I've long been a proponent of having a medical school fully part of Tech and the wheels are turning to do just that.
https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2017/11/bov-nov17-wrapup.html
During its quarterly meeting held in Blacksburg today, the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors took another significant step in the acquisition of the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.
That important next step was the approval of a resolution to begin the process necessary to acquire and integrate the school as the ninth college at Virginia Tech, effective July 1, 2018.
Last year, the board affirmed its intent to acquire and integrate the school. Today's resolution paves the way for the university to notify and seek approval from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, and other accrediting or regulatory bodies that will fully accredit the medical school.
This will be Big for research and access.
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Clap clap clap clap clap
Soon we will have full fledged VT doctors to take a look at that
Damnit
This must have been in the works for a while.... Note that the Cassell court no longer has Virginia Tech Carilion as the sponsor, and just Carilion.
Makes sense if they knew that VTC was about to be bought/absorbed into the University.
wait but it does say Carilion Clinic in this pic
Correct. Carilion Clinic currently owns Virginia Tech Carilion, which was the sponsor of the court last year.
But this year, they are now just going with the parent company of Carilion Clinic instead of VTC, which leads me to believe they knew this acquisition was coming a while back, and made plans to keep the court sponsorship good for the future.
Ah makes sense now
AAU bound.
How quickly could this happen? We are already a large research institution, and the Carilion Medical School is not brand new either. All their website says is that research should exceed a number of current members to possibly receive an invite. Also, I thought that all member schools also had Law Schools as well.
We might be doomed then. I think there is little to no interest in Tech opening a law school. Law School =/= blue collar mentality.
Patent law sure loves engineers
most blue collar jobs involve some kind of Union... and those Unions need lawyers
Lol
There is definitely interest in a Tech law school, especially from those of us who went to Tech and did Legal Studies in undergrad. Also, going to college for four years is, by definition, the antithesis of "blue collar." Doesn't mean you can't bring a hard working drive and spirit of service to white collar professions.
No, a lot of AAU schools don't have law schools, GT for example.
Yeah, but at Georgia Tech, they can do that.
Very Niiiiiicccceee!!!!!
Will it still be a DO degree or MD?
You're confusing the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine with the newly opened Virginia Tech Carillon School of Medicine.
Ooops, thanks for the clarification
Although we could always go MSU route and have both DO and MD school.
MSU also absorbed the Detroit School of Law and made it MSU Law
The only tangible difference between the two is that MDs can't do OMM. Having both is asinine.
DO schools have geared themselves to community, rural and underserved communities in last 10 or so years.
Oh I know. Girlfriend is in her third year, doing rotations in Danville. A lot of that gearing is due to people thinking that DOs are inferior to MDs, so DO programs have leaned into it a bit and focus on places where the people are just glad to have any kind of medical help. In the next five years, their boards and residency programs will have merged, and they'll all just be "Doctor."
I disagree. I don't think they will merge at all. Too many states and MD schools don't want to.
That was not an opinion. It is a fact. Merger is happening, ball is already rolling, and will be complete by July 2020.
And of course allopathic schools don't want to. It'll help to end the stigma against DOs and the myth that MDs are "better." DOs are qualified to do anything an MD can do, while the opposite is not true.
Yes, I know my wife is a DO. They are only merging residency program governing. They are not merging the medical schools or training in the separate schools.
I only mentioned boards and residency. Merging schools is nonsensical, which was kinda my point.
As far as all the information she has gotten COMLEX and USMLE and boards will still be separate if the physician wants. My wife for example was in an already mixed residency program and took internal medicine boards after and then gastroenterologist boards after fellowship. So boards are already merged so to speak. But if a DO still wants to focus on osteopathic medicine in a DO residency and take those boards only they still will be able to.
nm.
Integrating
integrate the future
Neat. Now we need to get cracking on a full time MBA program on campus and a law school.
FTFY
We had one until recently
This is awesome. I've got a daughter talking about Johns Hopkins with a father with a budget more in line with VT. I'm doing everything I can to keep her from ruining her
lifecareerreputation at UT since it's in state but this may truly be my opportunity to live vicariously through my child. Time to go to fire up the hype train.If she gets accepted into Hopkins you better let her go there.
You are obviously correct and I would be beyond proud but I bleed M&O and I just want at least one of my children to be a Hokie. May be selfish but I don't think it's unreasonable. Right? Surely I'm right? Someone? Anyone?
I'm right there with you I need one of my four to go to Tech.
you truly are right there with me HF. A leg for fatherhood and upping your odds with four.