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LJD230

Last login: Friday, April 19, 2013

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KU outlines significant cuts if Legislature cuts higher education funding

For the grossly uninformed:

http://salina.kumc.edu/

there is a difference between a residency program and undergraduate medical education.

The medical school program should never have been started.

ALL basic science courses should be completed in Kansas City. If the two hospitals in Wichita which host KU students were to sign a MAJOR academic affiliation agreement with KU, it would then be possible to have but one administrator in Wichita to oversee the affiliation contract and a physician to coordinate the clerkship experience.

Neither the Wichita campus nor the Salina campus do squat to embellish KU Med's less than sterling academic reputation.

April 19, 2013 at 9:43 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Health care providers oppose Republican resolution to not expand Medicaid

Hospital are the greediest institutions in America. See the latest issue of Time Magazine. Steven Brill should win a Pulitzer for this story!

http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20...

February 22, 2013 at 9:34 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Health care providers oppose Republican resolution to not expand Medicaid

From today's New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/us/...

Some Republican governors have seen the light!

February 22, 2013 at 7:19 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Legislator backs off bill aimed at keeping health departments from seeking accreditation

I can't think of a better home for the facility on Plum Island than Kansas. Lets see how well the local health departments will be able to handle catastrophes arising from the relocation of these research labs.

February 18, 2013 at 5:13 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Bill filed to require establishment of adult stem cell center at KU Med

The medical school will always remain in the ranks of the mediocre because the idea of cutting edge research and translational medicine has not taken hold. No doubt the Neanderthal politics of Kansas has had a stifling effect on these two very import efforts.

If it really wants to improve it's reputation and status the school should divest itself of the programs in Wichita and Salina and concentrate on the education and training of physician/clinical scientists in Kansas City.

In other words leave the training of country doctors to the programs in Wichita and Salina.
The medical school in Kansas City should be a bee hive of research related activity.

February 14, 2013 at 12:47 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

New KU Med Center leader Doug Girod emphasizing connections in raising profile of campus

There are many state funded medical schools infinitely better than KU. They have a high national reputation, attract a geographic student body and excel in the education and training of physician scientists. Examples: Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, California, Washington, Virginia, Ohio State and the list goes on.

If KU wants to achieve a greater reputation it will occur only through it's research initiatives and the education of residents and fellows from broad and diverse geographic locations. And if that means some sort of partnership with hospitals on the other side of the border, sobeit.

February 13, 2013 at 4:25 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

New KU Med Center leader Doug Girod emphasizing connections in raising profile of campus

Wanting KU to be recognized among the top 25 medical schools in the country is wishful thinking. A similar hope for the Lawrence campus was proffered several years ago by the previous KU chancellor. We all know how that worked out.

Until the medical school refocuses it's mission to one of research and the education of physician scientists rather than training country doctors it will remain in the mediocre ranks of American medical schools.

Every hospital in which a KU medical student or resident trains should be a major academic affiliate of the medical school. It is essential that the med school exert oversight of medical education occurring in other than KU Hospital.

A great medical school has a diverse student body and attracts a geographically diverse group of applicants for residency positions. Students and residents completing their education at KU should be encouraged to get off the plantation and seek further post graduate education at the elite hospitals and schools on the left and right coast. A med school will not attain national stature if it doesn't extend it's wings and reputation through the products it creates.

Both KU Hospital and the medical school need to seek more aggressively research dollars that will support fellowships in the various clinical disciplines. And both entities need to put skin in the game with dollars to support the effort.

A good hospital does not a good medical school make. Patient care is not the most important mission of a great medical school. This is a dirty but true little secret. Great medical schools are defined by excellence in teaching and research. Achieve excellence in the first two priorities and good patient care will follow as day from night.

February 12, 2013 at 10:46 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )