A show of local support will be necessary for that to happen, which is why a collection of Joplin-area elite met at the university Tuesday to hear about the proposal:
Officials agreed that the biggest challenges to the project are obtaining approval from the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education, creating an infrastructure of regional hospitals where students could do clinical rotations, and finding enough space on the MSSU campus for the program.
The first step in having the program up and running by the target date of fall 2011 is for the state board to approve the partnership. MSSU President Bruce Speck said via a prerecorded presentation that he has broached the issue with the board, and KCUMB is submitting the paperwork to have the program approved. Letters of community support like the ones handed out during the meeting Tuesday will be submitted along with that application.
So where in heck was Speck?
ReplyDeleteWhere does the three and a half million that MSSU officials say they have found come from? Show me the money, Bruce.
If Douglas works fulltime for Freeman Hospital how come he chairs a board committee to study the medical school issue?
We need answers to these questions, Roger.
Roger,
ReplyDeleteFreeman Hospital's new Medical School represents the best of "bait and switch". No increases in taxes and no taxpayers money now! Just wait and hold on to your wallet.
Roger's watching
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