The majority of the first- and second-year curriculum are delivered in the lecture halls with tiered seating and well-equipped with audiovisual technology and wireless internet access. All the lecture halls are designed to allow team learning and teaching with interactive group discussions.
The lecture halls have wireless networks with redundant hard wiring, set up for distance technology, course capture, state-of-the-art audio and video and multiple large screens at the front of the room with supporting monitors for enhanced viewing. Available equipment for instructor use includes computer displays for a mix of DVD, video, and state-of-the-art HD projectors. Each student space within the lecture halls has data, interactive response, and electrical connections; all chairs are adjustable for ergonomically correct seating. Restrooms and wide hallways for circulation are adjacent to the classrooms.
The following spaces on the Harrogate campus are dedicated to the DO program in the LMU-DCOM building:
- 224 seat (4 for disabled seating) auditorium and (1) 247 seat auditorium (3,744 square feet each)
- (15) small conference rooms with seating for 12
- (1) Up to 40 seats, multi-purpose classroom
- (26) Faculty/Staff Offices Second Floor:
- Osteopathic Principles and Practice Lab (44 exam tables; 4,200 square feet)
- Anatomy Lab (1 pod with 8 anatomic donor tables)
- (10) Clinic Exam Rooms
- (28) Faculty/Staff Offices
- Microscope room
- Zebra Fish Lab
- (5) Simulation labs – (4) for daily use and (1) back-up
- 40 seat small classroom o (1) 60 seat small classroom
- (37) Faculty/Staff Offices
The first-floor auditoria (101 and 102) located in the LMU-DCOM Building are primarily designated for second-year osteopathic medical students with a current seating capacity of 224 and 247, respectively. The combined 101 and 102 classrooms have a capacity of 471 total seats. Although a wall separates the two classrooms, a door next to the podium between the auditorium allows the faculty to move from one auditorium to the next when both classrooms are used. The presentation can be electronically connected so that audio and presentation slides are shared simultaneously in real- time with both classes.
Attendance for lectures is not mandatory, but various activities such as Team-Based Learning, Osteopathic Principle and Practice (OPP) labs, Essentials of Patient Care (EPC) labs, practical exams, and Objective Structured Clinical Exams (OSCEs) are all mandatory. Anatomy, OPP, and EPC labs are broken into sections to allow for small groupings of students.
The current clinical exam center consists of 10 rooms used for case presentations, standardized patient encounters, OSCEs, and male/female exams. Six (6) high fidelity simulation labs are also available in the LMU-DCOM building. Priority of scheduling for both the clinical exam rooms and simulation labs are given to the DO program. All requests for the DO program’s curricular needs have been met and no activity has been denied.
The CVM building, where the medical school occupies additional faculty, staff, and student space, includes an additional twenty-four (24) clinical exam rooms and four (4) additional simulation labs. A total of two (2) debrief rooms and additional adjacent rooms that may be expanded for debriefing needs depending on the activity are also available for engaging students after encounters. The LMU-DCOM designated spaces are in addition to the already existing ten (10) clinical exam rooms and six (6) simulation labs located in the LMU-DCOM building. Formative and summative clinical examinations take place primarily in these spaces for OMS-Is and OMSIIs to accommodate the large class size. The multi-station OSCE component of the Clinical Skills Workshops (CSWs), a 2-day refresher of EPC and OPP for OMS-IIIs (graduation requirement), are also held here. The total count for both spaces will be thirty-four (34) clinical exam rooms and (8) simulation labs. All simulation (SIM) labs and clinical exam rooms are operated by DO program faculty and staff. Priority scheduling has always been and will remain, the LMU-DCOM DO program. The existing ten (10) exam rooms along with the six (6) SIM labs in the LMU-DCOM building remain intact and functional to allow for scheduling options for all health sciences programs.
The auditoria with a seating capacity of over 500 can be split into two 250+ spaces or one 500+ seating space. This auditorium will be available for the DO program to reserve as needed.
LMU- DCOM occupies approximately 1,550 sq. ft. of research space within the research lab, not including the microscopy square footage, which includes bench space for up to 20 researchers. Students desiring to participate in research may do so if approved by the Assistant Dean of Research and a faculty advisor is identified.
