011 have recently completed their clinical rotations in
various locations across the nation, and some even overseas.
They will be awarded a Master of Medical Science degree in
Physician Assistant Studies (MMS) and will be receiving notification of their scores from the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam over the next few weeks.

Class of 2012 White Coat Ceremony & Rotations:
On Saturday, June 18, LMU-DCOM held the White Coat Ceremony for the PA Class of 2012.
All 57 students received their symbolic physician’s garment in anticipation of their clinical
year. Students will be completing several rotations in many different locations including Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Florida, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Alaska. Just like some of the students from the PA
Class of 2011, a few of our 2012 PA students will also have the opportunity to complete rotations overseas in places like Australia and Uganda.
For more information on the PA program’s clinical year schedule, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/dcom/pa/academics.shtml .

Welcome to The Class of 2013:
As classes for the PA students began in May,
the new class of 2013 has been in full swing
for quite some time as they already near the
end of their first summer term. A total of 80
students make up this new PA class, ranking
the LMU-DCOM PA program within the top
5% in the nation in terms of class size.
Approximately 66% of the class comes to us
from the surrounding Appalachian region, with
the majority of those from Tennessee, Kentucky
and Virginia. The average GPA for the new class
is 3.4 and the average age is 26 years old.
LMU-DCOM PA Class of 2013
For more information about the PA Class of 2013, please click here.

Upcoming Accreditation Visit:
Following the DO program’s full accreditation in May 2011, LMU-DCOM’s PA program is
gearing up for their full-accreditation visit by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. (ARC—PA), which is scheduled to take place in midSeptember 2011. Results from the visit will be expected in the spring.
For more information on the LMU-DCOM PA program accreditation, please visit
www.arc-pa.org .
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Sciences Program

What Is the PMSP?
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Science Program is a 12-month certificate program of study
designed for college graduates who want to pursue a career in medicine and who need to receive additional academic training or wish to improve their academic credentials in order to
develop a successful application portfolio for admission into medical school.
The PMSP follows a rigorous curriculum of upper-level biology courses and medical gross
anatomy, which they take at LMU-DCOM with LMU-DCOM faculty and alongside LMUDCOM students.
One of the biggest advantages for students in the PMSP is that they will be guaranteed an interview at LMU-DCOM for admission into the DO program. In fact, 80% of this past year’s
PMSP students were accepted into the DO class of 2015, adding cultural diversity to the LMU
-DCOM student population. LMU’s PMSP faculty is dedicated to continue to produce successful medical school applicants.
For more information on the PSMP’s curriculum, overview, admissions and more, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/academics/pmsp/index.shtml or contact Dr. Amiel Jarstfer at
amiel.jarstfer@lmunet.edu or at 423-869-6364.
LMU-DCOM Facilities
Expansion
With the many programs within LMU’s
Division of Health Sciences, including
the DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine, the Caylor School of Nursing, and the many other undergraduate,
pre-professional, graduate and professional programs offered at LMU, it is
clear that these areas of study are a primary focus for the university. Building
on this emphasis, LMU is currently undertaking construction of a new Math &
Science building, expected to open in the
fall of 2012. This massive four-story building will be 120,000 square-feet and will
house numerous state-of-the-art lecture
halls, classrooms, laboratories and study
halls, and will feature some of the best
and latest technology available.
In addition to housing all the undergraduate and pre-professional math
and science academic programs, this
building will also serve as an expansion
to the LMU-DCOM facilities, with certain labs that will be reserved for use by
the DO students. The building will also
be home to the PMSP program and to the
future proposed LMU College of Veterinary and Comparative Medicine.
Lincoln Memorial University
Future Math & Sciences Building
LMU-DCOM E-Newsletter
Summer 2011 Issue
Summer 2011 Issue
www.LMUnet.edu/dcom/
Greetings from LMU-DCOM!
As the month of July is quickly winding down and we
are all gearing up for yet another academic year, Lincoln Memorial University—DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine is proud to look back on what has
been a very successful year marked by some important
milestones in the school’s history. As the new Admissions Recruiter for LMU-DCOM, it is my pleasure to
share with you the college’s exciting news and developments, and keep you updated on all the important
information pertinent to your Pre-Medical students.
I will be looking to schedule visits with you during the
fall or spring semesters, to speak with you further
about LMU-DCOM and hopefully present the information in person to your students.
LMU-DCOM Receives Full
Accreditation
Following a February visit from the
American Osteopathic Association—
Commission on Osteopathic College
Accreditation, LMU-DCOM is proud
to announce that it was granted its full
accreditation by AOA—COCA on
May 1, 2011. Additional information
on accreditation can be found at
www.aoacoca.org/ .
LMU-DCOM Dean Named
President-Elect of AOA
In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me
or any member of our Admissions Office with any
questions. We are here to assist you and your students
and facilitate their admission process. I look forward to
hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Juliette Egnatz
Admissions Recruiter
(423) 869-6478
juliette.egnatz@lmunet.edu
Ray E. Stowers, DO, FACOFP
Health Sciences Vice President
LMU-DCOM Dean
LMU-DCOM Graduates Its First Class
During its recent annual business
meeting in Chicago, the American
Osteopathic Association named LMUDCOM’s Dean, Ray E. Stowers, DO,
president-elect of the AOA. This prestigious appointment came only three
months after Dr. Stowers was awarded
the Paul Grayson Smith, Sr. Physician
of the Year Award by the Tennessee
Osteopathic Medical Association
(TOMA), during their annual conference in Gatlinburg in April.
May 14, 2011 was a historical day for LMU-DCOM as
its Inaugural Class of 2011 walked across the graduating stage before tossing their caps in celebration of
becoming the first set of LMU-DCOM osteopathic
physicians. The commencement address was delivered
by Dr. Karen Nichols, president of the American Osteopathic Association.
The Class of 2011 is now entering residencies in communities within 28 different states, as far as Hawaii
and as close as Knoxville, Tenn. Seventy-five percent
of the class will be entering a primary care residency in
the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN and emergency medicine. The other
25% will be entering a residency in areas of specialty
care, including surgery, urological surgery, psychiatry,
orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology, physical med &
rehabilitation, neuromusculoskeletal/OMT and pathology.
For more detailed information on the residency placement of our Class of 2011, please visit the following
links:
- Residency Placement by Location
- Residency Placement Analysis
- Map of Residency Placements
LMU-DCOM Welcomes Its Class of 2015
After a year-long, thorough selection process by the
DCOM admissions staff and the faculty advisors, we
are happy to be welcoming the Class of 2015, the newest addition to the DCOM family. The 162 spots of this
new class were filled from a pool of 3,000 applicants,
of which 405 were interviewed on campus.
The Class of 2015 is a diverse group of students, representing several different ethnic races, including American Indian or Native Alaskan, Asian, AfricanAmerican and Hispanic among others. Sixty percent of
the class comes from the Southern Appalachian region,
including 55 students from the state of Tennessee, 13
from Kentucky, 10 from Virginia, two from Georgia
and one from Arkansas. The other 40% will be joining
us from other states as far as Alaska and Hawaii.
On Tuesday, July 26, the new class will arrive on campus for a detailed orientation, which will last through
Thursday the 28th and end with a nice evening Barbeque with the college’s faculty and staff. Classes for the
new class will begin on Friday, July 29, and their
White Coat Ceremony will then follow, scheduled to
take place on Saturday, September 24, in LMU’s Tex
Turner Arena.
Dr. Ray E. Stowers, an AOA boardcertified family physician, has been
instrumental in the development of
future osteopathic physicians for many
years and has been a big advocate of
rural medicine particularly. Dr. Stowers will undoubtedly continue to have
a big impact on the growth of osteopathic medicine around the nation.
For more information about Dr. Ray
E. Stowers, click here.
About LMU-DCOM
The DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine is located on the campus of
Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tenn., a small town nestled in
the beautiful mountains of the Appalachian region, only a few miles from
the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The state-of-the-art college
was founded on August 1, 2007, and
opened its doors to its inaugural class
on August 3, 2007.
The region’s rural setting is key to
upholding LMU-DCOM’s mission of
producing outstanding and caring osteopathic physicians who will focus
on providing health care in underserved communities in Appalachia and
across the nation.
In addition to offering the Doctor of
Osteopathic Medicine (DO) program,
LMU-DCOM also offers a Physician
Assistant (PA) program, as well as a
DO-MBA program for students wishing to complement their education
with a business degree. A Postbaccalaureate Medical Sciences program is also offered for students who
need to strengthen their science
knowledge and grade point average
before applying to the DO program.
More information about LMU-DCOM
can be found at www.LMUnet.edu/
dcom/ .
PA Program News

Inaugural Class Graduation:
On Saturday, July 30, LMU-DCOM will graduate its first PA
class in the Sam and Sue Mars Performing Arts Center in the
Duke Hall of Citizenship. All 32 students from the PA Class
of 2011 have recently completed their clinical rotations in
various locations across the nation, and some even overseas.
They will be awarded a Master of Medical Science degree in
Physician Assistant Studies (MMS) and will be receiving notification of their scores from the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam over the next few weeks.

Class of 2012 White Coat Ceremony & Rotations:
On Saturday, June 18, LMU-DCOM held the White Coat Ceremony for the PA Class of 2012.
All 57 students received their symbolic physician’s garment in anticipation of their clinical
year. Students will be completing several rotations in many different locations including Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Florida, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Alaska. Just like some of the students from the PA
Class of 2011, a few of our 2012 PA students will also have the opportunity to complete rotations overseas in places like Australia and Uganda.
For more information on the PA program’s clinical year schedule, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/dcom/pa/academics.shtml .

Welcome to The Class of 2013:
As classes for the PA students began in May,
the new class of 2013 has been in full swing
for quite some time as they already near the
end of their first summer term. A total of 80
students make up this new PA class, ranking
the LMU-DCOM PA program within the top
5% in the nation in terms of class size.
Approximately 66% of the class comes to us
from the surrounding Appalachian region, with
the majority of those from Tennessee, Kentucky
and Virginia. The average GPA for the new class
is 3.4 and the average age is 26 years old.
LMU-DCOM PA Class of 2013
For more information about the PA Class of 2013, please click here.

Upcoming Accreditation Visit:
Following the DO program’s full accreditation in May 2011, LMU-DCOM’s PA program is
gearing up for their full-accreditation visit by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. (ARC—PA), which is scheduled to take place in midSeptember 2011. Results from the visit will be expected in the spring.
For more information on the LMU-DCOM PA program accreditation, please visit
www.arc-pa.org .
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Sciences Program

