LMU-DCOM
E-Newsletter
Spring 2012 Issue
Spring 2012 Issue
www.LMUnet.edu/dcom/
Spring Greetings from LMU-DCOM!
With yet another semester
and another academic year
coming to an end, I am
happy to share with you
our Spring 2012 Newsletter in which you will find
all the important news and
events from this semester.
A lot has been going on at Lincoln Memorial University—DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine this
semester, including a notable class-size expansion and
much more. I hope you will enjoy reading about our
highlights and if you have any questions regarding any
of the content or wish to contact me with any other
inquiries, please do not hesitate to do so.
On behalf of the entire LMU-DCOM family, I wish
you all the best for the remainder of the semester and a
great summer!
Sincerely,
Juliette Egnatz
Admissions Recruiter
(423) 869-6478
juliette.egnatz@lmunet.edu
Class of 2012 Residency
Matches
Class-size Increase
Granted for DO
Program
Following a request for a class size
increase, submitted to the accrediting
body—AOA COCA—in the fall, it is
with much excitement that LMUDCOM announces that this request
was approved earlier this spring.
Hence, beginning with the upcoming
Class of 2016 who will join us this
fall, our class size has been officially
increased from 150 students to 225
students. Some of the factors taken
into consideration before this approval
included available facility space, faculty and staff workload and residency
placement opportunities. LMUDCOM is prepared to meet all these
needs.
With the opening of the new Math and
Science Building (highlighted below),
the DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine will benefit from almost
50% more space available for student
instruction. In addition, the administration has been working thoroughly
toward the hiring of competitive additional faculty and staff to join our current dedicated team. Finally, we have
also worked tirelessly with hospitals
throughout the region to establish as
many as 500 new osteopathic residency spots that will be available to resident physicians in the coming years.
Additional information on accreditation can be found at
www.aoacoca.org/ .
New Math & Sciences
Building Set To Open
During Summer
To view a larger map, please click here.
Continuing in the trend of last year’s very successful
residency matches for our inaugural class of 2011,
LMU-DCOM is proud to announce the residency
placements for its second graduating class of 2012.
Following the osteopathic Match Day on February 13
and the allopathic Match Day on March 12, our class
of 2012 is now ready to embark on the next stage of
their medical career. Eighty percent of the class will be
entering residency training in primary care fields,
which include family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN and emergency medicine. The other
twenty percent will be entering residencies in 14 different specialty fields. These numbers are similar to last
year’s, when seventy-five percent of the graduating
class went into primary care.
“As an institution with a strong mission of service to
the underserved, we are glad to know that a majority of
our graduates will be pursuing those primary care positions that are so critically needed in our region and
around the country,” said Ray E. Stowers, D.O., LMUDCOM Dean and Vice President of Health Sciences
division. “At the same time, we celebrate those that
will be pursuing a non-primary care position. We are
exceedingly proud of all of the students we are about to
welcome into the profession as osteopathic physicians.”
LMU-DCOM had the fourth highest match rate within
this year’s osteopathic match, behind Michigan State
University, Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine and Pacific Northwest University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Last year, LMU-DCOM
had the second highest osteopathic match rate in the
country.
The construction of LMU’s upcoming Math & Sciences building is
fast progressing and is on schedule for
its expected summer opening. This
massive four-story building will be
140,000 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 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.
AOA President Visits
LMU-DCOM
The LMU-DCOM Class of 2012 will celebrate its
graduation on Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 10 a.m. in the
Tex Turner Arena on the LMU main campus.
For more information on LMU-DCOM Class of 2012
residency placements, please click here.
Class of 2014 Rotations
With only three weeks remaining before the date of
their Level 1 COMLEX Boards Examination, our
students from the class of 2014 are already looking
ahead to the fall, when they will spread across our 13
core training sites and beyond, all over the nation, to
begin the clinical portion of their medical education.
Left: Dr. Ray E. Stowers, D.O.
Right: Dr. Martin S. Levine, D.O.
On April 5th, Dr. Martin S. Levine,
the 2011-2012 President of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA),
made a trip to Harrogate, TN, to visit
LMU-DCOM.
While here, Dr. Levine toured the
facility, met with faculty and students,
and spoke to first- and second-year
LMU-DCOM students about the AOA
and the osteopathic profession.
Among other things, Dr. Levine encouraged our students to “think osteopathically” and to routinely incorporate osteopathic manipulative medicine into treatment of patients.
For more information about LMU-DCOM’s rotations
schedule and training sites, click here.
