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With an eye on its future, Magnolia Regional Health Center (MRHC) launched into a partnership with Kentucky based Pikeville College School of Osteopathic Medicine (PCSOM) in August to take the next step in becoming a regional health center.

The partnership makes MRHC a core teaching site for Pikeville's third-year osteopathic medicine students. Two-year clinical rotations in the areas of primary care, cardiology, women and children's health, and surgery will be offered for four new osteopathic medicine students each year at the Corinth hospital. MRHC physicians will be working closely with Pikeville to establish protocol for program implementation and clinical requirements.

MRHC CEO Rick Napper said it is imperative for the center to consider its regionalization program.

"This regionalization program includes the long-term placement of qualified physicians to smaller regional areas," he said.

The principles of osteopathic medicine and clinical skills combined with basic science to guide therapy, effective communication, diagnosis, management and prevention, life-long learning, self awareness and self care, social and community contexts of care and moral reasons and ethical judgment, will maximize the student's educational opportunity, he said.

PCSOM, founded in 1994, is the 19th school of osteopathic medicine in the United States. It emphasizes primary care, encourages research, and promotes lifelong scholarly activity.



January 2007

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