What Is the PMSP?
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Science Program is a 12-month certificate program of study
designed for college graduates who want to pursue a career in medicine and who need to receive additional academic training or wish to improve their academic credentials in order to
develop a successful application portfolio for admission into medical school.
The PMSP follows a rigorous curriculum of upper-level biology courses and medical gross
anatomy, which they take at LMU-DCOM with LMU-DCOM faculty and alongside LMUDCOM students.
One of the biggest advantages for students in the PMSP is that they will be guaranteed an interview at LMU-DCOM for admission into the DO program. In fact, 80% of this past year’s
PMSP students were accepted into the DO class of 2015, adding cultural diversity to the LMU
-DCOM student population. LMU’s PMSP faculty is dedicated to continue to produce successful medical school applicants.
For more information on the PSMP’s curriculum, overview, admissions and more, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/academics/pmsp/index.shtml or contact Dr. Amiel Jarstfer at
amiel.jarstfer@lmunet.edu or at 423-869-6364.
LMU-DCOM Facilities
Expansion
With the many programs within LMU’s
Division of Health Sciences, including
the DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine, the Caylor School of Nursing, and the many other undergraduate,
pre-professional, graduate and professional programs offered at LMU, it is
clear that these areas of study are a primary focus for the university. Building
on this emphasis, LMU is currently undertaking construction of a new Math &
Science building, expected to open in the
fall of 2012. This massive four-story building will be 120,000 square-feet and will
house numerous state-of-the-art lecture
halls, classrooms, laboratories and study
halls, and will feature some of the best
and latest technology available.
In addition to housing all the undergraduate and pre-professional math
and science academic programs, this
building will also serve as an expansion
to the LMU-DCOM facilities, with certain labs that will be reserved for use by
the DO students. The building will also
be home to the PMSP program and to the
future proposed LMU College of Veterinary and Comparative Medicine.
Lincoln Memorial University
Future Math & Sciences Building
LMU-DCOM E-Newsletter
Summer 2011 Issue
Summer 2011 Issue
www.LMUnet.edu/dcom/
Greetings from LMU-DCOM!
As the month of July is quickly winding down and we
are all gearing up for yet another academic year, Lincoln Memorial University—DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine is proud to look back on what has
been a very successful year marked by some important
milestones in the school’s history. As the new Admissions Recruiter for LMU-DCOM, it is my pleasure to
share with you the college’s exciting news and developments, and keep you updated on all the important
information pertinent to your Pre-Medical students.
I will be looking to schedule visits with you during the
fall or spring semesters, to speak with you further
about LMU-DCOM and hopefully present the information in person to your students.
LMU-DCOM Receives Full
Accreditation
Following a February visit from the
American Osteopathic Association—
Commission on Osteopathic College
Accreditation, LMU-DCOM is proud
to announce that it was granted its full
accreditation by AOA—COCA on
May 1, 2011. Additional information
on accreditation can be found at
www.aoacoca.org/ .
LMU-DCOM Dean Named
President-Elect of AOA
In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me
or any member of our Admissions Office with any
questions. We are here to assist you and your students
and facilitate their admission process. I look forward to
hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Juliette Egnatz
Admissions Recruiter
(423) 869-6478
juliette.egnatz@lmunet.edu
Ray E. Stowers, DO, FACOFP
Health Sciences Vice President
LMU-DCOM Dean
LMU-DCOM Graduates Its First Class
During its recent annual business
meeting in Chicago, the American
Osteopathic Association named LMUDCOM’s Dean, Ray E. Stowers, DO,
president-elect of the AOA. This prestigious appointment came only three
months after Dr. Stowers was awarded
the Paul Grayson Smith, Sr. Physician
of the Year Award by the Tennessee
Osteopathic Medical Association
(TOMA), during their annual conference in Gatlinburg in April.
May 14, 2011 was a historical day for LMU-DCOM as
its Inaugural Class of 2011 walked across the graduating stage before tossing their caps in celebration of
becoming the first set of LMU-DCOM osteopathic
physicians. The commencement address was delivered
by Dr. Karen Nichols, president of the American Osteopathic Association.
The Class of 2011 is now entering residencies in communities within 28 different states, as far as Hawaii
and as close as Knoxville, Tenn. Seventy-five percent
of the class will be entering a primary care residency in
the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN and emergency medicine. The other
25% will be entering a residency in areas of specialty
care, including surgery, urological surgery, psychiatry,
orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology, physical med &
rehabilitation, neuromusculoskeletal/OMT and pathology.
For more detailed information on the residency placement of our Class of 2011, please visit the following
links:
- Residency Placement by Location
- Residency Placement Analysis
- Map of Residency Placements
LMU-DCOM Welcomes Its Class of 2015
After a year-long, thorough selection process by the
DCOM admissions staff and the faculty advisors, we
are happy to be welcoming the Class of 2015, the newest addition to the DCOM family. The 162 spots of this
new class were filled from a pool of 3,000 applicants,
of which 405 were interviewed on campus.
The Class of 2015 is a diverse group of students, representing several different ethnic races, including American Indian or Native Alaskan, Asian, AfricanAmerican and Hispanic among others. Sixty percent of
the class comes from the Southern Appalachian region,
including 55 students from the state of Tennessee, 13
from Kentucky, 10 from Virginia, two from Georgia
and one from Arkansas. The other 40% will be joining
us from other states as far as Alaska and Hawaii.
On Tuesday, July 26, the new class will arrive on campus for a detailed orientation, which will last through
Thursday the 28th and end with a nice evening Barbeque with the college’s faculty and staff. Classes for the
new class will begin on Friday, July 29, and their
White Coat Ceremony will then follow, scheduled to
take place on Saturday, September 24, in LMU’s Tex
Turner Arena.
Dr. Ray E. Stowers, an AOA boardcertified family physician, has been
instrumental in the development of
future osteopathic physicians for many
years and has been a big advocate of
rural medicine particularly. Dr. Stowers will undoubtedly continue to have
a big impact on the growth of osteopathic medicine around the nation.
For more information about Dr. Ray
E. Stowers, click here.
About LMU-DCOM
The DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine is located on the campus of
Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tenn., a small town nestled in
the beautiful mountains of the Appalachian region, only a few miles from
the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The state-of-the-art college
was founded on August 1, 2007, and
opened its doors to its inaugural class
on August 3, 2007.
The region’s rural setting is key to
upholding LMU-DCOM’s mission of
producing outstanding and caring osteopathic physicians who will focus
on providing health care in underserved communities in Appalachia and
across the nation.
In addition to offering the Doctor of
Osteopathic Medicine (DO) program,
LMU-DCOM also offers a Physician
Assistant (PA) program, as well as a
DO-MBA program for students wishing to complement their education
with a business degree. A Postbaccalaureate Medical Sciences program is also offered for students who
need to strengthen their science
knowledge and grade point average
before applying to the DO program.
More information about LMU-DCOM
can be found at www.LMUnet.edu/
dcom/ .
PA Program News

Inaugural Class Graduation:
On Saturday, July 30, LMU-DCOM will graduate its first PA
class in the Sam and Sue Mars Performing Arts Center in the
Duke Hall of Citizenship. All 32 students from the PA Class
of 2011 have recently completed their clinical rotations in
various locations across the nation, and some even overseas.
They will be awarded a Master of Medical Science degree in
Physician Assistant Studies (MMS) and will be receiving notification of their scores from the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam over the next few weeks.

Class of 2012 White Coat Ceremony & Rotations:
On Saturday, June 18, LMU-DCOM held the White Coat Ceremony for the PA Class of 2012.
All 57 students received their symbolic physician’s garment in anticipation of their clinical
year. Students will be completing several rotations in many different locations including Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Florida, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Alaska. Just like some of the students from the PA
Class of 2011, a few of our 2012 PA students will also have the opportunity to complete rotations overseas in places like Australia and Uganda.
For more information on the PA program’s clinical year schedule, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/dcom/pa/academics.shtml .

Welcome to The Class of 2013:
As classes for the PA students began in May,
the new class of 2013 has been in full swing
for quite some time as they already near the
end of their first summer term. A total of 80
students make up this new PA class, ranking
the LMU-DCOM PA program within the top
5% in the nation in terms of class size.
Approximately 66% of the class comes to us
from the surrounding Appalachian region, with
the majority of those from Tennessee, Kentucky
and Virginia. The average GPA for the new class
is 3.4 and the average age is 26 years old.
LMU-DCOM PA Class of 2013
For more information about the PA Class of 2013, please click here.

Upcoming Accreditation Visit:
Following the DO program’s full accreditation in May 2011, LMU-DCOM’s PA program is
gearing up for their full-accreditation visit by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. (ARC—PA), which is scheduled to take place in midSeptember 2011. Results from the visit will be expected in the spring.
For more information on the LMU-DCOM PA program accreditation, please visit
www.arc-pa.org .
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Sciences Program

What Is the PMSP?
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Science Program is a 12-month certificate program of study
designed for college graduates who want to pursue a career in medicine and who need to receive additional academic training or wish to improve their academic credentials in order to
develop a successful application portfolio for admission into medical school.
The PMSP follows a rigorous curriculum of upper-level biology courses and medical gross
anatomy, which they take at LMU-DCOM with LMU-DCOM faculty and alongside LMUDCOM students.
One of the biggest advantages for students in the PMSP is that they will be guaranteed an interview at LMU-DCOM for admission into the DO program. In fact, 80% of this past year’s
PMSP students were accepted into the DO class of 2015, adding cultural diversity to the LMU
-DCOM student population. LMU’s PMSP faculty is dedicated to continue to produce successful medical school applicants.
For more information on the PSMP’s curriculum, overview, admissions and more, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/academics/pmsp/index.shtml or contact Dr. Amiel Jarstfer at
amiel.jarstfer@lmunet.edu or at 423-869-6364.
LMU-DCOM Facilities
Expansion
With the many programs within LMU’s
Division of Health Sciences, including
the DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine, the Caylor School of Nursing, and the many other undergraduate,
pre-professional, graduate and professional programs offered at LMU, it is
clear that these areas of study are a primary focus for the university. Building
on this emphasis, LMU is currently undertaking construction of a new Math &
Science building, expected to open in the
fall of 2012. This massive four-story building will be 120,000 square-feet and will
house numerous state-of-the-art lecture
halls, classrooms, laboratories and study
halls, and will feature some of the best
and latest technology available.
In addition to housing all the undergraduate and pre-professional math
and science academic programs, this
building will also serve as an expansion
to the LMU-DCOM facilities, with certain labs that will be reserved for use by
the DO students. The building will also
be home to the PMSP program and to the
future proposed LMU College of Veterinary and Comparative Medicine.
Lincoln Memorial University
Future Math & Sciences Building
LMU-DCOM E-Newsletter
Summer 2011 Issue
Summer 2011 Issue
www.LMUnet.edu/dcom/
Greetings from LMU-DCOM!
As the month of July is quickly winding down and we
are all gearing up for yet another academic year, Lincoln Memorial University—DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine is proud to look back on what has
been a very successful year marked by some important
milestones in the school’s history. As the new Admissions Recruiter for LMU-DCOM, it is my pleasure to
share with you the college’s exciting news and developments, and keep you updated on all the important
information pertinent to your Pre-Medical students.
I will be looking to schedule visits with you during the
fall or spring semesters, to speak with you further
about LMU-DCOM and hopefully present the information in person to your students.
LMU-DCOM Receives Full
Accreditation
Following a February visit from the
American Osteopathic Association—
Commission on Osteopathic College
Accreditation, LMU-DCOM is proud
to announce that it was granted its full
accreditation by AOA—COCA on
May 1, 2011. Additional information
on accreditation can be found at
www.aoacoca.org/ .
LMU-DCOM Dean Named
President-Elect of AOA
In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me
or any member of our Admissions Office with any
questions. We are here to assist you and your students
and facilitate their admission process. I look forward to
hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Juliette Egnatz
Admissions Recruiter
(423) 869-6478
juliette.egnatz@lmunet.edu
Ray E. Stowers, DO, FACOFP
Health Sciences Vice President
LMU-DCOM Dean
LMU-DCOM Graduates Its First Class
During its recent annual business
meeting in Chicago, the American
Osteopathic Association named LMUDCOM’s Dean, Ray E. Stowers, DO,
president-elect of the AOA. This prestigious appointment came only three
months after Dr. Stowers was awarded
the Paul Grayson Smith, Sr. Physician
of the Year Award by the Tennessee
Osteopathic Medical Association
(TOMA), during their annual conference in Gatlinburg in April.
May 14, 2011 was a historical day for LMU-DCOM as
its Inaugural Class of 2011 walked across the graduating stage before tossing their caps in celebration of
becoming the first set of LMU-DCOM osteopathic
physicians. The commencement address was delivered
by Dr. Karen Nichols, president of the American Osteopathic Association.
The Class of 2011 is now entering residencies in communities within 28 different states, as far as Hawaii
and as close as Knoxville, Tenn. Seventy-five percent
of the class will be entering a primary care residency in
the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN and emergency medicine. The other
25% will be entering a residency in areas of specialty
care, including surgery, urological surgery, psychiatry,
orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology, physical med &
rehabilitation, neuromusculoskeletal/OMT and pathology.
For more detailed information on the residency placement of our Class of 2011, please visit the following
links:
- Residency Placement by Location
- Residency Placement Analysis
- Map of Residency Placements
LMU-DCOM Welcomes Its Class of 2015
After a year-long, thorough selection process by the
DCOM admissions staff and the faculty advisors, we
are happy to be welcoming the Class of 2015, the newest addition to the DCOM family. The 162 spots of this
new class were filled from a pool of 3,000 applicants,
of which 405 were interviewed on campus.
The Class of 2015 is a diverse group of students, representing several different ethnic races, including American Indian or Native Alaskan, Asian, AfricanAmerican and Hispanic among others. Sixty percent of
the class comes from the Southern Appalachian region,
including 55 students from the state of Tennessee, 13
from Kentucky, 10 from Virginia, two from Georgia
and one from Arkansas. The other 40% will be joining
us from other states as far as Alaska and Hawaii.
On Tuesday, July 26, the new class will arrive on campus for a detailed orientation, which will last through
Thursday the 28th and end with a nice evening Barbeque with the college’s faculty and staff. Classes for the
new class will begin on Friday, July 29, and their
White Coat Ceremony will then follow, scheduled to
take place on Saturday, September 24, in LMU’s Tex
Turner Arena.
Dr. Ray E. Stowers, an AOA boardcertified family physician, has been
instrumental in the development of
future osteopathic physicians for many
years and has been a big advocate of
rural medicine particularly. Dr. Stowers will undoubtedly continue to have
a big impact on the growth of osteopathic medicine around the nation.
For more information about Dr. Ray
E. Stowers, click here.
About LMU-DCOM
The DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine is located on the campus of
Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tenn., a small town nestled in
the beautiful mountains of the Appalachian region, only a few miles from
the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The state-of-the-art college
was founded on August 1, 2007, and
opened its doors to its inaugural class
on August 3, 2007.
The region’s rural setting is key to
upholding LMU-DCOM’s mission of
producing outstanding and caring osteopathic physicians who will focus
on providing health care in underserved communities in Appalachia and
across the nation.
In addition to offering the Doctor of
Osteopathic Medicine (DO) program,
LMU-DCOM also offers a Physician
Assistant (PA) program, as well as a
DO-MBA program for students wishing to complement their education
with a business degree. A Postbaccalaureate Medical Sciences program is also offered for students who
need to strengthen their science
knowledge and grade point average
before applying to the DO program.
More information about LMU-DCOM
can be found at www.LMUnet.edu/
dcom/ .
PA Program News

Inaugural Class Graduation:
On Saturday, July 30, LMU-DCOM will graduate its first PA
class in the Sam and Sue Mars Performing Arts Center in the
Duke Hall of Citizenship. All 32 students from the PA Class
of 2011 have recently completed their clinical rotations in
various locations across the nation, and some even overseas.
They will be awarded a Master of Medical Science degree in
Physician Assistant Studies (MMS) and will be receiving notification of their scores from the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam over the next few weeks.

Class of 2012 White Coat Ceremony & Rotations:
On Saturday, June 18, LMU-DCOM held the White Coat Ceremony for the PA Class of 2012.
All 57 students received their symbolic physician’s garment in anticipation of their clinical
year. Students will be completing several rotations in many different locations including Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Florida, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Alaska. Just like some of the students from the PA
Class of 2011, a few of our 2012 PA students will also have the opportunity to complete rotations overseas in places like Australia and Uganda.
For more information on the PA program’s clinical year schedule, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/dcom/pa/academics.shtml .

