D'Youville plans new $100 million academic building
If approved, construction would begin in May 2023 and finish by January 2025, involving more than 300 construction jobs.buffalonews.com
www.dyu.edu
Wait, could you please expand! This sounds like good news for some of us!
Yup. What really worries me is that their is a finite supply of students who can handle medical school, and as such, we are likely to see an increase in attrition rates.
Attrition rates and board failure rates already increasing.
Already mentioned Alice Walton School of Osteopathic Medicine (AWSOM).
The University of the Incarnate Word has been in San Antonio since the 1880s, so it isn’t like the school came out of nowhere.
Aren't US MD schools proliferating at a similar or even higher rate? I'm hearing of sub 500 MCATs getting admitted to US MD schools.
Yes, they are. They may run into the same problem, although most MD schools seat far fewer than DO schools.
Also as previously stated, my favorite is still the Antonin S. Scalia School of Law at George Mason University (ASSSOL).
Makes sense!
Fine for DO, maybe their state MD school if they live in a lucky state.
Good. There’s 65 DO schools if you count branch campuses and most of them have class sizes 50-100% bigger than a typical MD school.
Wow. That is double the schools when I applied
Facts. OCOM is on track to be pre-accredited in August. Possibly another 3 DO schools opening next year.
osteopathic.org
and this.Facts. OCOM is on track to be pre-accredited in August. Possibly another 3 DO schools opening next year.
COCA Meetings
COCA reviews site visit reports, change requests and other items pertaining to the accreditation of osteopathic medical schools during its meetings.
Perhaps it is "we will keep growing until geographic health disparities cease." 😉
Or AACOM gets taken over by Elon Musk. Which I guess is the same thing.
Won't they just absorb the residency spots that are going to IMGs anyways?
That has been the argument for expansion the entire time. Answer? Maybe. Also many of those spots are not in desirable locations and many end up in not first choice specialties. A job is a job but also you would like to not be forced into a specialty.
You can't get to residency if you fail out at a medical school. This is what I'm worried about
Yeah it’s stupid and everyone with DO after their name should be pissed because it’s hard to have any pride in a degree that’s being dragged through the mud by the very societies that are supposed to be ensuring quality.
I wouldn’t go that far lol. I’m not pissed. It’s ridiculous and should be curtailed but I think all med school expansion including MD should stop as well
Wouldn’t just mid level creep eat into the market if not enough physicians are around?
Again you’re falling for the political fallacy. There is not true shortage. It’s a misallocation of resources (physicians). There are enough physicians just not in the right places. Go ask the pediatricians in San Francisco willing to take a 165k/ year job. Midlevels aren’t filling those gaps either because they would also rather live in the Bay Area than the rural kentucky.
Kinda wonder how politicians are going to fix the situation then. That is then coupled with the rise of artificial intelligence and the falling trust in healthcare in general. Physicians will either have to adapt to changing tastes or fall to more aggressive entities in the states.
Just saying, Becoming a Student Doctor introduces the systems competency piece for prehealth students. Know that the system you work with now will not be the same in 10 years.
It certainly is not the same when I started 10 years ago
Fewer people are applying to med school (and college) nationwide due to a decline in the student population pool.
