All DCOM students will be assigned to a ‘house’ when they matriculate to LMU-DCOM. The purpose of the house system is to help students make social connections and engage with faculty and staff in a smaller-scale setting. Every house has faculty mentors and OMS-II leaders. The OMS-II leaders coordinate with faculty mentors and the Office of Student Affairs and the Department of Student Life to provide programming and social events for their house to facilitate comradery within the house and allow students a break from the daily rigor of medical school. Students will have the ability to review and request faculty mentors based on shared interests (research, extracurricular, clinical, or academic specialty). Students are encouraged to engage with their selected mentor as well as other faculty members for advice and mentorship.