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http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080116/NEWS/801160405
anyone heard anything more about this.....?
anyone heard anything more about this.....?
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080116/NEWS/801160405
anyone heard anything more about this.....?
I think what they're getting at here is that the number of available seats has been flat - ie schools have traditionally not expanded. Obviously that's changed of late."enrollment at medical schools has been flat". haha, they must be joking.
1. It's a 20 minute drive from Corvallis;Lebanon!? have the people from western ever been there!?
don't get me wrong, i'm sure we need more schools, and i would love to go to school in oregon, but for the sake of anyone who might be subjected to a medical 'education' in Lebanon, i hope it doesn't go much further.
what about another Vet school?
(no offense to anyone in lebanon, but i could think of 10 towns in the pacific northwest better served by and better equipped for a medical school)
1. It's a 20 minute drive from Corvallis;
2. OHSU is CUTTING its class size; and
3. The Pacific Northwest has a tremendous shortage of rural physicians.
I live in a city with a great vet school and its graduates can barely pay their loans off. Why do we need another vet school?
1. It's a 20 minute drive from Corvallis;
2. OHSU is CUTTING its class size; and
3. The Pacific Northwest has a tremendous shortage of rural physicians.
I live in a city with a great vet school and its graduates can barely pay their loans off. Why do we need another vet school?
How big is this hospital they are going to have? 100 beds?
I predict lots of med students being FORCED off site to do their rotations half way around the country.
No thanks
I thought that the major academic medical center was in Portland (90 min drive) from Lebanon. I think that Boise would be a prime site for a new DO school if you wanted to stay with the NW theme. Dense little metro area with tons of rural area surrounding, several hospitals, and no medical school competition within 330 miles.
SoWhat development is on hold and the gym is being outsourced (OHSU people will likely have to pay to use it now). One of the people I talked to said that OHSU was basically living a fairytale that was bound to end soon. I think that is what has happened.
Not that I think this will happen, realistically.
It just so odd because everyone around them saw it. I think there was just a lot of arrogance and groupthink going on at OHSU, and they tuned out any thoughts from anybody on the outside. But it's also true that Oregon has problems with funding everything.
As for DOs in Oregon, yeah, they definitely aren't as well known as they are in other parts of the country. A lot of people there equate osteopathic medicine with naturopathic medicine. But the other hospitals in Portland do have a lot of DO residents for their programs.
Western has some rotation spots already in the Northwest for their Northwest Track program. Hopefully the Yakima school and this potential school in Lebanon will be able to start small and grow. It is a beautiful area and I like that it is affiliated with an already-existing program.
I have emailed them several times to ask where these supposed sites are for the northwest track.....silence.....do they even have any students enrolled in this?
They started the program a few years ago, so they should already have some students in clinicals in it. I was accepted into it for the class of 2010 and talked to some people in the class of 2009 who were in it on my interview.
Oregon will not fund another school. They are currently one of the worst states in regards to the amount of funding they send to medical education, no way they would be willing to add to that...especially considering OHSU is claiming to have a $30 million shortfall.