Any current RVU-COM students want to comment on the last response in this?
http://blogs.do-online.org/aoapresident.php?itemid=2994#nucleus_cf
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Hello. I'm a medical student at RVUCOM and I truly hope that my post is not deleted for shedding light on the truth.
We students and our educations are in jeopardy. Yife Tien terminated the local physician leadership that made up the RVU Board of Trustees for the sole purpose of "getting at" Dr. Ronnie B. Martin last week. Tien's actions were based on trumped-up accusations blown out of proportion and threats of legal proceedings to tarnish this good man's (Dr. Ronnie Martin's) reputation. Dr. Martin was forced to resign or face the consequences of one man and his lawyer.
Yife Tien proceeded in this direction after there were multiple failed faculty votes and a Board of Trustees vote - neither of which garnered the smallest interest against Dr. Martin(overwhelmingly in favor of Dr. Ronnie Martin to continue in his role for the time being). This is how a shady corporation is run - not a medical school.
Should Yife Tien be able to get rid of the regional physicians on the board selected to guide our school and because they didn't vote to his liking? Or because a few new-hire professors in the Biomedical Sciences Department working for Dean Ronnie Martin wanted CONTROL and to "do it their own way"?
NO.
The physician leadership here in Colorado have been treated in a very disrespectful manner - including Dr. Ronnie Martin. Yife Tien and his lawyer, Mr. Black, have embarrassed us in this region. The physicians here who were once excited and willing to help teach us have been wronged and they've had to sit back and watch their own physician leaders and colleagues stepped on and tossed aside. They've seen Mr Tien and his chronies (Mr. Black and others) treat highly-esteemed physician LEADERS in this region like yesterday's garbage.
Yife Tien and his lawyer have shown their true colors and we as students will inevitably suffer as a result.
We gave Mr. Tien a chance. He failed us all.
As a matter of fact, Yife Tien, Mr. Black, and Yife Tien's wife are now sitting where respected community physicians were directing the creation of our clinical rotation sites and residencies only days ago. They are not suited to look out for our best interests - which is why we now need the AOA to intervene.
We are asking for the FULL involvement of the AOA/COCA and we DO HAVE A MAJORITY vote comprised of nearly 100 student signatures with many more to follow in the coming days. Will the AOA - or Yife Tien try to "fire" us as well for making the truth known? Or will we simply be silenced to suffer in the background without the support of our local physicians or any type of TRUE LOCAL physician leadership guiding and protecting student interests? I should hope that the the AOA/COCA cares about us - the students, Dr. DiMarco.
We the students of RVU, with the support of our fellow medical students and our physician teachers across this nation are watching the AOA reaction to Yife Tien's reprehensible moves very closely. The students have been wronged and are being influenced NOT to speak out at our medical school. We've the support of our local physicians and physicians/med students nationwide. Nothing but immediate action by the AOA will suffice under these circumstances.
We've done our part as medical students - we've reached out to you, the AOA and COCA, for help and protection from a new structure that IS NOT in our best interests - or that of Osteopathic Medicine.
We are very organized, Dr. DiMArco, and we will not remain silent as the new "corporate structure" misleads the AOA with false excuses as to what's really transpired.
This is OUR community - where we hope to one day serve as physicians. We will not sit down. Our fight is now based on principle, not fear.
Please join us - defend us. We need to be rescued.
Concerned RVU Student
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Concerned RVU Student at Sunday, May 24, 2009 19:08:57"
over 100 signatures asking to be "saved" by the AOA??
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