Just thought I would post this: http://www.dailytexanonline.com/new...Million.Medical.School.On.Border-535126.shtml
Nine schools!!!! Move to Texas!!
Nine schools!!!! Move to Texas!!
Texas Medical Schools
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If Tech already has a split campus, using El Paso for some rotations, then where will they go after this school is built? How do you think they will make certain that the doctors they train will stay in west Texas?
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Tech would send their students to Lubbock, Odessa and Amarillo (which they already do). I'm from El Paso and when I interviewed at Tech (El Paso campus), the profs I talked to said that Tech would probably completely remove itself from El Paso, thus allowing UT EL Paso Med school (?) to be just another independent program. I think the focus on keeping students there will be made by getting tons of local applicants (recruitment, pre-college, college programs) and thus family, hometown loyalty would aid in keeping doctors there. Further, the fact that you have a medical school dramatically increases the # of health care providers in the city. I'll be attending Southwestern next year, but will hopefully be part of the Border Health program whenever I finish med school/residency, blah blah.
Another classmate!!! make sure you stop by the UTSW class of 2008 thread. 
