maybe they realize they've been too lenient and need to tighten up? Nah, who am I kidding
Didn't know about that one.
You forgot about the Walmart medical school in NW Arkansas.
www.nwahomepage.com
Yeah I was only listing the DO ones.You forgot about the Walmart medical school in NW Arkansas.
Alice Walton bringing new medical school to Northwest Arkansas
A new medical school backed by Walmart heiress Alice Walton is scheduled to welcome its first class of students to Northwest Arkansas in 2024.
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are you counting LECOM Erie and LECOM Seton Hill separately?
I've never seen it happen in the DO world. What would happen is that they would take away the accreditation and the students currently at the school will be allowed to continue and graduate in an accredited way, but the school would not be able to recruit a new class. The only way this would get worse would be some extremely gross violations, which i doubt would ever happen. COCA is not in the business of ruining the lives of students
There are thousands of applicants who can make it through med school that don't get in, so I personally don't see how more schools is a bad thing, unless all of these students only want to be surgeons or ophthalmologists
Aren't there something like 2000 residency slots that go unfilled each year?
there's like 10k more residency spots than there are US grads
Nice, we can still open 50 new medical schools. COCA will be delighted.
Although true, not every one of those programs will choose DO over FMG. That’s another discussion though. I don’t think we need to continue opening schools nor put IMGs in a secondary match. We need to stop opening all US med schools and work on redistributing our docs through incentives that are truly impactful. After that a true needs assessment for physician need can be completed.
There's plenty of good people that are still driven into the Caribbean. Personally, I don't have a problem with school expansion as long as it is done at reputable established places with research, rotations and GME. No more of these McLECOM or McTouro campuses. I do think it's time for the US to prioritize its graduates and make sure IMGs are in a separate after-match
We disagree on that last part and that’s fine. Having the better applicant regardless of citizenship is good for American citizens. We already have the advantage. If people are still losing out to FMGs then it’s either something wrong with the American applicant or the accomplishments of the FMG (most of the time. Nothing is 100% of the time).
any time i see complaints that fmg's are taking away jobs from us grads i laugh so much. deyy tuk ur jebs is such a stupid idea, if you're a US grad and can't match into IM/FM/Peds that's on you
There are plenty of FMG PDs out there that will take an FMG applicant over a DO
That's a non sequitur
COCA Fee Schedules were up adjusted by 7% in 2022. Schools on Heightened Monitoring pay $16,050 more than schools who are on full accreditation in annual COCA dues/fees. There is more work that goes into obtaining updates and reports, monitoring of schools outside of full accreditation, etc. so it is hard to say how much of that is "profit" but there is an increased cost to schools placed on Heightened Monitoring, etc.
I never knew that! Many thanks for sharing. It's nice to know this!