Welcome to The Class of 2013:
As classes for the PA students began in May,
the new class of 2013 has been in full swing
for quite some time as they already near the
end of their first summer term. A total of 80
students make up this new PA class, ranking
the LMU-DCOM PA program within the top
5% in the nation in terms of class size.
Approximately 66% of the class comes to us
from the surrounding Appalachian region, with
the majority of those from Tennessee, Kentucky
and Virginia. The average GPA for the new class
is 3.4 and the average age is 26 years old.
LMU-DCOM PA Class of 2013
For more information about the PA Class of 2013, please click here.

Upcoming Accreditation Visit:
Following the DO program’s full accreditation in May 2011, LMU-DCOM’s PA program is
gearing up for their full-accreditation visit by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. (ARC—PA), which is scheduled to take place in midSeptember 2011. Results from the visit will be expected in the spring.
For more information on the LMU-DCOM PA program accreditation, please visit
www.arc-pa.org .
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Sciences Program

What Is the PMSP?
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Science Program is a 12-month certificate program of study
designed for college graduates who want to pursue a career in medicine and who need to receive additional academic training or wish to improve their academic credentials in order to
develop a successful application portfolio for admission into medical school.
The PMSP follows a rigorous curriculum of upper-level biology courses and medical gross
anatomy, which they take at LMU-DCOM with LMU-DCOM faculty and alongside LMUDCOM students.
One of the biggest advantages for students in the PMSP is that they will be guaranteed an interview at LMU-DCOM for admission into the DO program. In fact, 80% of this past year’s
PMSP students were accepted into the DO class of 2015, adding cultural diversity to the LMU
-DCOM student population. LMU’s PMSP faculty is dedicated to continue to produce successful medical school applicants.
For more information on the PSMP’s curriculum, overview, admissions and more, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/academics/pmsp/index.shtml or contact Dr. Amiel Jarstfer at
amiel.jarstfer@lmunet.edu or at 423-869-6364.
LMU-DCOM Facilities
Expansion
With the many programs within LMU’s
Division of Health Sciences, including
the DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine, the Caylor School of Nursing, and the many other undergraduate,
pre-professional, graduate and professional programs offered at LMU, it is
clear that these areas of study are a primary focus for the university. Building
on this emphasis, LMU is currently undertaking construction of a new Math &
Science building, expected to open in the
fall of 2012. This massive four-story building will be 120,000 square-feet and will
house numerous state-of-the-art lecture
halls, classrooms, laboratories and study
halls, and will feature some of the best
and latest technology available.
In addition to housing all the undergraduate and pre-professional math
and science academic programs, this
building will also serve as an expansion
to the LMU-DCOM facilities, with certain labs that will be reserved for use by
the DO students. The building will also
be home to the PMSP program and to the
future proposed LMU College of Veterinary and Comparative Medicine.
Lincoln Memorial University
Future Math & Sciences Building
LMU-DCOM E-Newsletter
Summer 2011 Issue
Summer 2011 Issue
www.LMUnet.edu/dcom/
Greetings from LMU-DCOM!
As the month of July is quickly winding down and we
are all gearing up for yet another academic year, Lincoln Memorial University—DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine is proud to look back on what has
been a very successful year marked by some important
milestones in the school’s history. As the new Admissions Recruiter for LMU-DCOM, it is my pleasure to
share with you the college’s exciting news and developments, and keep you updated on all the important
information pertinent to your Pre-Medical students.
I will be looking to schedule visits with you during the
fall or spring semesters, to speak with you further
about LMU-DCOM and hopefully present the information in person to your students.
LMU-DCOM Receives Full
Accreditation
Following a February visit from the
American Osteopathic Association—
Commission on Osteopathic College
Accreditation, LMU-DCOM is proud
to announce that it was granted its full
accreditation by AOA—COCA on
May 1, 2011. Additional information
on accreditation can be found at
www.aoacoca.org/ .
LMU-DCOM Dean Named
President-Elect of AOA
In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me
or any member of our Admissions Office with any
questions. We are here to assist you and your students
and facilitate their admission process. I look forward to
hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Juliette Egnatz
Admissions Recruiter
(423) 869-6478
juliette.egnatz@lmunet.edu
Ray E. Stowers, DO, FACOFP
Health Sciences Vice President
LMU-DCOM Dean
LMU-DCOM Graduates Its First Class
During its recent annual business
meeting in Chicago, the American
Osteopathic Association named LMUDCOM’s Dean, Ray E. Stowers, DO,
president-elect of the AOA. This prestigious appointment came only three
months after Dr. Stowers was awarded
the Paul Grayson Smith, Sr. Physician
of the Year Award by the Tennessee
Osteopathic Medical Association
(TOMA), during their annual conference in Gatlinburg in April.
May 14, 2011 was a historical day for LMU-DCOM as
its Inaugural Class of 2011 walked across the graduating stage before tossing their caps in celebration of
becoming the first set of LMU-DCOM osteopathic
physicians. The commencement address was delivered
by Dr. Karen Nichols, president of the American Osteopathic Association.
The Class of 2011 is now entering residencies in communities within 28 different states, as far as Hawaii
and as close as Knoxville, Tenn. Seventy-five percent
of the class will be entering a primary care residency in
the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN and emergency medicine. The other
25% will be entering a residency in areas of specialty
care, including surgery, urological surgery, psychiatry,
orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology, physical med &
rehabilitation, neuromusculoskeletal/OMT and pathology.
For more detailed information on the residency placement of our Class of 2011, please visit the following
links:
- Residency Placement by Location
- Residency Placement Analysis
- Map of Residency Placements
LMU-DCOM Welcomes Its Class of 2015
After a year-long, thorough selection process by the
DCOM admissions staff and the faculty advisors, we
are happy to be welcoming the Class of 2015, the newest addition to the DCOM family. The 162 spots of this
new class were filled from a pool of 3,000 applicants,
of which 405 were interviewed on campus.
The Class of 2015 is a diverse group of students, representing several different ethnic races, including American Indian or Native Alaskan, Asian, AfricanAmerican and Hispanic among others. Sixty percent of
the class comes from the Southern Appalachian region,
including 55 students from the state of Tennessee, 13
from Kentucky, 10 from Virginia, two from Georgia
and one from Arkansas. The other 40% will be joining
us from other states as far as Alaska and Hawaii.
On Tuesday, July 26, the new class will arrive on campus for a detailed orientation, which will last through
Thursday the 28th and end with a nice evening Barbeque with the college’s faculty and staff. Classes for the
new class will begin on Friday, July 29, and their
White Coat Ceremony will then follow, scheduled to
take place on Saturday, September 24, in LMU’s Tex
Turner Arena.
Dr. Ray E. Stowers, an AOA boardcertified family physician, has been
instrumental in the development of
future osteopathic physicians for many
years and has been a big advocate of
rural medicine particularly. Dr. Stowers will undoubtedly continue to have
a big impact on the growth of osteopathic medicine around the nation.
For more information about Dr. Ray
E. Stowers, click here.
About LMU-DCOM
The DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine is located on the campus of
Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tenn., a small town nestled in
the beautiful mountains of the Appalachian region, only a few miles from
the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The state-of-the-art college
was founded on August 1, 2007, and
opened its doors to its inaugural class
on August 3, 2007.
The region’s rural setting is key to
upholding LMU-DCOM’s mission of
producing outstanding and caring osteopathic physicians who will focus
on providing health care in underserved communities in Appalachia and
across the nation.
In addition to offering the Doctor of
Osteopathic Medicine (DO) program,
LMU-DCOM also offers a Physician
Assistant (PA) program, as well as a
DO-MBA program for students wishing to complement their education
with a business degree. A Postbaccalaureate Medical Sciences program is also offered for students who
need to strengthen their science
knowledge and grade point average
before applying to the DO program.
More information about LMU-DCOM
can be found at www.LMUnet.edu/
dcom/ .
PA Program News

Inaugural Class Graduation:
On Saturday, July 30, LMU-DCOM will graduate its first PA
class in the Sam and Sue Mars Performing Arts Center in the
Duke Hall of Citizenship. All 32 students from the PA Class
of 2011 have recently completed their clinical rotations in
various locations across the nation, and some even overseas.
They will be awarded a Master of Medical Science degree in
Physician Assistant Studies (MMS) and will be receiving notification of their scores from the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam over the next few weeks.

Class of 2012 White Coat Ceremony & Rotations:
On Saturday, June 18, LMU-DCOM held the White Coat Ceremony for the PA Class of 2012.
All 57 students received their symbolic physician’s garment in anticipation of their clinical
year. Students will be completing several rotations in many different locations including Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Florida, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Alaska. Just like some of the students from the PA
Class of 2011, a few of our 2012 PA students will also have the opportunity to complete rotations overseas in places like Australia and Uganda.
For more information on the PA program’s clinical year schedule, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/dcom/pa/academics.shtml .

Welcome to The Class of 2013:
As classes for the PA students began in May,
the new class of 2013 has been in full swing
for quite some time as they already near the
end of their first summer term. A total of 80
students make up this new PA class, ranking
the LMU-DCOM PA program within the top
5% in the nation in terms of class size.
Approximately 66% of the class comes to us
from the surrounding Appalachian region, with
the majority of those from Tennessee, Kentucky
and Virginia. The average GPA for the new class
is 3.4 and the average age is 26 years old.
LMU-DCOM PA Class of 2013
For more information about the PA Class of 2013, please click here.

Upcoming Accreditation Visit:
Following the DO program’s full accreditation in May 2011, LMU-DCOM’s PA program is
gearing up for their full-accreditation visit by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. (ARC—PA), which is scheduled to take place in midSeptember 2011. Results from the visit will be expected in the spring.
For more information on the LMU-DCOM PA program accreditation, please visit
www.arc-pa.org .
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Sciences Program

What Is the PMSP?
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Science Program is a 12-month certificate program of study
designed for college graduates who want to pursue a career in medicine and who need to receive additional academic training or wish to improve their academic credentials in order to
develop a successful application portfolio for admission into medical school.
The PMSP follows a rigorous curriculum of upper-level biology courses and medical gross
anatomy, which they take at LMU-DCOM with LMU-DCOM faculty and alongside LMUDCOM students.
One of the biggest advantages for students in the PMSP is that they will be guaranteed an interview at LMU-DCOM for admission into the DO program. In fact, 80% of this past year’s
PMSP students were accepted into the DO class of 2015, adding cultural diversity to the LMU
-DCOM student population. LMU’s PMSP faculty is dedicated to continue to produce successful medical school applicants.
For more information on the PSMP’s curriculum, overview, admissions and more, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/academics/pmsp/index.shtml or contact Dr. Amiel Jarstfer at
amiel.jarstfer@lmunet.edu or at 423-869-6364.
LMU-DCOM Facilities
Expansion
With the many programs within LMU’s
Division of Health Sciences, including
the DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine, the Caylor School of Nursing, and the many other undergraduate,
pre-professional, graduate and professional programs offered at LMU, it is
clear that these areas of study are a primary focus for the university. Building
on this emphasis, LMU is currently undertaking construction of a new Math &
Science building, expected to open in the
fall of 2012. This massive four-story building will be 120,000 square-feet and will
house numerous state-of-the-art lecture
halls, classrooms, laboratories and study
halls, and will feature some of the best
and latest technology available.
In addition to housing all the undergraduate and pre-professional math
and science academic programs, this
building will also serve as an expansion
to the LMU-DCOM facilities, with certain labs that will be reserved for use by
the DO students. The building will also
be home to the PMSP program and to the
future proposed LMU College of Veterinary and Comparative Medicine.
Lincoln Memorial University
Future Math & Sciences Building
LMU-DCOM E-Newsletter
Summer 2011 Issue
Summer 2011 Issue
www.LMUnet.edu/dcom/
Greetings from LMU-DCOM!
As the month of July is quickly winding down and we
are all gearing up for yet another academic year, Lincoln Memorial University—DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine is proud to look back on what has
been a very successful year marked by some important
milestones in the school’s history. As the new Admissions Recruiter for LMU-DCOM, it is my pleasure to
share with you the college’s exciting news and developments, and keep you updated on all the important
information pertinent to your Pre-Medical students.
I will be looking to schedule visits with you during the
fall or spring semesters, to speak with you further
about LMU-DCOM and hopefully present the information in person to your students.
LMU-DCOM Receives Full
Accreditation
Following a February visit from the
American Osteopathic Association—
Commission on Osteopathic College
Accreditation, LMU-DCOM is proud
to announce that it was granted its full
accreditation by AOA—COCA on
May 1, 2011. Additional information
on accreditation can be found at
www.aoacoca.org/ .
LMU-DCOM Dean Named
President-Elect of AOA
In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me
or any member of our Admissions Office with any
questions. We are here to assist you and your students
and facilitate their admission process. I look forward to
hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Juliette Egnatz
Admissions Recruiter
(423) 869-6478
juliette.egnatz@lmunet.edu
Ray E. Stowers, DO, FACOFP
Health Sciences Vice President
LMU-DCOM Dean
LMU-DCOM Graduates Its First Class
During its recent annual business
meeting in Chicago, the American
Osteopathic Association named LMUDCOM’s Dean, Ray E. Stowers, DO,
president-elect of the AOA. This prestigious appointment came only three
months after Dr. Stowers was awarded
the Paul Grayson Smith, Sr. Physician
of the Year Award by the Tennessee
Osteopathic Medical Association
(TOMA), during their annual conference in Gatlinburg in April.
May 14, 2011 was a historical day for LMU-DCOM as
its Inaugural Class of 2011 walked across the graduating stage before tossing their caps in celebration of
becoming the first set of LMU-DCOM osteopathic
physicians. The commencement address was delivered
by Dr. Karen Nichols, president of the American Osteopathic Association.
The Class of 2011 is now entering residencies in communities within 28 different states, as far as Hawaii
and as close as Knoxville, Tenn. Seventy-five percent
of the class will be entering a primary care residency in
the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN and emergency medicine. The other
25% will be entering a residency in areas of specialty
care, including surgery, urological surgery, psychiatry,
orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology, physical med &
rehabilitation, neuromusculoskeletal/OMT and pathology.
For more detailed information on the residency placement of our Class of 2011, please visit the following
links:
- Residency Placement by Location
- Residency Placement Analysis
- Map of Residency Placements
LMU-DCOM Welcomes Its Class of 2015
After a year-long, thorough selection process by the
DCOM admissions staff and the faculty advisors, we
are happy to be welcoming the Class of 2015, the newest addition to the DCOM family. The 162 spots of this
new class were filled from a pool of 3,000 applicants,
of which 405 were interviewed on campus.
The Class of 2015 is a diverse group of students, representing several different ethnic races, including American Indian or Native Alaskan, Asian, AfricanAmerican and Hispanic among others. Sixty percent of
the class comes from the Southern Appalachian region,
including 55 students from the state of Tennessee, 13
from Kentucky, 10 from Virginia, two from Georgia
and one from Arkansas. The other 40% will be joining
us from other states as far as Alaska and Hawaii.
On Tuesday, July 26, the new class will arrive on campus for a detailed orientation, which will last through
Thursday the 28th and end with a nice evening Barbeque with the college’s faculty and staff. Classes for the
new class will begin on Friday, July 29, and their
White Coat Ceremony will then follow, scheduled to
take place on Saturday, September 24, in LMU’s Tex
Turner Arena.
Dr. Ray E. Stowers, an AOA boardcertified family physician, has been
instrumental in the development of
future osteopathic physicians for many
years and has been a big advocate of
rural medicine particularly. Dr. Stowers will undoubtedly continue to have
a big impact on the growth of osteopathic medicine around the nation.
For more information about Dr. Ray
E. Stowers, click here.
About LMU-DCOM
The DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine is located on the campus of
Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tenn., a small town nestled in
the beautiful mountains of the Appalachian region, only a few miles from
the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The state-of-the-art college
was founded on August 1, 2007, and
opened its doors to its inaugural class
on August 3, 2007.
The region’s rural setting is key to
upholding LMU-DCOM’s mission of
producing outstanding and caring osteopathic physicians who will focus
on providing health care in underserved communities in Appalachia and
across the nation.
In addition to offering the Doctor of
Osteopathic Medicine (DO) program,
LMU-DCOM also offers a Physician
Assistant (PA) program, as well as a
DO-MBA program for students wishing to complement their education
with a business degree. A Postbaccalaureate Medical Sciences program is also offered for students who
need to strengthen their science
knowledge and grade point average
before applying to the DO program.
More information about LMU-DCOM
can be found at www.LMUnet.edu/
dcom/ .
PA Program News

