Baylor College of Medicine and Memorial Hospital Split

[tripe23]

Hey guys,

I have heard that Baylor College of Medicine and Memorial Hospital in Houston are no longer affiliated. Instead Cornell is now affiliated with the hospital. Cornell 3rd and 4th years will send their students to Houston. Is this true? Any more information out there?

If it is true, what do you think this will do to both medical schools. Do you think Baylor's ranking will drop next year due to this?

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[generic]

*it's Methodist Hospital, Memorial is another big hospital but not the one that Baylor had close ties to

yeah it's all true...sadly...I live in Houston and I'm applying to Baylor. I asked some friends of mine who are BCM students if this were affecting their education and they said almost not at all. Baylor has plenty of other affiliations with other hospitals in Houston's huge med center, so there are still plenty of places to rotate through.

However, the thing that concerns me the most is the possible loss of faculty. Methodist is trying hard to lure Baylor's department chairs and such away from the school. Baylor naturally wants to keep them but the doctors have to decide whether they should stay with their decades-old practices at Methodist or stay with the school and face slightly less certain futures. I know that Baylor could always find other faculty if some stay at Methodist, but still it would probably throw things out of whack for a few years at least...

I can't see how being affiliated with a hospital in houston will help Cornell way up in NY much...but that's what they're saying. Time will tell?

 

[tripe23]

Oh sorry, yea I meant Methodist. I also heard that Baylor is planning to build its own clinic (perhaps hospital).

 

[EvoDevo]

I think there was a really nice thread on this a couple of weeks ago here in Pre-Allo.

Anyone feeling motivated to look it up? 😀

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[MacGyver]

I seriously doubt that Cornell is going to send a lot of their students to Methodist in Houston. They might offer it to a few of them, but this wont be a systematic core rotation.

Basically, Cornell and Methodist hooked up for financial reasons. The connection between them is tenuous at best.

 

[BDavis]

If it is true, what do you think this will do to both medical schools. Do you think Baylor's ranking will drop next year due to this?[/QUOTE]

Some faculty has switched to Methodist (i.e. Path Department chair) and some have stayed with Baylor (i.e. Surgery Department chair). However many have not committed either way and still retain both affiliations. In terms of teaching, the majority of our learning experience is at Ben Taub (county hospital), Texas Children's Hospital and the Houston VA. In fact these three hospitals are where we get the most "hands on training". The two private hospitals include St. Luke's and Methodist Hospital (the hospital that is currently embroiled in a battle with Baylor). In terms of research funding, most if not all the basic science researchers are linked to Baylor so their NIH funding is going to stay (which contributes to the rankings). The major SPORE grants for cancer funding, the NIH grants for genome sequencing are also at Baylor. I do not know how much clinical research from Methodist contributes to the total NIH funding for our school. I would suspect that the U.S. News ranking will not change very much unless the residency assessment or peer evaluation score changes. I think the MCAT/GPA stats (another component of the ranking) from the latest entering class (which had known about the Baylor/Methodist controversy) was pretty much the same as in previous years.