PCOM maintains its main campus in Philadelphia and a branch campus in Suwanee, Georgia area and a location in Moultrie, Georgia.

PCOM-The professional resources of a city rich in medical history, achievements and scientific advances are only 15 minutes from the main PCOM campus on City Avenue. This is the seventh site for the college that graduated its first class of two physicians in 1900. It is located on a 17 acre campus that houses four buildings.

The PCOM-Georgia campus occupies 23 acres on Peachtree Road, NW, in Suwanee, Gwinnett County, Georgia. The 172,000 square foot Old Peachtree building features large and small classrooms, conference areas and study spaces. It also houses research and multi-use basic science laboratory, an anatomy laboratory, simulation center, three pharmacy practice labs and a large osteopathic manipulative medicine practice suite.

A second campus building, the 21,000 square foot Northlake building, houses offices for administrative personnel, admissions, marketing and communications, human resources and alumni relations. The campus is also home to Georgia osteopathic Care Center, an osteopathic manipulative medicine clinic.

PCOM-South Georgia occupies 31 acres off Tallokas Road in Moultrie, Georgia. The 75,000 square foot, stat of the art facility includes classrooms, an anatomy lab, an Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine lab, simulation center, small group study rooms, information commons and a café.

The City Avenue site provides a true college campus atmosphere for students, unique among urban medical colleges. All facilities are specially equipped for students with disabilities.

Hassman Academic Center (HAC)
The Howard A. Hassman, DO ’83 Academic Center (formerly known as Evans Hall)—the College’s main building—houses the Zedeck Family and Rose K. Ginsburg amphitheaters, the O.J. Snyder Memorial Library, the Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Teaching Center, the Gober OMM Practice Room, research labs, anatomy labs and more.

The seven levels of HAC also house the College library, Office of the Provost, Student Affairs, Admissions and Clinical Education. Faculty offices throughout the building are combined with laboratories where faculty, graduates and students pursue instruction and research. The Anatomy Laboratory, which accommodates 250 students simultaneously in the cadaver dissection lab, is recognized as one of the most advanced teaching laboratories in the nation. The architecture of Evans Hall incorporates the teaching of large classes with the enrichment of student-teacher relationships through the use of small classrooms.

HAC is equipped with varied and sophisticated instructional media, exhibit areas and electronic communications equipment. Video monitors are built into the lecture amphitheaters, laboratories and many other teaching areas in the building. The original Evans Hall architecture was enhanced with a three-story addition in 1996. It provides student lounges, study rooms, cafeteria, classrooms, faculty offices, a student computer lab and an osteopathic manipulative medicine teaching center.

The adjacent building—Rowland Hall—is home to the Dr. Michael and Wendy Saltzburg Clinical Learning and Assessment Center, an 11,000-square-foot learning lab designed to help students develop clinical and communication skills through the use of standardized patients and human patient simulators. Rowland Hall also contains the The Angus Gordon Cathie, DO, Collection along with classrooms, study areas, computer labs, student services, academic offices and other support operations.

Other campus facilities include the Levin Administration Building, a 55,000-square-foot activities center and the parking garage.

The campus is also home to the Joseph M. Hassman, DO ’65 Family Medicine Center, one of PCOM's Healthcare Centers which provide treatment to the medically underserved in urban areas of Philadelphia.

PCOM Georgia Focus

The primary focus of PCOM Georgia is to recruit and educate students from Georgia and the surrounding states. PCOM Georgia seeks to retain graduate osteopathic medicine physicians, pharmacists, physical therapists, biomedical scientists, medical laboratory scientists, and other healthcare professionals in the Southeast to serve the health needs of the region and to advance the healthcare professions. PCOM Georgia encourages graduates to serve where the need is greatest - inner cities and rural areas with severe physician shortages.

PCOM Georgia Facilities

PCOM Georgia is a campus designed with student learning, cutting- edge instructional technology and social interaction at the forefront. PCOM –GA occupies 23 acres in the northern Atlanta suburb of Suwanee, which has been featured on Kiplinger and Money magazines’ best cities lists.

The campus facility is uniquely and conveniently housed in a modern 172,500- square foot building. Its design includes two architectural main focal points that take advantage of natural light through the use of skylights and partitions. In 2011 PCOM acquired an adjacent building at 2601 Northlake Drive, and this 22,000 square foot facility now houses academic support staff and the Physician Assistant Program.
In addition to large and small classrooms, conference areas and study spaces, Georgia Campus instructional space includes a large anatomy laboratory, the osteopathic manipulative medicine teaching laboratory and the clinical learning and assessment center. The facility also houses biomedical science and pharmacy research and multi-use laboratories, three pharmacy practice labs and an osteopathic manipulative patient care unit.

Open circulation areas facilitate social interaction and ease of access to student services, learning resources and instructional spaces. Student life services also include a central dining area, student lounge, game room and fitness facility. A central feature of the PCOM- GA campus is the Information Commons, where students have access to both print and electronic media.

PCOM-Georgia's facility offers state-of-the-art technology to enhance learning experiences for students. The campus emphasizes substantial use of computer technology that includes a wireless network, digital video and distance learning capability, digital medical and pharmaceutical libraries, and many databases for research and review.

PCOM South Georgia Focus

The additional location of PCOM South Georgia is dedicated to educating osteopathic medical students and biomedical sciences graduate students in serving the healthcare needs of the people in Georgia and the Southeast. The College provides a program of medical study guided by osteopathic medical tradition, concept and practice. Graduates are encouraged to remain in the Southeast and practice among underserved populations where they will have the most impact.

PCOM South Georgia Facilities

The 75,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility includes classrooms, an anatomy lab, an Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) lab, a simulation center, small group study rooms, a library, information commons and a café.

The Library's mission is to be an essential partner and engage in the intellectual life of the College.  The Library is committed to information technologies and learning outcomes that enhance study, teaching, and research. The Library provides access to a wide range of licensed information resources and assists users in acquiring the skills necessary to use these resources effectively.

The PCOM Digital Library is an online collection of databases, mobile apps, e-books, full-text journals, videos, and subject guides. The Library has invested in powerful discovery tools to facilitate access to digital resources and they are accessible 24/7 to PCOM faculty, students, and staff worldwide.

Philadelphia Campus

The OJ Snyder Memorial Library is located on the first and second floors of Hassman Academic Center. It houses computers to support use of the PCOM Digital Library, print collections, a reading room, group study rooms, printers for color printing and scanning, and study space.

Georgia Campus

The Information Commons houses computers to support the use of the PCOM Digital Library, print collections, computers, group study rooms that can be reserved, printers for color printing and scanning, and study space. There are an assortment of anatomical models available, including skeletons, muscle figures, and organs.

South Georgia Campus

The Information Commons houses print collections, study space and a self-checkout station for students to borrow items 24/7.  There are an assortment of anatomical models available, including skeletons, muscle figures, and organs.

Collections

The print collections are comprised of textbooks, reference, leisure reading, and other items that circulate. Circulation desks also have equipment (chargers, headphones, laptops, etc) available for borrowing.

OneSearch+ is a powerful discovery tool to the PCOM Digital Library; it simultaneously searches multiple databases (many of which contain videos, images and clinical simulations), books, full-text e-journal collections, and more. Many online resources contain mobile applications downloadable to smartphones. Embedded within PCOM’s licensed collections are links to full-text resources and the interlibrary-loan gateway.

The Digital Commons@PCOM is an institutional repository that provides open access to faculty and student research, dissertations, theses and papers, and College historical collections.

Services

The library team provides outreach and instruction, reference, access, materials acquisition and processing, archives and research, and interlibrary loan services. Liaison Librarians collaborate with faculty to create curriculum focused subject guides and facilitate and maximize the use of e-resources. Liaison librarians are embedded in the curriculum with faculty to ensure that integration of information literacy and appropriate electronic resources are integrated into teaching programs.

Staffing

Get answers, information, support, and training from our professional library staff via chat or e-mail.  Our circulation desks are open 8am-10pm on weekdays, and 10am-6pm on weekends.  The library space on all three campuses is available 24/7 for quiet study.

Consortia Memberships

Consortia provide a means for libraries to manage licensed resources more efficiently and for their staffs to have access to support and educational opportunities that enhances skills. PCOM is a member of the following:

TriState College Libraries Cooperative (TCLC): Pennsylvania faculty and students may borrow items from TCLC libraries by presenting a letter of introduction authorized by a PCOM librarian.

Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc. (PALCI): A web gateway, which allows simultaneous searching of academic library catalogs in Pennsylvania. PCOM library users can directly initiate requests for most items found in PALCI via the EZBorrow program.  Pennsylvania faculty and students may borrow items from PALCI libraries by presenting a Reciprocal On-Site Borrowing Authorization Form signed by a PCOM librarian.

National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM): PCOM Library is a member of DOCLINE, the National Library of Medicine’s interlibrary loan system.

NorthEast Research Libraries (NERL): PCOM Library maintains institutional licensing arrangements with NERL for online resources.

Lyraris: PCOM Library maintains institutional licensing arrangements with Lyrasis for online resources.

Contact Us

You can contact the library by emailing library@pcom.edu or by calling 215-871-6470 (PA), 678-225-7543 (GA), or 229-668-3142 (SGA).