LMU-DCOM Professor to Be
Featured on New National
Geographic Channel Series
Written by Amy Drittler, Director of
Marketing and Public Relations for
LMU Health Sciences Division
Dr. Natalie Shirley, assistant
professor of anatomy at
LMU-DCOM will soon add
a new accomplishment to
her already impressive resume: television star.
Shirley is one of several forensic scientists featured in the new National Geographic Channel series “The Great American Manhunt,”
which premiered Thursday, April 19, at 9 p.m. eastern
time and airs weekly. In the show, she is joined by psychologist Dr. Dan Shapiro and retired Miami-Dade
(Fla.) police lieutenant Bill Erfurth.
In the ultimate forensics challenge, National Geographic
Channel takes away every shortcut that helps crime
fighters identify a “John Doe” —dental records, DNA
databases and all forms of personal identification—to
find out if a team of experts can positively identify a
complete stranger’s occupation, exact location and full
name using only forensic clues from an anonymous target. The only hint: there is something exceptional about
each subject—a great sporting achievement, surviving a
disaster or excelling at a particular physical, artistic or
mental skill. “The Great American Manhunt” is for anyone who has ever wondered how those “CSI”-type investigators on TV manage to track down anyone, anywhere, at anytime.
“Working on the series was a new and challenging experience,” Shirley said. “It stretched my thinking and
used parts of my skill set that I don’t usually have to
apply in daily casework. The process of figuring out the
unknown targets was exciting, and sometimes we hit
dead ends and had to rethink our strategy. In the end, I
learned a lot and got to met many interesting and brilliant people in our search for the unknowns.”
In addition to her appointment at LMU-DCOM, Shirley
also serves as an adjunct faculty member in the University of Tennessee Anthropology Department. She received her B.A. and M.A. in anthropology from Louisiana Sate University, where she was actively involved in
the forensic anthropology program. She received her
Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of Tennessee in
Knoxville as a student of Dr. Richard Jantz, director
emeritus of the Forensic Anthropology Center. Her research interests include skeletal maturation in modern
populations, age and sex estimation from the human
skeleton, and skeletal trauma. She is an active participant in the American Academy of Forensic Sciences,
and in 2007, she was awarded the Emerging Forensic
Scientist Award for her research in skeletal maturation.
Shirley is also involved in the U.S. Department of Justice’s International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program’s initiative in Colombia, in which she
participates in training research exercises to assist the
Colombian forensic community in the reconciliation of
crimes against humanity.
For more information on National Geographic Channel’s new series “The Great American Manhunt” visit
www.natgeotv.com .
Spring 2012 Student Activities
 Second Annual Doggy Dash to Benefit
Claiborne Animal Shelter
On Sunday,
April 15,
LMUDCOM students hosted
the Second Annual Doggy Dash 5K Run and Dog
Walk, which took place on the main campus of Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tenn. The
Doggy Dash is an event to benefit the Claiborne Animal Shelter and is sponsored by student clubs at
LMU-DCOM. The earlier 2011 Doggy Dash raised
$3,200 to benefit the Claiborne Animal Shelter. The
Claiborne Animal Shelter is a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to building and operating an animal
shelter in Claiborne County, Tenn. The shelter has
been built entirely from donations, fundraisers and
volunteers. The money raised by the inaugural Doggy Dash 5K provided funds to operate a low-cost
spay and neuter clinic at the Shelter.
 5th Annual Golden Scalpel Golf Tournament
The Fifth Annual Golden Scalpel Golf Tournament was held
on Saturday, April 14, at Woodlake Golf Club in Tazewell,
Tenn. The tournament was presented by the Student Osteopathic Surgical Association at
Lincoln Memorial UniversityDeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine (LMUDCOM) and was sponsored by DeRoyal Industries.
A portion of the proceeds from the tournament will
go to benefit the Remote Area Medical (RAM)
clinic at LMU, scheduled for June 2-3, 2012 (for
more information about the RAM clinic, click here).
 Annual Gala Night
On Friday, April 20, LMU-DCOM students, faculty
and staff all joined together along with spouses and
significant others for a the annual gala night sponsored by the Student Government Association. The
event, held at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Knoxville, Tenn, was a great way for the LMU-DCOM
family to celebrate yet another successful year.
Levine is an osteopathic family physician in Bayonne and Jersey City, N.J.
He also serves as associate dean for
education development at the Touro
College of Osteopathic Medicine in
the Harlem neighborhood of New
York City. Levine also serves as discipline chief of family medicine and
associate professor of clinical family
medicine at the University of New
England College of Osteopathic Medicine's New Jersey Clinical Campus
based at Seton Hall University School
of Health and Medical Sciences. He is
one of more than 20 osteopathic physicians in his family. His father, Dr.
Howard M. Levine, served as president of the AOA from 1997-1998.
