Campus Overview: The new VCOM building is approximately 60,000 square feet and is situated on a nine (9) acre campus. There are two parking areas: a student area with 260 spaces, and a faculty/staff area with 120 spaces. Handicapped and visitor parking is available in spaces along the front of the building. VCOM offers a state of the art anatomy lab which may well be the best in the nation. The information systems found at Virginia Tech provide our campus community with access to information systems and resources worldwide. VCOM classrooms are state-of-the-art. In addition to two theatre classrooms which seat 160 each, there are sixteen (16) moderately sized rooms available for small group learning. Clinical Skills Laboratories are interconnected using modern video, computer technology, and net meeting. VCOM provides a classroom environment that affords optimum learning conditions while demonstrating respect for both students and faculty alike. VCOM has recently added an 11,000 square foot research laboratory that houses seven (7) biomedical research laboratories. Clinical Exam Classroom / Primary Care and OMM Rooms There are six clinical exam rooms where OMM and physical exam skill labs are taught. Each room accommodates 26 to 30 students. Two faculty members are present in each of the six rooms to facilitate the hands-on teaching in the laboratories. The faculty member leading the course each day is viewed from the demonstration area over state-of-the-art PolyVision smart boards. Visual demonstrations are enhanced by three cameras that allow different angles of the exam to be viewed. These labs are all housed on the main floor of the building. There are ten small group learning rooms that can seat 16 students which are located on the third floor. Each room is equipped with a PolyVision board and projector. Presentations and case-based teaching are performed using PolyVision white boards. The tables within the rooms are electrically wired to support students' laptops. When teaching or testing with patient simulations, the room can be easily converted to resemble a physician's office. Each room contains a one-way window and audio monitoring capability from the hall. The tables are easily collapsed and stored in the back of the room and a room simulating a physician's office with a folding exam table and a folding self-contained sink are created. A video camera and audio system record all activity in the room and send it to the audiovisual suite. The east wing of the building houses two separate lecture halls. These rooms are 3,846 square feet and each can seat 160 students each. The podiums integrate the ability to display two computer projectors, a digital overhead, a DVD, and/or a video. The LCD projectors are top-of-the-line, providing a 3-D appearance to the projected material. Anatomy Lab The anatomy lab is the envy of many medical colleges. VCOM maintains a cadaver laboratory as the faculty believe anatomy is essential to the understanding and practice of osteopathic medicine and that the cadaver experience cannot be replaced with a totally virtual tool. The laboratory is over 4,000 square feet, and there is individual air ventilation at each table that draws air through the tables and away from students. The individual air exchange system for the tables that is externally vented provides the air in the laboratory to be exchanged greater than 17 times per hour. The room supports 32 cadavers. In addition to the cadaver, there are 32 PC desktops with advanced virtual anatomy software. Each first year student receives the desktop anatomical version of the virtual human as a learning tool. The third floor view through the windowed walls provide for a pleasant atmosphere and natural lighting. State-of-the-art models are present for all systems at each table in order for students to correlate their cadaver anatomical findings with normals. VCOM Library The VCOM Library is located on the second floor of the main facility at the Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine. It is a state-of-the-art electronic medical resource center serving the faculty, staff and students of the college. The VCOM library is hosted by VTLS Library Systems, an internationally known library and museum electronic host, and can be accessed from each student's home as well as the clinical sites. The VCOM library has over 200 texts and 500 journal resources. The VTLS portal allows high speed access to the most current evidence-based literature and educational resources currently available online. Medical students also have access on campus to the Virginia Tech Libraries which includes the main library, Carol M. Newman Library, and the Veterinary Medicine Library. The Newman Library, a member of the Association of Research Libraries, is a large research facility housing 2 million bound volumes, 6 million microforms, 8,870 videos and films, 8,640 cassettes and recordings and 131,472 maps. A special collections department houses major research and archival collections. Items in the collections may be located by visiting the library and using the online catalog. The electronic library is available 24 hours a day. Bookstore The bookstore is located within the VCOM campus library on the second floor. Operated by the Virginia Tech University Bookstores, the VCOM campus bookstore sells new required texts and references, as well as clinical items and equipment. VCOM logo items such as clothing and gifts are sold on-campus and also at the Virginia Tech University Bookstore located on Tech's campus and at an off-campus site in Blacksburg.