Inaugural Class Graduation:
On Saturday, July 30, LMU-DCOM will graduate its first PA
class in the Sam and Sue Mars Performing Arts Center in the
Duke Hall of Citizenship. All 32 students from the PA Class
of 2011 have recently completed their clinical rotations in
various locations across the nation, and some even overseas.
They will be awarded a Master of Medical Science degree in
Physician Assistant Studies (MMS) and will be receiving notification of their scores from the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam over the next few weeks.

Class of 2012 White Coat Ceremony & Rotations:
On Saturday, June 18, LMU-DCOM held the White Coat Ceremony for the PA Class of 2012.
All 57 students received their symbolic physician’s garment in anticipation of their clinical
year. Students will be completing several rotations in many different locations including Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Florida, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Alaska. Just like some of the students from the PA
Class of 2011, a few of our 2012 PA students will also have the opportunity to complete rotations overseas in places like Australia and Uganda.
For more information on the PA program’s clinical year schedule, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/dcom/pa/academics.shtml .

Welcome to The Class of 2013:
As classes for the PA students began in May,
the new class of 2013 has been in full swing
for quite some time as they already near the
end of their first summer term. A total of 80
students make up this new PA class, ranking
the LMU-DCOM PA program within the top
5% in the nation in terms of class size.
Approximately 66% of the class comes to us
from the surrounding Appalachian region, with
the majority of those from Tennessee, Kentucky
and Virginia. The average GPA for the new class
is 3.4 and the average age is 26 years old.
LMU-DCOM PA Class of 2013
For more information about the PA Class of 2013, please click here.

Upcoming Accreditation Visit:
Following the DO program’s full accreditation in May 2011, LMU-DCOM’s PA program is
gearing up for their full-accreditation visit by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. (ARC—PA), which is scheduled to take place in midSeptember 2011. Results from the visit will be expected in the spring.
For more information on the LMU-DCOM PA program accreditation, please visit
www.arc-pa.org .
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Sciences Program

What Is the PMSP?
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Science Program is a 12-month certificate program of study
designed for college graduates who want to pursue a career in medicine and who need to receive additional academic training or wish to improve their academic credentials in order to
develop a successful application portfolio for admission into medical school.
The PMSP follows a rigorous curriculum of upper-level biology courses and medical gross
anatomy, which they take at LMU-DCOM with LMU-DCOM faculty and alongside LMUDCOM students.
One of the biggest advantages for students in the PMSP is that they will be guaranteed an interview at LMU-DCOM for admission into the DO program. In fact, 80% of this past year’s
PMSP students were accepted into the DO class of 2015, adding cultural diversity to the LMU
-DCOM student population. LMU’s PMSP faculty is dedicated to continue to produce successful medical school applicants.
For more information on the PSMP’s curriculum, overview, admissions and more, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/academics/pmsp/index.shtml or contact Dr. Amiel Jarstfer at
amiel.jarstfer@lmunet.edu or at 423-869-6364.
LMU-DCOM Facilities
Expansion
With the many programs within LMU’s
Division of Health Sciences, including
the DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine, the Caylor School of Nursing, and the many other undergraduate,
pre-professional, graduate and professional programs offered at LMU, it is
clear that these areas of study are a primary focus for the university. Building
on this emphasis, LMU is currently undertaking construction of a new Math &
Science building, expected to open in the
fall of 2012. This massive four-story building will be 120,000 square-feet and will
house numerous state-of-the-art lecture
halls, classrooms, laboratories and study
halls, and will feature some of the best
and latest technology available.
In addition to housing all the undergraduate and pre-professional math
and science academic programs, this
building will also serve as an expansion
to the LMU-DCOM facilities, with certain labs that will be reserved for use by
the DO students. The building will also
be home to the PMSP program and to the
future proposed LMU College of Veterinary and Comparative Medicine.
Lincoln Memorial University
Future Math & Sciences Building
LMU-DCOM E-Newsletter
Summer 2011 Issue
Summer 2011 Issue
www.LMUnet.edu/dcom/
Greetings from LMU-DCOM!
As the month of July is quickly winding down and we
are all gearing up for yet another academic year, Lincoln Memorial University—DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine is proud to look back on what has
been a very successful year marked by some important
milestones in the school’s history. As the new Admissions Recruiter for LMU-DCOM, it is my pleasure to
share with you the college’s exciting news and developments, and keep you updated on all the important
information pertinent to your Pre-Medical students.
I will be looking to schedule visits with you during the
fall or spring semesters, to speak with you further
about LMU-DCOM and hopefully present the information in person to your students.
LMU-DCOM Receives Full
Accreditation
Following a February visit from the
American Osteopathic Association—
Commission on Osteopathic College
Accreditation, LMU-DCOM is proud
to announce that it was granted its full
accreditation by AOA—COCA on
May 1, 2011. Additional information
on accreditation can be found at
www.aoacoca.org/ .
LMU-DCOM Dean Named
President-Elect of AOA
In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me
or any member of our Admissions Office with any
questions. We are here to assist you and your students
and facilitate their admission process. I look forward to
hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Juliette Egnatz
Admissions Recruiter
(423) 869-6478
juliette.egnatz@lmunet.edu
Ray E. Stowers, DO, FACOFP
Health Sciences Vice President
LMU-DCOM Dean
LMU-DCOM Graduates Its First Class
During its recent annual business
meeting in Chicago, the American
Osteopathic Association named LMUDCOM’s Dean, Ray E. Stowers, DO,
president-elect of the AOA. This prestigious appointment came only three
months after Dr. Stowers was awarded
the Paul Grayson Smith, Sr. Physician
of the Year Award by the Tennessee
Osteopathic Medical Association
(TOMA), during their annual conference in Gatlinburg in April.
May 14, 2011 was a historical day for LMU-DCOM as
its Inaugural Class of 2011 walked across the graduating stage before tossing their caps in celebration of
becoming the first set of LMU-DCOM osteopathic
physicians. The commencement address was delivered
by Dr. Karen Nichols, president of the American Osteopathic Association.
The Class of 2011 is now entering residencies in communities within 28 different states, as far as Hawaii
and as close as Knoxville, Tenn. Seventy-five percent
of the class will be entering a primary care residency in
the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN and emergency medicine. The other
25% will be entering a residency in areas of specialty
care, including surgery, urological surgery, psychiatry,
orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology, physical med &
rehabilitation, neuromusculoskeletal/OMT and pathology.
For more detailed information on the residency placement of our Class of 2011, please visit the following
links:
- Residency Placement by Location
- Residency Placement Analysis
- Map of Residency Placements
LMU-DCOM Welcomes Its Class of 2015
After a year-long, thorough selection process by the
DCOM admissions staff and the faculty advisors, we
are happy to be welcoming the Class of 2015, the newest addition to the DCOM family. The 162 spots of this
new class were filled from a pool of 3,000 applicants,
of which 405 were interviewed on campus.
The Class of 2015 is a diverse group of students, representing several different ethnic races, including American Indian or Native Alaskan, Asian, AfricanAmerican and Hispanic among others. Sixty percent of
the class comes from the Southern Appalachian region,
including 55 students from the state of Tennessee, 13
from Kentucky, 10 from Virginia, two from Georgia
and one from Arkansas. The other 40% will be joining
us from other states as far as Alaska and Hawaii.
On Tuesday, July 26, the new class will arrive on campus for a detailed orientation, which will last through
Thursday the 28th and end with a nice evening Barbeque with the college’s faculty and staff. Classes for the
new class will begin on Friday, July 29, and their
White Coat Ceremony will then follow, scheduled to
take place on Saturday, September 24, in LMU’s Tex
Turner Arena.
Dr. Ray E. Stowers, an AOA boardcertified family physician, has been
instrumental in the development of
future osteopathic physicians for many
years and has been a big advocate of
rural medicine particularly. Dr. Stowers will undoubtedly continue to have
a big impact on the growth of osteopathic medicine around the nation.
For more information about Dr. Ray
E. Stowers, click here.
About LMU-DCOM
The DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine is located on the campus of
Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tenn., a small town nestled in
the beautiful mountains of the Appalachian region, only a few miles from
the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The state-of-the-art college
was founded on August 1, 2007, and
opened its doors to its inaugural class
on August 3, 2007.
The region’s rural setting is key to
upholding LMU-DCOM’s mission of
producing outstanding and caring osteopathic physicians who will focus
on providing health care in underserved communities in Appalachia and
across the nation.
In addition to offering the Doctor of
Osteopathic Medicine (DO) program,
LMU-DCOM also offers a Physician
Assistant (PA) program, as well as a
DO-MBA program for students wishing to complement their education
with a business degree. A Postbaccalaureate Medical Sciences program is also offered for students who
need to strengthen their science
knowledge and grade point average
before applying to the DO program.
More information about LMU-DCOM
can be found at www.LMUnet.edu/
dcom/ .
PA Program News

Inaugural Class Graduation:
On Saturday, July 30, LMU-DCOM will graduate its first PA
class in the Sam and Sue Mars Performing Arts Center in the
Duke Hall of Citizenship. All 32 students from the PA Class
of 2011 have recently completed their clinical rotations in
various locations across the nation, and some even overseas.
They will be awarded a Master of Medical Science degree in
Physician Assistant Studies (MMS) and will be receiving notification of their scores from the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam over the next few weeks.

Class of 2012 White Coat Ceremony & Rotations:
On Saturday, June 18, LMU-DCOM held the White Coat Ceremony for the PA Class of 2012.
All 57 students received their symbolic physician’s garment in anticipation of their clinical
year. Students will be completing several rotations in many different locations including Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Florida, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Alaska. Just like some of the students from the PA
Class of 2011, a few of our 2012 PA students will also have the opportunity to complete rotations overseas in places like Australia and Uganda.
For more information on the PA program’s clinical year schedule, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/dcom/pa/academics.shtml .

Welcome to The Class of 2013:
As classes for the PA students began in May,
the new class of 2013 has been in full swing
for quite some time as they already near the
end of their first summer term. A total of 80
students make up this new PA class, ranking
the LMU-DCOM PA program within the top
5% in the nation in terms of class size.
Approximately 66% of the class comes to us
from the surrounding Appalachian region, with
the majority of those from Tennessee, Kentucky
and Virginia. The average GPA for the new class
is 3.4 and the average age is 26 years old.
LMU-DCOM PA Class of 2013
For more information about the PA Class of 2013, please click here.

