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Well the hits just keep on coming..... DO schools popping up everywhere like Jack in the Boxes.

DO - LECOM, Greenburg PA, Seton Hill Univ (http://www.osteopathic.org/index.cfm?PageID=acc_predoc)

DO - MSUCOM, Clinton Township MI, Macomb College (http://www.osteopathic.org/index.cfm?PageID=acc_predoc)

How big are these sleepy little towns, anyway? 8k, 10k people? Strip mall medical schools, thats just wonderful. :laugh:
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barto123 said:
so macgyver... what does this exactly mean for all of us now? lower quality medical education? lower quality doctors? lower wages for general practitioners or specialists? if the amount of residencies remains steady, how much of an effect will this have on all of us? and what does it mean for all these new schools, since if they really are only after the money and community improvement and if it is not delivered, will med schools start developing into tiers like law schools? this is all very troubling to me, i hope the powers that be know what they are doing and are looking out for all of us doctors/future doctors. maybe i choose the wrong profession....
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Lower quality education: all these new schools opening up dont have enough rotation sites, and the rotation sites they do have suck ***. Hardly any of them are ward-based and are dominated by crap like "shadowing" some guy in a small clinic where you might see 3 patients a day at most. Furthermore, most of these new schools (especially the DO programs) force you to move away for half or more of the 4 years to do clinical rotations, because htey are in small towns with no hospitals to place their students. Meanwhile, they are charging you 40k per year for this "privilege."

Development of tiers: Med schools will become like law schools, where Harvard/Hopkins are highly prestigious and their grads can do anything they want, whereas grads of podunk osteopathic state college univ will have only rural primary care residencies where they can train. FMGs will be drastically cut, as all the new MD and DO students compete for those rural primary care slots that nobody wants right now. The days of podunk state univ grads getting an occassional dermatology or neurosurgery spot will end.

The one upside to all this is that it will provide more MD/DOs to compete for rural primary care against NPs and PAs.

Everybody always talks about the "baby boomer surge" but that period will only last for about 20-30 years and afterwards the boom will be over and we will have tens of thousands of excess doctors running around with no patients to treat.
 
Flopotomist said:
They are putting a med school in Merced?? and Riverside?? Where did you get that info? Weird.

It seems to me that putting a med school at one of the more established UCs would make more sense (eg Berkeley or UCSC). Who wants to live in Merced?
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I would
 
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CUNY will have a medical school?!
No offense, the quality of the science undergraduate there is just :thumbdown: (their other programs are good though). Don't you need at least decent facilities to open up a medical school. Beside, don't you need teaching hospitals? Are they going to send the students away for their rotations? I don't think NYC has enough hospitals to accommodate another medical school.
 
Anyone know the deal with Commonwealth-Scranton?
 
mrx2 said:
What's going on with Touro NJ? They were supposed to open for Fall 2009 apps.
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I believe they said that they would get final approval in 2009 and would be open for the 2010 admission cycle.
 
Just gotta say I'm impressed Macgyver got banned. Surprised it took so long, but still....
back to topic.
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Commonwealth-Scranton should have their 1st class start Fall of 2009. They supposedly have all their accreditation information in (although it will take until 2013 to become fully accredited) and hopefully will get provisional accreditation. The classes will be held at Lackawanna College in Scranton until the new school is finished being built. From what I've heard, they will give preference to regional applicants because they are all about improving physician care in NEPA. You can get some more info and watch the dean's (Dr. D'Alessandri) interview on WVIA on their website. Also, the dean has a blog where he writes about updates as well. Here is the site:

http://www.thecommonwealthmedical.com/splash.asp
 
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hm i couldn't find anything on the commonwealth scranton site about admissions.
just in general, are these new med schools using amcas?
 
MEMBERS OF THE UCR COMMUNITY

I'm delighted to inform you that at today's meeting in Santa Barbara the
Regents of the University approved the establishment of a school of medicine
at UC Riverside.

The idea of a medical school at UCR has been incubating a long time, at
least 20 years, perhaps longer. Serious planning began nearly five years
ago when Chancellor Cordova appointed a blue ribbon committee chaired by
former UCLA Chancellor and UCR Alumnus Charles Young to advise the campus on
how to undertake such a challenging task. Although much of the tough work
still lies ahead, today's action is a major milestone for the campus and it
could not have been reached without many contributions if time and effort
and good advice from so many members of the campus community.

As announced previously, today is my last day as Acting Chancellor at UC
Riverside. I wish I could speak to each of you individually to tell you how
rewarding it has been for me to have served as your chancellor for this
interim year. UC Riverside will forever hold a special place in my heart
and I thank each of you for what you do too make this such a special place.

Tomorrow, Tim White officially begins as the 8th chancellor of the campus.
Chancellor White is a great choice as the next leader for UCR. I wish him
and all of you every success.

Cordially,

Robert D. Grey
Acting Chancellor
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Just got the e-mail that finalizes it :thumbup:
 
Gavanshir said:
Touro University College of Medicine of New Jersey was not approved by the LCME and has gone back to applicant status! What the buck! That means they have to apply again next year and basically delays first matriculant class by a another year.


http://www.jstandard.com/articles/4472/1/Key-approval-stalls-Touro%92s-new-med-school
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I saw on the LCME website that they had regressed to stage one in the process even though they were at stage two about two months ago. This explains why, thanks for the update.
 
MacGyver said:
Well the hits just keep on coming..... DO schools popping up everywhere like Jack in the Boxes.

DO - LECOM, Greenburg PA, Seton Hill Univ (http://www.osteopathic.org/index.cfm?PageID=acc_predoc)

DO - MSUCOM, Clinton Township MI, Macomb College (http://www.osteopathic.org/index.cfm?PageID=acc_predoc)

How big are these sleepy little towns, anyway? 8k, 10k people? Strip mall medical schools, thats just wonderful. :laugh:
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I know I'm replying to a year old post, but this is hilarious. Macomb county is metro Detroit :laugh:
 
Looks like somebody bumped this old thread up again, though it can't really be updated anymore...
 
fun8stuff said:
MSU-CHM is just moving from Lansing to Grand Rapids. So, you can't really count that has a brand new school that is opening. MSU already has satellite campuses in GR... they have been talking about completely moving to GR for the last couple years, but I am not sure anything has been set in stone.
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actually, MSU-CHM is expanding. not moving. just so everyone knows.
 
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