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How much does it cost to get a new medical school up an running? I'm guessing at least three maybe four hundred million dollars?? Does anyone have a more educated guesstimate?
Why? Trying to see how big of a loan you can get from the bank to start your own?How much does it cost to get a new medical school up an running? I'm guessing at least three maybe four hundred million dollars?? Does anyone have a more educated guesstimate?
How much does it cost to get a new medical school up an running? I'm guessing at least three maybe four hundred million dollars?? Does anyone have a more educated guesstimate?
Why? Trying to see how big of a loan you can get from the bank to start your own?
Rocky Mountain Vista (or something like that) in Denver, CO. DO school opening 2008.
Bump: yet another MD program coming down the pipe (Commonwealth/Scranton)
I love the reasoning they give for this. Its hilarious how all these schools come online and think they are going to get a big chunk of NIH dollars for research. I'd bet money straight up that these schools will have less than 1 million dollars in NIH grants 10 years from start-up. What a bunch of fools
Just like the other new schools, Commonwealth/Scranton is gonig to screw med students by forcing them rotate at outside hospitals. Their tiny little hospital they have now wont even touch the # of clinical spots they need.
I love how the dean of the new school says they'll figure out the clinical training spots later in 2011. Thats nice, wait till your first class is on the cusp of 3rd year before you figure out where to put these guys for clinical training. I can already see whats going to happen, they are going to get farmed out of state. What a joke.
How much does it cost to get a new medical school up an running? I'm guessing at least three maybe four hundred million dollars?? Does anyone have a more educated guesstimate?
Go Eugene!!!
Sigh, now I'm really homesick...
I do think we have a few good schools to select from, but an extra state school would benice.UNC Charlotte is indeed talking about opening a med school... Personally I think we have a good range of schools as it is...
For those wondering about the joint UCR/UCLA program we currently have:
The first two (science) years are done at UCR
The second two (clinical) years are done at UCLA
So we already have "half" a medical school, so to speak. I'm looking forward to it-- nice to see my soon to be alma mater growing.
How exactly do you apply to that?
Different than just applying to Geffen?
I think OHSU doesn't have the money to expand to Eugene any time soon. On the other hand, Western Univ, the DO school in Pomona, is thinking of building a school in Lebanon, OR, with construction to begin in 2010. You would really have to like the idea of rural medicine to find that appealing.
Lebanon? You have got to be kidding. I used to go on phlebotomy trips to the nursing homes out there. Yikes. I remember where the Dairy Queen is though...
Corvallis isn't too far from there though in Hwy 20, at least a little closer to civilization. One of my favorite nurseries (plants) is on Hwy 20 between Corvallis and Albany (Garland's, excellent place).
I'd be hard pressed to attend a Western U. school though. Just not the rep I want.
L.
No one should count on much of anything from OHSU in Eugene for a while. I'm pretty sure those plans got scrapped when they lost that lawsuit after the state removed OHSU's cap on malpractice damages.
As for UW-Spokane, don't count on that either. The community has a desire to have a school there, and it'd be great, but until UW decides that doctors on the east side of the state are actually smart enough to direct a school it won't happen.
Sorry to rain on any Northwesterner's parade, but most likely you'll still need to look elsewhere. (Come out to St. Louis, no mountains, but school's great!)
Anyone know if the rumors are true about University of Texas (the only UT) opening up a medical school? I heard recently that it was in the works.
this thread is among the scariest out there on SDN...now we can add yet another ever more powerful element to push down physician salaries on top of encroaching midlevels, sky rocketing malpractice insurance, HMO and medicare cuts, and ever increasing debt repayments. Doesn't the future of medicine in this country look so bright!
Keep the residency slots the SAME, and let unmatched MD's work as PA's, earning a good wage, all the while building their CVs towards getting a residency spot.
I was recently told that the reason there are alot of new schools opening up is that there are roughly 6000 fmgs that come here for residency every year, This will just push them out of the match and prevent Doctor shortage in other countries. If this is true then most people on this forum should be able to avoid the trouble for spots when this comes to a head right?
It's crazy how many of these are DO schools. I bet that with an increase in US MD applicants to residency programs will really screw over the qualified DO applicants trying to get a spot in allopathic residency (same with FMGs). They will probably be left to fight over the "scraps."
It sucks, but they only have themselves to blame. The AOA is letting all these brand new DO schools pop up willy-nilly around the country with no quality control. IMO, it is cheapening what used to be a separate-but-equal profession.
The PAs have already blocked this from happening. Its ironic, considering they keep screaming that they are just as good as doctors and should be allowed to join a bridge program and become MDs.
Of course we see that they are full of hypocrisy just like the other midlevel groups.
Some of the PAs have the audacity to claim that a newly graduated PA student is actually SUPERIOR to a newly graduated MD because "MDs arent trained to work under supervision"
What a joke.
UTMB has affiliated with Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, which changed its name to University Medical Center at Brackenridge. "Brack", as it refered to is a newer facility with a brand new Children's hospital attached. The hospital has had a residency program for many years affiliated with UT-Austin (Nursing and Pharmacy) and a local foundation that paid for student residency education, administration costs, and professor salaries.
The talking is that over the next ten years UTMB will move most of their residency to Austin Brackenridge from Galveston.
UTMB-Austin:
http://www.seton.net/medical_services_and_programs/graduate_medical_education/
And I hate that Georgia, Florida, and Arizona won't open the public schools up to out-of-state!!!