Upcoming Accreditation Visit:
Following the DO program’s full accreditation in May 2011, LMU-DCOM’s PA program is
gearing up for their full-accreditation visit by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. (ARC—PA), which is scheduled to take place in midSeptember 2011. Results from the visit will be expected in the spring.
For more information on the LMU-DCOM PA program accreditation, please visit
www.arc-pa.org .
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Sciences Program

What Is the PMSP?
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Science Program is a 12-month certificate program of study
designed for college graduates who want to pursue a career in medicine and who need to receive additional academic training or wish to improve their academic credentials in order to
develop a successful application portfolio for admission into medical school.
The PMSP follows a rigorous curriculum of upper-level biology courses and medical gross
anatomy, which they take at LMU-DCOM with LMU-DCOM faculty and alongside LMUDCOM students.
One of the biggest advantages for students in the PMSP is that they will be guaranteed an interview at LMU-DCOM for admission into the DO program. In fact, 80% of this past year’s
PMSP students were accepted into the DO class of 2015, adding cultural diversity to the LMU
-DCOM student population. LMU’s PMSP faculty is dedicated to continue to produce successful medical school applicants.
For more information on the PSMP’s curriculum, overview, admissions and more, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/academics/pmsp/index.shtml or contact Dr. Amiel Jarstfer at
amiel.jarstfer@lmunet.edu or at 423-869-6364.
LMU-DCOM Facilities
Expansion
With the many programs within LMU’s
Division of Health Sciences, including
the DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine, the Caylor School of Nursing, and the many other undergraduate,
pre-professional, graduate and professional programs offered at LMU, it is
clear that these areas of study are a primary focus for the university. Building
on this emphasis, LMU is currently undertaking construction of a new Math &
Science building, expected to open in the
fall of 2012. This massive four-story building will be 120,000 square-feet and will
house numerous state-of-the-art lecture
halls, classrooms, laboratories and study
halls, and will feature some of the best
and latest technology available.
In addition to housing all the undergraduate and pre-professional math
and science academic programs, this
building will also serve as an expansion
to the LMU-DCOM facilities, with certain labs that will be reserved for use by
the DO students. The building will also
be home to the PMSP program and to the
future proposed LMU College of Veterinary and Comparative Medicine.
Lincoln Memorial University
Future Math & Sciences Building
LMU-DCOM E-Newsletter
Summer 2011 Issue
Summer 2011 Issue
www.LMUnet.edu/dcom/
Greetings from LMU-DCOM!
As the month of July is quickly winding down and we
are all gearing up for yet another academic year, Lincoln Memorial University—DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine is proud to look back on what has
been a very successful year marked by some important
milestones in the school’s history. As the new Admissions Recruiter for LMU-DCOM, it is my pleasure to
share with you the college’s exciting news and developments, and keep you updated on all the important
information pertinent to your Pre-Medical students.
I will be looking to schedule visits with you during the
fall or spring semesters, to speak with you further
about LMU-DCOM and hopefully present the information in person to your students.
LMU-DCOM Receives Full
Accreditation
Following a February visit from the
American Osteopathic Association—
Commission on Osteopathic College
Accreditation, LMU-DCOM is proud
to announce that it was granted its full
accreditation by AOA—COCA on
May 1, 2011. Additional information
on accreditation can be found at
www.aoacoca.org/ .
LMU-DCOM Dean Named
President-Elect of AOA
In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me
or any member of our Admissions Office with any
questions. We are here to assist you and your students
and facilitate their admission process. I look forward to
hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Juliette Egnatz
Admissions Recruiter
(423) 869-6478
juliette.egnatz@lmunet.edu
Ray E. Stowers, DO, FACOFP
Health Sciences Vice President
LMU-DCOM Dean
LMU-DCOM Graduates Its First Class
During its recent annual business
meeting in Chicago, the American
Osteopathic Association named LMUDCOM’s Dean, Ray E. Stowers, DO,
president-elect of the AOA. This prestigious appointment came only three
months after Dr. Stowers was awarded
the Paul Grayson Smith, Sr. Physician
of the Year Award by the Tennessee
Osteopathic Medical Association
(TOMA), during their annual conference in Gatlinburg in April.
May 14, 2011 was a historical day for LMU-DCOM as
its Inaugural Class of 2011 walked across the graduating stage before tossing their caps in celebration of
becoming the first set of LMU-DCOM osteopathic
physicians. The commencement address was delivered
by Dr. Karen Nichols, president of the American Osteopathic Association.
The Class of 2011 is now entering residencies in communities within 28 different states, as far as Hawaii
and as close as Knoxville, Tenn. Seventy-five percent
of the class will be entering a primary care residency in
the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN and emergency medicine. The other
25% will be entering a residency in areas of specialty
care, including surgery, urological surgery, psychiatry,
orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology, physical med &
rehabilitation, neuromusculoskeletal/OMT and pathology.
For more detailed information on the residency placement of our Class of 2011, please visit the following
links:
- Residency Placement by Location
- Residency Placement Analysis
- Map of Residency Placements
LMU-DCOM Welcomes Its Class of 2015
After a year-long, thorough selection process by the
DCOM admissions staff and the faculty advisors, we
are happy to be welcoming the Class of 2015, the newest addition to the DCOM family. The 162 spots of this
new class were filled from a pool of 3,000 applicants,
of which 405 were interviewed on campus.
The Class of 2015 is a diverse group of students, representing several different ethnic races, including American Indian or Native Alaskan, Asian, AfricanAmerican and Hispanic among others. Sixty percent of
the class comes from the Southern Appalachian region,
including 55 students from the state of Tennessee, 13
from Kentucky, 10 from Virginia, two from Georgia
and one from Arkansas. The other 40% will be joining
us from other states as far as Alaska and Hawaii.
On Tuesday, July 26, the new class will arrive on campus for a detailed orientation, which will last through
Thursday the 28th and end with a nice evening Barbeque with the college’s faculty and staff. Classes for the
new class will begin on Friday, July 29, and their
White Coat Ceremony will then follow, scheduled to
take place on Saturday, September 24, in LMU’s Tex
Turner Arena.
Dr. Ray E. Stowers, an AOA boardcertified family physician, has been
instrumental in the development of
future osteopathic physicians for many
years and has been a big advocate of
rural medicine particularly. Dr. Stowers will undoubtedly continue to have
a big impact on the growth of osteopathic medicine around the nation.
For more information about Dr. Ray
E. Stowers, click here.
About LMU-DCOM
The DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine is located on the campus of
Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tenn., a small town nestled in
the beautiful mountains of the Appalachian region, only a few miles from
the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The state-of-the-art college
was founded on August 1, 2007, and
opened its doors to its inaugural class
on August 3, 2007.
The region’s rural setting is key to
upholding LMU-DCOM’s mission of
producing outstanding and caring osteopathic physicians who will focus
on providing health care in underserved communities in Appalachia and
across the nation.
In addition to offering the Doctor of
Osteopathic Medicine (DO) program,
LMU-DCOM also offers a Physician
Assistant (PA) program, as well as a
DO-MBA program for students wishing to complement their education
with a business degree. A Postbaccalaureate Medical Sciences program is also offered for students who
need to strengthen their science
knowledge and grade point average
before applying to the DO program.
More information about LMU-DCOM
can be found at www.LMUnet.edu/
dcom/ .
PA Program News

Inaugural Class Graduation:
On Saturday, July 30, LMU-DCOM will graduate its first PA
class in the Sam and Sue Mars Performing Arts Center in the
Duke Hall of Citizenship. All 32 students from the PA Class
of 2011 have recently completed their clinical rotations in
various locations across the nation, and some even overseas.
They will be awarded a Master of Medical Science degree in
Physician Assistant Studies (MMS) and will be receiving notification of their scores from the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam over the next few weeks.

Class of 2012 White Coat Ceremony & Rotations:
On Saturday, June 18, LMU-DCOM held the White Coat Ceremony for the PA Class of 2012.
All 57 students received their symbolic physician’s garment in anticipation of their clinical
year. Students will be completing several rotations in many different locations including Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Florida, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Alaska. Just like some of the students from the PA
Class of 2011, a few of our 2012 PA students will also have the opportunity to complete rotations overseas in places like Australia and Uganda.
For more information on the PA program’s clinical year schedule, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/dcom/pa/academics.shtml .

Welcome to The Class of 2013:
As classes for the PA students began in May,
the new class of 2013 has been in full swing
for quite some time as they already near the
end of their first summer term. A total of 80
students make up this new PA class, ranking
the LMU-DCOM PA program within the top
5% in the nation in terms of class size.
Approximately 66% of the class comes to us
from the surrounding Appalachian region, with
the majority of those from Tennessee, Kentucky
and Virginia. The average GPA for the new class
is 3.4 and the average age is 26 years old.
LMU-DCOM PA Class of 2013
For more information about the PA Class of 2013, please click here.

Upcoming Accreditation Visit:
Following the DO program’s full accreditation in May 2011, LMU-DCOM’s PA program is
gearing up for their full-accreditation visit by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. (ARC—PA), which is scheduled to take place in midSeptember 2011. Results from the visit will be expected in the spring.
For more information on the LMU-DCOM PA program accreditation, please visit
www.arc-pa.org .
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Sciences Program

What Is the PMSP?
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Science Program is a 12-month certificate program of study
designed for college graduates who want to pursue a career in medicine and who need to receive additional academic training or wish to improve their academic credentials in order to
develop a successful application portfolio for admission into medical school.
The PMSP follows a rigorous curriculum of upper-level biology courses and medical gross
anatomy, which they take at LMU-DCOM with LMU-DCOM faculty and alongside LMUDCOM students.
One of the biggest advantages for students in the PMSP is that they will be guaranteed an interview at LMU-DCOM for admission into the DO program. In fact, 80% of this past year’s
PMSP students were accepted into the DO class of 2015, adding cultural diversity to the LMU
-DCOM student population. LMU’s PMSP faculty is dedicated to continue to produce successful medical school applicants.
For more information on the PSMP’s curriculum, overview, admissions and more, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/academics/pmsp/index.shtml or contact Dr. Amiel Jarstfer at
amiel.jarstfer@lmunet.edu or at 423-869-6364.
LMU-DCOM Facilities
Expansion
With the many programs within LMU’s
Division of Health Sciences, including
the DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine, the Caylor School of Nursing, and the many other undergraduate,
pre-professional, graduate and professional programs offered at LMU, it is
clear that these areas of study are a primary focus for the university. Building
on this emphasis, LMU is currently undertaking construction of a new Math &
Science building, expected to open in the
fall of 2012. This massive four-story building will be 120,000 square-feet and will
house numerous state-of-the-art lecture
halls, classrooms, laboratories and study
halls, and will feature some of the best
and latest technology available.
In addition to housing all the undergraduate and pre-professional math
and science academic programs, this
building will also serve as an expansion
to the LMU-DCOM facilities, with certain labs that will be reserved for use by
the DO students. The building will also
be home to the PMSP program and to the
future proposed LMU College of Veterinary and Comparative Medicine.
Lincoln Memorial University
Future Math & Sciences Building
LMU-DCOM E-Newsletter
Summer 2011 Issue
Summer 2011 Issue
www.LMUnet.edu/dcom/
Greetings from LMU-DCOM!
As the month of July is quickly winding down and we
are all gearing up for yet another academic year, Lincoln Memorial University—DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine is proud to look back on what has
been a very successful year marked by some important
milestones in the school’s history. As the new Admissions Recruiter for LMU-DCOM, it is my pleasure to
share with you the college’s exciting news and developments, and keep you updated on all the important
information pertinent to your Pre-Medical students.
I will be looking to schedule visits with you during the
fall or spring semesters, to speak with you further
about LMU-DCOM and hopefully present the information in person to your students.
LMU-DCOM Receives Full
Accreditation
Following a February visit from the
American Osteopathic Association—
Commission on Osteopathic College
Accreditation, LMU-DCOM is proud
to announce that it was granted its full
accreditation by AOA—COCA on
May 1, 2011. Additional information
on accreditation can be found at
www.aoacoca.org/ .
LMU-DCOM Dean Named
President-Elect of AOA
In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me
or any member of our Admissions Office with any
questions. We are here to assist you and your students
and facilitate their admission process. I look forward to
hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Juliette Egnatz
Admissions Recruiter
(423) 869-6478
juliette.egnatz@lmunet.edu
Ray E. Stowers, DO, FACOFP
Health Sciences Vice President
LMU-DCOM Dean
LMU-DCOM Graduates Its First Class
During its recent annual business
meeting in Chicago, the American
Osteopathic Association named LMUDCOM’s Dean, Ray E. Stowers, DO,
president-elect of the AOA. This prestigious appointment came only three
months after Dr. Stowers was awarded
the Paul Grayson Smith, Sr. Physician
of the Year Award by the Tennessee
Osteopathic Medical Association
(TOMA), during their annual conference in Gatlinburg in April.
May 14, 2011 was a historical day for LMU-DCOM as
its Inaugural Class of 2011 walked across the graduating stage before tossing their caps in celebration of
becoming the first set of LMU-DCOM osteopathic
physicians. The commencement address was delivered
by Dr. Karen Nichols, president of the American Osteopathic Association.
The Class of 2011 is now entering residencies in communities within 28 different states, as far as Hawaii
and as close as Knoxville, Tenn. Seventy-five percent
of the class will be entering a primary care residency in
the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN and emergency medicine. The other
25% will be entering a residency in areas of specialty
care, including surgery, urological surgery, psychiatry,
orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology, physical med &
rehabilitation, neuromusculoskeletal/OMT and pathology.
For more detailed information on the residency placement of our Class of 2011, please visit the following
links:
- Residency Placement by Location
- Residency Placement Analysis
- Map of Residency Placements
LMU-DCOM Welcomes Its Class of 2015
After a year-long, thorough selection process by the
DCOM admissions staff and the faculty advisors, we
are happy to be welcoming the Class of 2015, the newest addition to the DCOM family. The 162 spots of this
new class were filled from a pool of 3,000 applicants,
of which 405 were interviewed on campus.
The Class of 2015 is a diverse group of students, representing several different ethnic races, including American Indian or Native Alaskan, Asian, AfricanAmerican and Hispanic among others. Sixty percent of
the class comes from the Southern Appalachian region,
including 55 students from the state of Tennessee, 13
from Kentucky, 10 from Virginia, two from Georgia
and one from Arkansas. The other 40% will be joining
us from other states as far as Alaska and Hawaii.
On Tuesday, July 26, the new class will arrive on campus for a detailed orientation, which will last through
Thursday the 28th and end with a nice evening Barbeque with the college’s faculty and staff. Classes for the
new class will begin on Friday, July 29, and their
White Coat Ceremony will then follow, scheduled to
take place on Saturday, September 24, in LMU’s Tex
Turner Arena.
Dr. Ray E. Stowers, an AOA boardcertified family physician, has been
instrumental in the development of
future osteopathic physicians for many
years and has been a big advocate of
rural medicine particularly. Dr. Stowers will undoubtedly continue to have
a big impact on the growth of osteopathic medicine around the nation.
For more information about Dr. Ray
E. Stowers, click here.
About LMU-DCOM
The DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine is located on the campus of
Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tenn., a small town nestled in
the beautiful mountains of the Appalachian region, only a few miles from
the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The state-of-the-art college
was founded on August 1, 2007, and
opened its doors to its inaugural class
on August 3, 2007.
The region’s rural setting is key to
upholding LMU-DCOM’s mission of
producing outstanding and caring osteopathic physicians who will focus
on providing health care in underserved communities in Appalachia and
across the nation.
In addition to offering the Doctor of
Osteopathic Medicine (DO) program,
LMU-DCOM also offers a Physician
Assistant (PA) program, as well as a
DO-MBA program for students wishing to complement their education
with a business degree. A Postbaccalaureate Medical Sciences program is also offered for students who
need to strengthen their science
knowledge and grade point average
before applying to the DO program.
More information about LMU-DCOM
can be found at www.LMUnet.edu/
dcom/ .
PA Program News

