Leadership - An Enduring Mission

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not the purpose of a ship.
~Winston Churchill

October 2024 | Vol. 68, No. 1
Written by Silvia Ferretti, DO

To recognize the newly reimagined and redesigned digital Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Association (POMA) Journal, the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) offers a special piece highlighting LEADERSHIP, a quality that endures through reimaginings and redesigns; always pertinent, always necessary, and always an attribute of all that is LECOM.

As an integral part of the Pennsylvania osteopathic medical community, and in serving for a higher good, the mission is the roadmap to success. That enduring mission is rooted in an unshakable commitment to leadership.

When the Board of Trustees of Millcreek Community Hospital founded the LECOM in the early 1990s, it became the 16th college of osteopathic medicine in the nation. Since that time, the determined efforts of faculty, staff, and students alike have propelled LECOM to its place as the largest educational institution of its kind.

LECOM educates osteopathic physicians, pharmacists, dentists, and podiatrists to practice medicine upon a higher level, embodying the credo not for ourselves, but for others. It inculcates the values of inclusive leadership excellence - not solely in educational training, but in community service and through awareness of the human condition. Not only is LECOM a leader in education, but the College and LECOM Health are partners in providing for the health care needs of the Erie community. LECOM has demonstrated an unwavering and resolute commitment to all of the communities in which it has come to lay its cornerstone.