Its innovative curriculum emphasizes the early introduction of clinical experience that focuses on primary care.
Faculty members represent a full range of basic science and clinical specialty areas.
With an emphasis on primary care, the curriculum is designed to graduate osteopathic physicians well prepared for the challenges of primary care or further specialty study. The mission of the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine is to prepare students to become primary care osteopathic physicians to serve the continuing need for primary care physicians in the State of Pennsylvania and surrounding areas. Special emphasis is given to osteopathic manipulative medicine and ambulatory primary care. Special attention is given to community medicine, geriatrics, rural medicine, and minority medicine. The Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine was established in 1975 by an act of the Ohio General Assembly to help relieve the state's growing shortage of family physicians and to train doctors to practice in medically underserved areas in Ohio.