Leaders of a regional doctor-training program based at the University of Washington have broken weeks of silence with a letter saying they are “deeply concerned” about a private, for-profit osteopathic medical school proposed in Montana.
The osteopathic students would be in “direct competition” with WWAMI students, wrote Dr. Paul Ramsey, CEO of the UW School of Medicine in Seattle, and two colleagues in a letter sent Friday to faculty, alumni and friends of the WWAMI program
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Montana “cannot accommodate” the 300 third- and fourth-year students from the new school who would need clinical training, the letter said.
Ramsey’s letter called “unrealistic” the idea that the new school could create hundreds of new residencies, which are required to give medical school graduates the years of training they need before they can practice.
And it said the majority of osteopathic students would likely come from outside Montana and leave to practice outside Montana.
For the past seven years, it said, an average of 54 Montana students have enrolled in “allopathic” or M.D. medical schools and 19 have enrolled in osteopathic or D.O. schools in the United States, for a total of 73 students from Montana. Expanding medical school programs should be done at an “appropriate scale,” the letter said.
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University of Washington CEO fires back against Montana DO school
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