Inaugural Class Graduation:
On Saturday, July 30, LMU-DCOM will graduate its first PA
class in the Sam and Sue Mars Performing Arts Center in the
Duke Hall of Citizenship. All 32 students from the PA Class
of 2011 have recently completed their clinical rotations in
various locations across the nation, and some even overseas.
They will be awarded a Master of Medical Science degree in
Physician Assistant Studies (MMS) and will be receiving notification of their scores from the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam over the next few weeks.

Class of 2012 White Coat Ceremony & Rotations:
On Saturday, June 18, LMU-DCOM held the White Coat Ceremony for the PA Class of 2012.
All 57 students received their symbolic physician’s garment in anticipation of their clinical
year. Students will be completing several rotations in many different locations including Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Florida, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Alaska. Just like some of the students from the PA
Class of 2011, a few of our 2012 PA students will also have the opportunity to complete rotations overseas in places like Australia and Uganda.
For more information on the PA program’s clinical year schedule, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/dcom/pa/academics.shtml .

Welcome to The Class of 2013:
As classes for the PA students began in May,
the new class of 2013 has been in full swing
for quite some time as they already near the
end of their first summer term. A total of 80
students make up this new PA class, ranking
the LMU-DCOM PA program within the top
5% in the nation in terms of class size.
Approximately 66% of the class comes to us
from the surrounding Appalachian region, with
the majority of those from Tennessee, Kentucky
and Virginia. The average GPA for the new class
is 3.4 and the average age is 26 years old.
LMU-DCOM PA Class of 2013
For more information about the PA Class of 2013, please click here.

Upcoming Accreditation Visit:
Following the DO program’s full accreditation in May 2011, LMU-DCOM’s PA program is
gearing up for their full-accreditation visit by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. (ARC—PA), which is scheduled to take place in midSeptember 2011. Results from the visit will be expected in the spring.
For more information on the LMU-DCOM PA program accreditation, please visit
www.arc-pa.org .
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Sciences Program

What Is the PMSP?
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Science Program is a 12-month certificate program of study
designed for college graduates who want to pursue a career in medicine and who need to receive additional academic training or wish to improve their academic credentials in order to
develop a successful application portfolio for admission into medical school.
The PMSP follows a rigorous curriculum of upper-level biology courses and medical gross
anatomy, which they take at LMU-DCOM with LMU-DCOM faculty and alongside LMUDCOM students.
One of the biggest advantages for students in the PMSP is that they will be guaranteed an interview at LMU-DCOM for admission into the DO program. In fact, 80% of this past year’s
PMSP students were accepted into the DO class of 2015, adding cultural diversity to the LMU
-DCOM student population. LMU’s PMSP faculty is dedicated to continue to produce successful medical school applicants.
For more information on the PSMP’s curriculum, overview, admissions and more, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/academics/pmsp/index.shtml or contact Dr. Amiel Jarstfer at
amiel.jarstfer@lmunet.edu or at 423-869-6364.
LMU-DCOM Facilities
Expansion
With the many programs within LMU’s
Division of Health Sciences, including
the DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine, the Caylor School of Nursing, and the many other undergraduate,
pre-professional, graduate and professional programs offered at LMU, it is
clear that these areas of study are a primary focus for the university. Building
on this emphasis, LMU is currently undertaking construction of a new Math &
Science building, expected to open in the
fall of 2012. This massive four-story building will be 120,000 square-feet and will
house numerous state-of-the-art lecture
halls, classrooms, laboratories and study
halls, and will feature some of the best
and latest technology available.
In addition to housing all the undergraduate and pre-professional math
and science academic programs, this
building will also serve as an expansion
to the LMU-DCOM facilities, with certain labs that will be reserved for use by
the DO students. The building will also
be home to the PMSP program and to the
future proposed LMU College of Veterinary and Comparative Medicine.
Lincoln Memorial University
Future Math & Sciences Building
LMU-DCOM E-Newsletter
Summer 2011 Issue
Summer 2011 Issue
www.LMUnet.edu/dcom/
Greetings from LMU-DCOM!
As the month of July is quickly winding down and we
are all gearing up for yet another academic year, Lincoln Memorial University—DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine is proud to look back on what has
been a very successful year marked by some important
milestones in the school’s history. As the new Admissions Recruiter for LMU-DCOM, it is my pleasure to
share with you the college’s exciting news and developments, and keep you updated on all the important
information pertinent to your Pre-Medical students.
I will be looking to schedule visits with you during the
fall or spring semesters, to speak with you further
about LMU-DCOM and hopefully present the information in person to your students.
LMU-DCOM Receives Full
Accreditation
Following a February visit from the
American Osteopathic Association—
Commission on Osteopathic College
Accreditation, LMU-DCOM is proud
to announce that it was granted its full
accreditation by AOA—COCA on
May 1, 2011. Additional information
on accreditation can be found at
www.aoacoca.org/ .
LMU-DCOM Dean Named
President-Elect of AOA
In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me
or any member of our Admissions Office with any
questions. We are here to assist you and your students
and facilitate their admission process. I look forward to
hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Juliette Egnatz
Admissions Recruiter
(423) 869-6478
juliette.egnatz@lmunet.edu
Ray E. Stowers, DO, FACOFP
Health Sciences Vice President
LMU-DCOM Dean
LMU-DCOM Graduates Its First Class
During its recent annual business
meeting in Chicago, the American
Osteopathic Association named LMUDCOM’s Dean, Ray E. Stowers, DO,
president-elect of the AOA. This prestigious appointment came only three
months after Dr. Stowers was awarded
the Paul Grayson Smith, Sr. Physician
of the Year Award by the Tennessee
Osteopathic Medical Association
(TOMA), during their annual conference in Gatlinburg in April.
May 14, 2011 was a historical day for LMU-DCOM as
its Inaugural Class of 2011 walked across the graduating stage before tossing their caps in celebration of
becoming the first set of LMU-DCOM osteopathic
physicians. The commencement address was delivered
by Dr. Karen Nichols, president of the American Osteopathic Association.
The Class of 2011 is now entering residencies in communities within 28 different states, as far as Hawaii
and as close as Knoxville, Tenn. Seventy-five percent
of the class will be entering a primary care residency in
the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN and emergency medicine. The other
25% will be entering a residency in areas of specialty
care, including surgery, urological surgery, psychiatry,
orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology, physical med &
rehabilitation, neuromusculoskeletal/OMT and pathology.
For more detailed information on the residency placement of our Class of 2011, please visit the following
links:
- Residency Placement by Location
- Residency Placement Analysis
- Map of Residency Placements
LMU-DCOM Welcomes Its Class of 2015
After a year-long, thorough selection process by the
DCOM admissions staff and the faculty advisors, we
are happy to be welcoming the Class of 2015, the newest addition to the DCOM family. The 162 spots of this
new class were filled from a pool of 3,000 applicants,
of which 405 were interviewed on campus.
The Class of 2015 is a diverse group of students, representing several different ethnic races, including American Indian or Native Alaskan, Asian, AfricanAmerican and Hispanic among others. Sixty percent of
the class comes from the Southern Appalachian region,
including 55 students from the state of Tennessee, 13
from Kentucky, 10 from Virginia, two from Georgia
and one from Arkansas. The other 40% will be joining
us from other states as far as Alaska and Hawaii.
On Tuesday, July 26, the new class will arrive on campus for a detailed orientation, which will last through
Thursday the 28th and end with a nice evening Barbeque with the college’s faculty and staff. Classes for the
new class will begin on Friday, July 29, and their
White Coat Ceremony will then follow, scheduled to
take place on Saturday, September 24, in LMU’s Tex
Turner Arena.
Dr. Ray E. Stowers, an AOA boardcertified family physician, has been
instrumental in the development of
future osteopathic physicians for many
years and has been a big advocate of
rural medicine particularly. Dr. Stowers will undoubtedly continue to have
a big impact on the growth of osteopathic medicine around the nation.
For more information about Dr. Ray
E. Stowers, click here.
About LMU-DCOM
The DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine is located on the campus of
Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tenn., a small town nestled in
the beautiful mountains of the Appalachian region, only a few miles from
the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The state-of-the-art college
was founded on August 1, 2007, and
opened its doors to its inaugural class
on August 3, 2007.
The region’s rural setting is key to
upholding LMU-DCOM’s mission of
producing outstanding and caring osteopathic physicians who will focus
on providing health care in underserved communities in Appalachia and
across the nation.
In addition to offering the Doctor of
Osteopathic Medicine (DO) program,
LMU-DCOM also offers a Physician
Assistant (PA) program, as well as a
DO-MBA program for students wishing to complement their education
with a business degree. A Postbaccalaureate Medical Sciences program is also offered for students who
need to strengthen their science
knowledge and grade point average
before applying to the DO program.
More information about LMU-DCOM
can be found at www.LMUnet.edu/
dcom/ .
PA Program News

Inaugural Class Graduation:
On Saturday, July 30, LMU-DCOM will graduate its first PA
class in the Sam and Sue Mars Performing Arts Center in the
Duke Hall of Citizenship. All 32 students from the PA Class
of 2011 have recently completed their clinical rotations in
various locations across the nation, and some even overseas.
They will be awarded a Master of Medical Science degree in
Physician Assistant Studies (MMS) and will be receiving notification of their scores from the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam over the next few weeks.

Class of 2012 White Coat Ceremony & Rotations:
On Saturday, June 18, LMU-DCOM held the White Coat Ceremony for the PA Class of 2012.
All 57 students received their symbolic physician’s garment in anticipation of their clinical
year. Students will be completing several rotations in many different locations including Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Florida, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Alaska. Just like some of the students from the PA
Class of 2011, a few of our 2012 PA students will also have the opportunity to complete rotations overseas in places like Australia and Uganda.
For more information on the PA program’s clinical year schedule, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/dcom/pa/academics.shtml .

Welcome to The Class of 2013:
As classes for the PA students began in May,
the new class of 2013 has been in full swing
for quite some time as they already near the
end of their first summer term. A total of 80
students make up this new PA class, ranking
the LMU-DCOM PA program within the top
5% in the nation in terms of class size.
Approximately 66% of the class comes to us
from the surrounding Appalachian region, with
the majority of those from Tennessee, Kentucky
and Virginia. The average GPA for the new class
is 3.4 and the average age is 26 years old.
LMU-DCOM PA Class of 2013
For more information about the PA Class of 2013, please click here.

