Osteopathic Medicine

Overview

Through the four-year residential Osteopathic Medicine degree program at Liberty University , you’ll learn how to understand health and disease so you can effectively diagnose and treat in order to improve a patient’s quality of life. Here, you’ll gain specialized training in the musculoskeletal system combined with the latest advances in medical technology. Learn how to treat more than symptoms as you help your patients achieve health in mind, body, and spirit.

In LUCOM’s distinctly Christian environment, you’ll be taught by experienced professors who place an emphasis on research, family, faith, ethics, professionalism, and success.

Career Opportunities with a DO Degree

As a board-certified osteopathic physician, you may practice in every state and in more than 65 countries worldwide. Licensed osteopathic physicians can:

• Practice medicine in all medical specialties

• Diagnose and treat patients

• Prescribe medications

• Perform surgery

• Work in a hospital caring for patients with injuries or life-threatening illnesses

• Teach future generations of physicians

• Conduct research and work in laboratories

• Study the cause of illnesses and look for better ways to treat diseases and injuries

• Run medical centers

Accreditation

Accredited by the American Osteopathic Association Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (AOA-COCA), LUCOM will train you in taking a whole-person approach to patient treatment and care.