PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) -
West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine is celebrating 50 years.
WVSOM is the largest aesculapian schoolhouse successful West Virginia that is based retired of Lewisburg, but has a schoolhouse successful Parkersburg.
The schoolhouse has immoderate of the highest fig of physicians moving successful agrarian communities.
Jim Nemitz, President of WVSOM, and Dr. Marla Haller, Assistant Regional Dean for Central West Statewide Campus, talked astir the past and aboriginal of WVSOM and the students.
Nemits said, “Our founders had a imaginativeness for populating the agrarian areas of West Virginia with doctors of Osteopathic Medicine, and 50 years aboriginal we person done that.”
Haller said, “We anticipation that arsenic our students rotate done those sites (hospitals), and if there’s residency opportunities for the students. If they are funny successful staying successful this country that they lucifer successful the residency, go attending physicians, and supply wellness attraction for this community.”
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