Upcoming Accreditation Visit:
Following the DO program’s full accreditation in May 2011, LMU-DCOM’s PA program is
gearing up for their full-accreditation visit by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. (ARC—PA), which is scheduled to take place in midSeptember 2011. Results from the visit will be expected in the spring.
For more information on the LMU-DCOM PA program accreditation, please visit
www.arc-pa.org .
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Sciences Program

What Is the PMSP?
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Science Program is a 12-month certificate program of study
designed for college graduates who want to pursue a career in medicine and who need to receive additional academic training or wish to improve their academic credentials in order to
develop a successful application portfolio for admission into medical school.
The PMSP follows a rigorous curriculum of upper-level biology courses and medical gross
anatomy, which they take at LMU-DCOM with LMU-DCOM faculty and alongside LMUDCOM students.
One of the biggest advantages for students in the PMSP is that they will be guaranteed an interview at LMU-DCOM for admission into the DO program. In fact, 80% of this past year’s
PMSP students were accepted into the DO class of 2015, adding cultural diversity to the LMU
-DCOM student population. LMU’s PMSP faculty is dedicated to continue to produce successful medical school applicants.
For more information on the PSMP’s curriculum, overview, admissions and more, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/academics/pmsp/index.shtml or contact Dr. Amiel Jarstfer at
amiel.jarstfer@lmunet.edu or at 423-869-6364.
LMU-DCOM Facilities
Expansion
With the many programs within LMU’s
Division of Health Sciences, including
the DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine, the Caylor School of Nursing, and the many other undergraduate,
pre-professional, graduate and professional programs offered at LMU, it is
clear that these areas of study are a primary focus for the university. Building
on this emphasis, LMU is currently undertaking construction of a new Math &
Science building, expected to open in the
fall of 2012. This massive four-story building will be 120,000 square-feet and will
house numerous state-of-the-art lecture
halls, classrooms, laboratories and study
halls, and will feature some of the best
and latest technology available.
In addition to housing all the undergraduate and pre-professional math
and science academic programs, this
building will also serve as an expansion
to the LMU-DCOM facilities, with certain labs that will be reserved for use by
the DO students. The building will also
be home to the PMSP program and to the
future proposed LMU College of Veterinary and Comparative Medicine.
Lincoln Memorial University
Future Math & Sciences Building
LMU-DCOM E-Newsletter
Summer 2011 Issue
Summer 2011 Issue
www.LMUnet.edu/dcom/
Greetings from LMU-DCOM!
As the month of July is quickly winding down and we
are all gearing up for yet another academic year, Lincoln Memorial University—DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine is proud to look back on what has
been a very successful year marked by some important
milestones in the school’s history. As the new Admissions Recruiter for LMU-DCOM, it is my pleasure to
share with you the college’s exciting news and developments, and keep you updated on all the important
information pertinent to your Pre-Medical students.
I will be looking to schedule visits with you during the
fall or spring semesters, to speak with you further
about LMU-DCOM and hopefully present the information in person to your students.
LMU-DCOM Receives Full
Accreditation
Following a February visit from the
American Osteopathic Association—
Commission on Osteopathic College
Accreditation, LMU-DCOM is proud
to announce that it was granted its full
accreditation by AOA—COCA on
May 1, 2011. Additional information
on accreditation can be found at
www.aoacoca.org/ .
LMU-DCOM Dean Named
President-Elect of AOA
In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me
or any member of our Admissions Office with any
questions. We are here to assist you and your students
and facilitate their admission process. I look forward to
hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Juliette Egnatz
Admissions Recruiter
(423) 869-6478
juliette.egnatz@lmunet.edu
Ray E. Stowers, DO, FACOFP
Health Sciences Vice President
LMU-DCOM Dean
LMU-DCOM Graduates Its First Class
During its recent annual business
meeting in Chicago, the American
Osteopathic Association named LMUDCOM’s Dean, Ray E. Stowers, DO,
president-elect of the AOA. This prestigious appointment came only three
months after Dr. Stowers was awarded
the Paul Grayson Smith, Sr. Physician
of the Year Award by the Tennessee
Osteopathic Medical Association
(TOMA), during their annual conference in Gatlinburg in April.
May 14, 2011 was a historical day for LMU-DCOM as
its Inaugural Class of 2011 walked across the graduating stage before tossing their caps in celebration of
becoming the first set of LMU-DCOM osteopathic
physicians. The commencement address was delivered
by Dr. Karen Nichols, president of the American Osteopathic Association.
The Class of 2011 is now entering residencies in communities within 28 different states, as far as Hawaii
and as close as Knoxville, Tenn. Seventy-five percent
of the class will be entering a primary care residency in
the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN and emergency medicine. The other
25% will be entering a residency in areas of specialty
care, including surgery, urological surgery, psychiatry,
orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology, physical med &
rehabilitation, neuromusculoskeletal/OMT and pathology.
For more detailed information on the residency placement of our Class of 2011, please visit the following
links:
- Residency Placement by Location
- Residency Placement Analysis
- Map of Residency Placements
LMU-DCOM Welcomes Its Class of 2015
After a year-long, thorough selection process by the
DCOM admissions staff and the faculty advisors, we
are happy to be welcoming the Class of 2015, the newest addition to the DCOM family. The 162 spots of this
new class were filled from a pool of 3,000 applicants,
of which 405 were interviewed on campus.
The Class of 2015 is a diverse group of students, representing several different ethnic races, including American Indian or Native Alaskan, Asian, AfricanAmerican and Hispanic among others. Sixty percent of
the class comes from the Southern Appalachian region,
including 55 students from the state of Tennessee, 13
from Kentucky, 10 from Virginia, two from Georgia
and one from Arkansas. The other 40% will be joining
us from other states as far as Alaska and Hawaii.
On Tuesday, July 26, the new class will arrive on campus for a detailed orientation, which will last through
Thursday the 28th and end with a nice evening Barbeque with the college’s faculty and staff. Classes for the
new class will begin on Friday, July 29, and their
White Coat Ceremony will then follow, scheduled to
take place on Saturday, September 24, in LMU’s Tex
Turner Arena.
Dr. Ray E. Stowers, an AOA boardcertified family physician, has been
instrumental in the development of
future osteopathic physicians for many
years and has been a big advocate of
rural medicine particularly. Dr. Stowers will undoubtedly continue to have
a big impact on the growth of osteopathic medicine around the nation.
For more information about Dr. Ray
E. Stowers, click here.
About LMU-DCOM
The DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine is located on the campus of
Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tenn., a small town nestled in
the beautiful mountains of the Appalachian region, only a few miles from
the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The state-of-the-art college
was founded on August 1, 2007, and
opened its doors to its inaugural class
on August 3, 2007.
The region’s rural setting is key to
upholding LMU-DCOM’s mission of
producing outstanding and caring osteopathic physicians who will focus
on providing health care in underserved communities in Appalachia and
across the nation.
In addition to offering the Doctor of
Osteopathic Medicine (DO) program,
LMU-DCOM also offers a Physician
Assistant (PA) program, as well as a
DO-MBA program for students wishing to complement their education
with a business degree. A Postbaccalaureate Medical Sciences program is also offered for students who
need to strengthen their science
knowledge and grade point average
before applying to the DO program.
More information about LMU-DCOM
can be found at www.LMUnet.edu/
dcom/ .
PA Program News

Inaugural Class Graduation:
On Saturday, July 30, LMU-DCOM will graduate its first PA
class in the Sam and Sue Mars Performing Arts Center in the
Duke Hall of Citizenship. All 32 students from the PA Class
of 2011 have recently completed their clinical rotations in
various locations across the nation, and some even overseas.
They will be awarded a Master of Medical Science degree in
Physician Assistant Studies (MMS) and will be receiving notification of their scores from the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam over the next few weeks.

Class of 2012 White Coat Ceremony & Rotations:
On Saturday, June 18, LMU-DCOM held the White Coat Ceremony for the PA Class of 2012.
All 57 students received their symbolic physician’s garment in anticipation of their clinical
year. Students will be completing several rotations in many different locations including Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Florida, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Alaska. Just like some of the students from the PA
Class of 2011, a few of our 2012 PA students will also have the opportunity to complete rotations overseas in places like Australia and Uganda.
For more information on the PA program’s clinical year schedule, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/dcom/pa/academics.shtml .

Welcome to The Class of 2013:
As classes for the PA students began in May,
the new class of 2013 has been in full swing
for quite some time as they already near the
end of their first summer term. A total of 80
students make up this new PA class, ranking
the LMU-DCOM PA program within the top
5% in the nation in terms of class size.
Approximately 66% of the class comes to us
from the surrounding Appalachian region, with
the majority of those from Tennessee, Kentucky
and Virginia. The average GPA for the new class
is 3.4 and the average age is 26 years old.
LMU-DCOM PA Class of 2013
For more information about the PA Class of 2013, please click here.

Upcoming Accreditation Visit:
Following the DO program’s full accreditation in May 2011, LMU-DCOM’s PA program is
gearing up for their full-accreditation visit by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. (ARC—PA), which is scheduled to take place in midSeptember 2011. Results from the visit will be expected in the spring.
For more information on the LMU-DCOM PA program accreditation, please visit
www.arc-pa.org .
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Sciences Program

What Is the PMSP?
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Science Program is a 12-month certificate program of study
designed for college graduates who want to pursue a career in medicine and who need to receive additional academic training or wish to improve their academic credentials in order to
develop a successful application portfolio for admission into medical school.
The PMSP follows a rigorous curriculum of upper-level biology courses and medical gross
anatomy, which they take at LMU-DCOM with LMU-DCOM faculty and alongside LMUDCOM students.
One of the biggest advantages for students in the PMSP is that they will be guaranteed an interview at LMU-DCOM for admission into the DO program. In fact, 80% of this past year’s
PMSP students were accepted into the DO class of 2015, adding cultural diversity to the LMU
-DCOM student population. LMU’s PMSP faculty is dedicated to continue to produce successful medical school applicants.
For more information on the PSMP’s curriculum, overview, admissions and more, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/academics/pmsp/index.shtml or contact Dr. Amiel Jarstfer at
amiel.jarstfer@lmunet.edu or at 423-869-6364.
LMU-DCOM Facilities
Expansion
With the many programs within LMU’s
Division of Health Sciences, including
the DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine, the Caylor School of Nursing, and the many other undergraduate,
pre-professional, graduate and professional programs offered at LMU, it is
clear that these areas of study are a primary focus for the university. Building
on this emphasis, LMU is currently undertaking construction of a new Math &
Science building, expected to open in the
fall of 2012. This massive four-story building will be 120,000 square-feet and will
house numerous state-of-the-art lecture
halls, classrooms, laboratories and study
halls, and will feature some of the best
and latest technology available.
In addition to housing all the undergraduate and pre-professional math
and science academic programs, this
building will also serve as an expansion
to the LMU-DCOM facilities, with certain labs that will be reserved for use by
the DO students. The building will also
be home to the PMSP program and to the
future proposed LMU College of Veterinary and Comparative Medicine.
Lincoln Memorial University
Future Math & Sciences Building
LMU-DCOM E-Newsletter
Summer 2011 Issue
Summer 2011 Issue
www.LMUnet.edu/dcom/
Greetings from LMU-DCOM!
As the month of July is quickly winding down and we
are all gearing up for yet another academic year, Lincoln Memorial University—DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine is proud to look back on what has
been a very successful year marked by some important
milestones in the school’s history. As the new Admissions Recruiter for LMU-DCOM, it is my pleasure to
share with you the college’s exciting news and developments, and keep you updated on all the important
information pertinent to your Pre-Medical students.
I will be looking to schedule visits with you during the
fall or spring semesters, to speak with you further
about LMU-DCOM and hopefully present the information in person to your students.
LMU-DCOM Receives Full
Accreditation
Following a February visit from the
American Osteopathic Association—
Commission on Osteopathic College
Accreditation, LMU-DCOM is proud
to announce that it was granted its full
accreditation by AOA—COCA on
May 1, 2011. Additional information
on accreditation can be found at
www.aoacoca.org/ .
LMU-DCOM Dean Named
President-Elect of AOA
In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me
or any member of our Admissions Office with any
questions. We are here to assist you and your students
and facilitate their admission process. I look forward to
hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Juliette Egnatz
Admissions Recruiter
(423) 869-6478
juliette.egnatz@lmunet.edu
Ray E. Stowers, DO, FACOFP
Health Sciences Vice President
LMU-DCOM Dean
LMU-DCOM Graduates Its First Class
During its recent annual business
meeting in Chicago, the American
Osteopathic Association named LMUDCOM’s Dean, Ray E. Stowers, DO,
president-elect of the AOA. This prestigious appointment came only three
months after Dr. Stowers was awarded
the Paul Grayson Smith, Sr. Physician
of the Year Award by the Tennessee
Osteopathic Medical Association
(TOMA), during their annual conference in Gatlinburg in April.
May 14, 2011 was a historical day for LMU-DCOM as
its Inaugural Class of 2011 walked across the graduating stage before tossing their caps in celebration of
becoming the first set of LMU-DCOM osteopathic
physicians. The commencement address was delivered
by Dr. Karen Nichols, president of the American Osteopathic Association.
The Class of 2011 is now entering residencies in communities within 28 different states, as far as Hawaii
and as close as Knoxville, Tenn. Seventy-five percent
of the class will be entering a primary care residency in
the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN and emergency medicine. The other
25% will be entering a residency in areas of specialty
care, including surgery, urological surgery, psychiatry,
orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology, physical med &
rehabilitation, neuromusculoskeletal/OMT and pathology.
For more detailed information on the residency placement of our Class of 2011, please visit the following
links:
- Residency Placement by Location
- Residency Placement Analysis
- Map of Residency Placements
LMU-DCOM Welcomes Its Class of 2015
After a year-long, thorough selection process by the
DCOM admissions staff and the faculty advisors, we
are happy to be welcoming the Class of 2015, the newest addition to the DCOM family. The 162 spots of this
new class were filled from a pool of 3,000 applicants,
of which 405 were interviewed on campus.
The Class of 2015 is a diverse group of students, representing several different ethnic races, including American Indian or Native Alaskan, Asian, AfricanAmerican and Hispanic among others. Sixty percent of
the class comes from the Southern Appalachian region,
including 55 students from the state of Tennessee, 13
from Kentucky, 10 from Virginia, two from Georgia
and one from Arkansas. The other 40% will be joining
us from other states as far as Alaska and Hawaii.
On Tuesday, July 26, the new class will arrive on campus for a detailed orientation, which will last through
Thursday the 28th and end with a nice evening Barbeque with the college’s faculty and staff. Classes for the
new class will begin on Friday, July 29, and their
White Coat Ceremony will then follow, scheduled to
take place on Saturday, September 24, in LMU’s Tex
Turner Arena.
Dr. Ray E. Stowers, an AOA boardcertified family physician, has been
instrumental in the development of
future osteopathic physicians for many
years and has been a big advocate of
rural medicine particularly. Dr. Stowers will undoubtedly continue to have
a big impact on the growth of osteopathic medicine around the nation.
For more information about Dr. Ray
E. Stowers, click here.
About LMU-DCOM
The DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine is located on the campus of
Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tenn., a small town nestled in
the beautiful mountains of the Appalachian region, only a few miles from
the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The state-of-the-art college
was founded on August 1, 2007, and
opened its doors to its inaugural class
on August 3, 2007.
The region’s rural setting is key to
upholding LMU-DCOM’s mission of
producing outstanding and caring osteopathic physicians who will focus
on providing health care in underserved communities in Appalachia and
across the nation.
In addition to offering the Doctor of
Osteopathic Medicine (DO) program,
LMU-DCOM also offers a Physician
Assistant (PA) program, as well as a
DO-MBA program for students wishing to complement their education
with a business degree. A Postbaccalaureate Medical Sciences program is also offered for students who
need to strengthen their science
knowledge and grade point average
before applying to the DO program.
More information about LMU-DCOM
can be found at www.LMUnet.edu/
dcom/ .
PA Program News

Inaugural Class Graduation:
On Saturday, July 30, LMU-DCOM will graduate its first PA
class in the Sam and Sue Mars Performing Arts Center in the
Duke Hall of Citizenship. All 32 students from the PA Class
of 2011 have recently completed their clinical rotations in
various locations across the nation, and some even overseas.
They will be awarded a Master of Medical Science degree in
Physician Assistant Studies (MMS) and will be receiving notification of their scores from the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam over the next few weeks.

