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COM Outlook . Winter 2015
In an effort to gain an honest
critique regarding how NSU-COM
is perceived by those pursuing their
osteopathic education,
COM Outlook
reached out to several student lead-
ers to obtain constructive feedback
about what the College of Osteopath-
ic Medicine does well. More intrigu-
ingly, we offered these same students
an opportunity to offer suggestions
as to what they would eliminate,
enhance, or add if they were allowed
unfettered access to
rule the school.
Not surprisingly, the feedback
we received reflected a wealth of
opinions that ran the gamut from
extraordinarily frank and thought-
provoking to remarkably humorous.
NSU-COM Earns
Abundant Praise
Due to the student-centered and
open-minded philosophy of NSU-
COM’s administrators, the college
received high marks in a variety of
areas that ranged from technology
such as Tegrity, osteopathic prin-
ciples and practice, and the creation
of residencies and new specialties to
compensated travel for national and
international conferences, quality ed-
ucational and research opportunities,
and true concern for the students.
Carisa Champion-Lippmann, a
third-year student who served as
president of the college’s Student
Government Association (SGA) sev-
eral years ago and is the national chair
of AACOM’s Council of Osteopathic
Student Government Presidents that
represents all osteopathic medical
students in the country, credits much
of the college’s success to its dynamic
dean—Dr. Anthony J. Silvagni. “Our
dean is very student centered and
extremely active with our student
body,” she explained. “From coor-
dinating Dean’s Hours and having
lunch with the various academical
societies to his open-door policy,
these are aspects many students don’t
understand are not commonplace at
other medical schools. The fact that
our dean and many other administra-
tors listen to us and makes changes
based on student concerns is one of
the best things about our school.
“Our school also puts a lot of
time and effort into advocating and
lobbying and actively making things
happen as far as D.O. international
practice rights,” she added. “In addi-
tion, the college sets up all our core
rotations for us whereas other schools
allow students to do that for them-
selves. Cores are desirable because
OPP EXCELLENCE:
According to Jason Faucheux (pictured above performing OMM on the student in
the red T-shirt), “Students of each year consistently agree that the education we receive throughout
the first and second years in OPP prepares us well for the COMLEX and for our rotations.”
COLLEGE CAMARADERIE:
Pictured (from left) at OMED 2014, which was held October 25-29 in
Seattle, Washington, are Jordan Mathis, administrative assistant for alumni affairs, Lauren Boudreau,
Delfina Wilson, Ph.D., M.A., director of student services, and OMS-II Saamia Shaikh.
