PCOM will be a national leader in training healthcare professionals who can provide
person-centered, interprofessional, collaborative care across the life span; we are
driven by osteopathic principles to focus on patient safety, healthcare quality improvement,
and optimizing the wellness of the diverse population we serve.
In pursuit of this vision, our graduates will become competent in the following domains
through comprehensive and integrated curriculum, experiential learning, and patient
care:
- Values, ethics and social justice;
- Roles and responsibilities;
- Interprofessional communication;
- Interprofessional, collaborative teamwork; and
- Collaborative decision-making clinical reasoning and critical thought informed by
interprofessional education.
To intentionally develop collaborative healthcare practitioners by having them learn
from, with, and about each others’ professions in relation to optimize patient-care
that is evidence-based and in consideration of social determinants of health, professional,
ethical, and cultural considerations in holistic health care.
- Interact with mutual respect and appreciation for others’ roles and responsibilities
to enhance the following practice areas: interprofessional and patient-provider communication
about patient care, research and advocacy.
- To establish shared values and ethical decision making and practice among healthcare
professional students toward holistic patient-centered care, best patient outcomes,
and multidisciplinary problem solving across the biopsychosocial cultural continuum
of care.
- To foster relationship-building values and the identity of a teamwork approach to
patient care, community service and teaching, and clinical research for the betterment
of the populations we serve, with an emphasis on underserved and disadvantaged populations.
- For students to have ongoing self-reflection on thoughts, feelings and behaviors that
enhance or inhibit interprofessional education and practice, and commit to lifelong
learning toward ongoing awareness and openness to providing interprofessional education
and care for the betterment of the community they serve.