Class of 2012 White Coat Ceremony & Rotations:
On Saturday, June 18, LMU-DCOM held the White Coat Ceremony for the PA Class of 2012.
All 57 students received their symbolic physician’s garment in anticipation of their clinical
year. Students will be completing several rotations in many different locations including Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Florida, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Alaska. Just like some of the students from the PA
Class of 2011, a few of our 2012 PA students will also have the opportunity to complete rotations overseas in places like Australia and Uganda.
For more information on the PA program’s clinical year schedule, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/dcom/pa/academics.shtml .

Welcome to The Class of 2013:
As classes for the PA students began in May,
the new class of 2013 has been in full swing
for quite some time as they already near the
end of their first summer term. A total of 80
students make up this new PA class, ranking
the LMU-DCOM PA program within the top
5% in the nation in terms of class size.
Approximately 66% of the class comes to us
from the surrounding Appalachian region, with
the majority of those from Tennessee, Kentucky
and Virginia. The average GPA for the new class
is 3.4 and the average age is 26 years old.
LMU-DCOM PA Class of 2013
For more information about the PA Class of 2013, please click here.

Upcoming Accreditation Visit:
Following the DO program’s full accreditation in May 2011, LMU-DCOM’s PA program is
gearing up for their full-accreditation visit by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. (ARC—PA), which is scheduled to take place in midSeptember 2011. Results from the visit will be expected in the spring.
For more information on the LMU-DCOM PA program accreditation, please visit
www.arc-pa.org .
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Sciences Program

What Is the PMSP?
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Science Program is a 12-month certificate program of study
designed for college graduates who want to pursue a career in medicine and who need to receive additional academic training or wish to improve their academic credentials in order to
develop a successful application portfolio for admission into medical school.
The PMSP follows a rigorous curriculum of upper-level biology courses and medical gross
anatomy, which they take at LMU-DCOM with LMU-DCOM faculty and alongside LMUDCOM students.
One of the biggest advantages for students in the PMSP is that they will be guaranteed an interview at LMU-DCOM for admission into the DO program. In fact, 80% of this past year’s
PMSP students were accepted into the DO class of 2015, adding cultural diversity to the LMU
-DCOM student population. LMU’s PMSP faculty is dedicated to continue to produce successful medical school applicants.
For more information on the PSMP’s curriculum, overview, admissions and more, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/academics/pmsp/index.shtml or contact Dr. Amiel Jarstfer at
amiel.jarstfer@lmunet.edu or at 423-869-6364.
LMU-DCOM Facilities
Expansion
With the many programs within LMU’s
Division of Health Sciences, including
the DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine, the Caylor School of Nursing, and the many other undergraduate,
pre-professional, graduate and professional programs offered at LMU, it is
clear that these areas of study are a primary focus for the university. Building
on this emphasis, LMU is currently undertaking construction of a new Math &
Science building, expected to open in the
fall of 2012. This massive four-story building will be 120,000 square-feet and will
house numerous state-of-the-art lecture
halls, classrooms, laboratories and study
halls, and will feature some of the best
and latest technology available.
In addition to housing all the undergraduate and pre-professional math
and science academic programs, this
building will also serve as an expansion
to the LMU-DCOM facilities, with certain labs that will be reserved for use by
the DO students. The building will also
be home to the PMSP program and to the
future proposed LMU College of Veterinary and Comparative Medicine.
Lincoln Memorial University
Future Math & Sciences Building
LMU-DCOM E-Newsletter
Summer 2011 Issue
Summer 2011 Issue
www.LMUnet.edu/dcom/
Greetings from LMU-DCOM!
As the month of July is quickly winding down and we
are all gearing up for yet another academic year, Lincoln Memorial University—DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine is proud to look back on what has
been a very successful year marked by some important
milestones in the school’s history. As the new Admissions Recruiter for LMU-DCOM, it is my pleasure to
share with you the college’s exciting news and developments, and keep you updated on all the important
information pertinent to your Pre-Medical students.
I will be looking to schedule visits with you during the
fall or spring semesters, to speak with you further
about LMU-DCOM and hopefully present the information in person to your students.
LMU-DCOM Receives Full
Accreditation
Following a February visit from the
American Osteopathic Association—
Commission on Osteopathic College
Accreditation, LMU-DCOM is proud
to announce that it was granted its full
accreditation by AOA—COCA on
May 1, 2011. Additional information
on accreditation can be found at
www.aoacoca.org/ .
LMU-DCOM Dean Named
President-Elect of AOA
In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me
or any member of our Admissions Office with any
questions. We are here to assist you and your students
and facilitate their admission process. I look forward to
hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Juliette Egnatz
Admissions Recruiter
(423) 869-6478
juliette.egnatz@lmunet.edu
Ray E. Stowers, DO, FACOFP
Health Sciences Vice President
LMU-DCOM Dean
LMU-DCOM Graduates Its First Class
During its recent annual business
meeting in Chicago, the American
Osteopathic Association named LMUDCOM’s Dean, Ray E. Stowers, DO,
president-elect of the AOA. This prestigious appointment came only three
months after Dr. Stowers was awarded
the Paul Grayson Smith, Sr. Physician
of the Year Award by the Tennessee
Osteopathic Medical Association
(TOMA), during their annual conference in Gatlinburg in April.
May 14, 2011 was a historical day for LMU-DCOM as
its Inaugural Class of 2011 walked across the graduating stage before tossing their caps in celebration of
becoming the first set of LMU-DCOM osteopathic
physicians. The commencement address was delivered
by Dr. Karen Nichols, president of the American Osteopathic Association.
The Class of 2011 is now entering residencies in communities within 28 different states, as far as Hawaii
and as close as Knoxville, Tenn. Seventy-five percent
of the class will be entering a primary care residency in
the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN and emergency medicine. The other
25% will be entering a residency in areas of specialty
care, including surgery, urological surgery, psychiatry,
orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology, physical med &
rehabilitation, neuromusculoskeletal/OMT and pathology.
For more detailed information on the residency placement of our Class of 2011, please visit the following
links:
- Residency Placement by Location
- Residency Placement Analysis
- Map of Residency Placements
LMU-DCOM Welcomes Its Class of 2015
After a year-long, thorough selection process by the
DCOM admissions staff and the faculty advisors, we
are happy to be welcoming the Class of 2015, the newest addition to the DCOM family. The 162 spots of this
new class were filled from a pool of 3,000 applicants,
of which 405 were interviewed on campus.
The Class of 2015 is a diverse group of students, representing several different ethnic races, including American Indian or Native Alaskan, Asian, AfricanAmerican and Hispanic among others. Sixty percent of
the class comes from the Southern Appalachian region,
including 55 students from the state of Tennessee, 13
from Kentucky, 10 from Virginia, two from Georgia
and one from Arkansas. The other 40% will be joining
us from other states as far as Alaska and Hawaii.
On Tuesday, July 26, the new class will arrive on campus for a detailed orientation, which will last through
Thursday the 28th and end with a nice evening Barbeque with the college’s faculty and staff. Classes for the
new class will begin on Friday, July 29, and their
White Coat Ceremony will then follow, scheduled to
take place on Saturday, September 24, in LMU’s Tex
Turner Arena.
Dr. Ray E. Stowers, an AOA boardcertified family physician, has been
instrumental in the development of
future osteopathic physicians for many
years and has been a big advocate of
rural medicine particularly. Dr. Stowers will undoubtedly continue to have
a big impact on the growth of osteopathic medicine around the nation.
For more information about Dr. Ray
E. Stowers, click here.
About LMU-DCOM
The DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine is located on the campus of
Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tenn., a small town nestled in
the beautiful mountains of the Appalachian region, only a few miles from
the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The state-of-the-art college
was founded on August 1, 2007, and
opened its doors to its inaugural class
on August 3, 2007.
The region’s rural setting is key to
upholding LMU-DCOM’s mission of
producing outstanding and caring osteopathic physicians who will focus
on providing health care in underserved communities in Appalachia and
across the nation.
In addition to offering the Doctor of
Osteopathic Medicine (DO) program,
LMU-DCOM also offers a Physician
Assistant (PA) program, as well as a
DO-MBA program for students wishing to complement their education
with a business degree. A Postbaccalaureate Medical Sciences program is also offered for students who
need to strengthen their science
knowledge and grade point average
before applying to the DO program.
More information about LMU-DCOM
can be found at www.LMUnet.edu/
dcom/ .
PA Program News

Inaugural Class Graduation:
On Saturday, July 30, LMU-DCOM will graduate its first PA
class in the Sam and Sue Mars Performing Arts Center in the
Duke Hall of Citizenship. All 32 students from the PA Class
of 2011 have recently completed their clinical rotations in
various locations across the nation, and some even overseas.
They will be awarded a Master of Medical Science degree in
Physician Assistant Studies (MMS) and will be receiving notification of their scores from the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam over the next few weeks.

Class of 2012 White Coat Ceremony & Rotations:
On Saturday, June 18, LMU-DCOM held the White Coat Ceremony for the PA Class of 2012.
All 57 students received their symbolic physician’s garment in anticipation of their clinical
year. Students will be completing several rotations in many different locations including Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Florida, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Alaska. Just like some of the students from the PA
Class of 2011, a few of our 2012 PA students will also have the opportunity to complete rotations overseas in places like Australia and Uganda.
For more information on the PA program’s clinical year schedule, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/dcom/pa/academics.shtml .
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Welcome to The Class of 2013:
As classes for the PA students began in May,
the new class of 2013 has been in full swing
for quite some time as they already near the
end of their first summer term. A total of 80
students make up this new PA class, ranking
the LMU-DCOM PA program within the top
5% in the nation in terms of class size.
Approximately 66% of the class comes to us
from the surrounding Appalachian region, with
the majority of those from Tennessee, Kentucky
and Virginia. The average GPA for the new class
is 3.4 and the average age is 26 years old.
LMU-DCOM PA Class of 2013
For more information about the PA Class of 2013, please click here.
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Upcoming Accreditation Visit:
Following the DO program’s full accreditation in May 2011, LMU-DCOM’s PA program is
gearing up for their full-accreditation visit by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. (ARC—PA), which is scheduled to take place in midSeptember 2011. Results from the visit will be expected in the spring.
For more information on the LMU-DCOM PA program accreditation, please visit
www.arc-pa.org .
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Sciences Program
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What Is the PMSP?
The Post-Baccalaureate Medical Science Program is a 12-month certificate program of study
designed for college graduates who want to pursue a career in medicine and who need to receive additional academic training or wish to improve their academic credentials in order to
develop a successful application portfolio for admission into medical school.
The PMSP follows a rigorous curriculum of upper-level biology courses and medical gross
anatomy, which they take at LMU-DCOM with LMU-DCOM faculty and alongside LMUDCOM students.
One of the biggest advantages for students in the PMSP is that they will be guaranteed an interview at LMU-DCOM for admission into the DO program. In fact, 80% of this past year’s
PMSP students were accepted into the DO class of 2015, adding cultural diversity to the LMU
-DCOM student population. LMU’s PMSP faculty is dedicated to continue to produce successful medical school applicants.
For more information on the PSMP’s curriculum, overview, admissions and more, please visit
www.lmunet.edu/academics/pmsp/index.shtml or contact Dr. Amiel Jarstfer at
amiel.jarstfer@lmunet.edu or at 423-869-6364.
LMU-DCOM Facilities
Expansion
With the many programs within LMU’s
Division of Health Sciences, including
the DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine, the Caylor School of Nursing, and the many other undergraduate,
pre-professional, graduate and professional programs offered at LMU, it is
clear that these areas of study are a primary focus for the university. Building
on this emphasis, LMU is currently undertaking construction of a new Math &
Science building, expected to open in the
fall of 2012. This massive four-story building will be 120,000 square-feet and will
house numerous state-of-the-art lecture
halls, classrooms, laboratories and study
halls, and will feature some of the best
and latest technology available.
In addition to housing all the undergraduate and pre-professional math
and science academic programs, this
building will also serve as an expansion
to the LMU-DCOM facilities, with certain labs that will be reserved for use by
the DO students. The building will also
be home to the PMSP program and to the
future proposed LMU College of Veterinary and Comparative Medicine.
Lincoln Memorial University
Future Math & Sciences Building