Levine will be succeeded as AOA
president by Vice President of Health
Sciences and Dean of LMU-DCOM
Dr. Ray E. Stowers. Stowers is currently the president-elect of the AOA
and will be inaugurated as the 20122013 AOA President during the
AOA’s annual House of Delegates
meeting in July 2012.
News from Admissions
 2012 Application Cycle:
As the academic year is quickly
winding down, the LMU-DCOM
Admissions office has completed
the last rounds of interviews for the
2012 application cycle and we are
in the final stages of filling our incoming class of 2016 to capacity.
During this application cycle, we
received over 3,300 applications, a
record increase of 17.8% from last
year’s application numbers, and
interviewed a total of 501 applicants. Once the class is finalized
and confirmed, a profile of the class
will be compiled and shared with
you in this summer’s newsletter.
 Spring 2012 Recruiting:
In addition to working hard to fill
the new class, I, Admissions Recruiter for LMU-DCOM, along with
some of my admissions colleagues
have stayed busy with a rigorous
recruiting schedule throughout our
Appalachian region and far beyond.
Since mid-January, we have visited
a total of 44 colleges and universities for 9 health professions fairs
and 35 private visits. All private
visits included a PowerPoint presentation to pre-med/pre-health clubs
and AMSA/SOMA chapters, about
LMU-DCOM and our DO program,
followed by a Q&A session.
If you are interested in having one
of us visit your campus next semester to present to your pre-med/prehealth students and other interested
parties, please do not hesitate to
contact me at
juliette.egnatz@lmunet.edu
to arrange a possible date.
 Osteopathic Medicine
Awareness Conference:
On Saturday, April 14, the Office of
Admissions hosted an Open House /
Osteopathic Medicine Awareness
Conference. A total of 46 guests
joined us from locations across five
different states, some as far as seven
hours away. Our guests included
prospective students, faculty members and advisors, as well as community members desiring to learn
more about osteopathic medicine
and our facilities. The event agenda
included the following:
 Osteopathic Medicine Overview
 Curriculum Overview
 Application and Financial Services processes
 Tour of facilities
 OMM (Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine) Demonstration
 Q&A Session with current students
 Lunch with students and staff
If you are interested in attending
one of our future Open House /
OMAC events, stayed tuned as we
will announce dates on our website
and in future newsletters.
 June 2012 NAAHP Conference Announcement:
We are happy to announce that two
LMU-DCOM Admissions representatives— Dr. Jonathan Leo, Associate Dean of Students and VP for
Admissions and Student Services,
and Juliette Egnatz, Admissions
Recruiter—will be attending the
2012 NAAHP Conference in Baltimore, MD, scheduled from June 20
through June 24. Be sure to stop by
our table to get information about
LMU-DCOM as well as to enter
your name in our drawing for a
chance to win a Lenovo Ideapad
Tablet valued at $400!! We look
forward to seeing you then!
Visit our LMU-DCOM
table at the
NAAHP
Conference
and enter your name
in a drawing for your chance
to win a Lenovo Ideapad
Tablet valued at $400!!
PA Program News

PA Program Now Fully Accredited!
The Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) has granted Accreditation-Continued to
the Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic
Medicine Physician Assistant Program, sponsored by Lincoln Memorial University. Continued accreditation is an accreditation status granted when a currently accredited program is in compliance
with the ARC-PA Standards.
Continued Accreditation remains in effect until the program closes or withdraws from the
accreditation process or until accreditation is withdrawn for failure to comply with the Standards. The approximate date for the next comprehensive review of the program by the ARCPA will be March 2015.
For more information on the LMU-DCOM PA program accreditation, please visit
www.arc-pa.org .
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Class of 2014 Set to Begin:
With yet another admissions cycle complete, the 92 students in the new PA Class of 2014 are
set to begin classes on Monday, May 14, 2012. The next admissions cycle for the Class of
2015 is already open. Applicants can start applying and all the information to apply can be
found on our website at www.lmunet.edu/dcom/pa/admissions.shtml .

PA Open House:
The PA Program held their annual Open House on Saturday, March 31. Approximately 60
guests were in attendance.

Pre-Requisite Changes:
There have been some changes to the pre-requisites for the PA program. Previously, the requirements included either one semester of Organic Chemistry with lab OR Biochemistry.
Under the changes, the requirements are now one semester of Organic Chemistry with lab
AND Biochemistry or a second semester of Organic Chemistry with lab. For more information about the pre-requisites, click here.
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. Ryan Stump at
frank.stump@lmunet.edu or at 423-869-6328.
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 stateof-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 LMUDCOM’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 Post-baccalaureate 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/ .