The "bottom feeders" at JOey LanD have their panties in a bunch about the new medical school aqnd why we don't need it. Some how it got started that the school is only a two year medical college - it would be the first & onlt two year medical school in the world if this was true.

All they needed to do was google "the commonwealth medical college" and would have gotten all their answers instead of using Andy & EDith for their info.

Joanne Pilchesky Posts: 784 Date: Apr 17 11:10 AM, 2008 Views: 99

Quote | Reply This is what Andy Sbaraglia said at council Tuesday night. I give alot of credence to what he has to say, he certainly does his homework. When this first came up, I said that the place to put this was over at the University. As this progressed --it's still longer, anything really -- it's a pre-med school, 2 years! And then they go somewhere else. That's it! It's a 2-year school now, and then it goes out somewhere else. It could have placed on the University, but then they wouldn't have had control of the money, and, probably, they control the project. This is a money deal. It has nothing to do, actually, with a Medical School. It's a money deal, spending government money -- your and my money, everybody's money -- with little or no advantage to the City. And, really, a Medical School should have been placed at the University, and then a pre-med should have been there, anyway. You have nothing to do with the School Board, but if you went up there and looked at the playground, there's a million dollars' worth of development on that ground that they sold for $1MM.

First off, the medical college is a four year institution check out their curriculum HERE
It's two years classroom and two years practical.
There's good and bad with being associated with a University and they choose not to - read their reasoning:

The Commonwealth Medical College* is unique in many ways:

• We are independent not part of a university structure. Our goal is to develop our curriculum in a way that lets our students work in teams with other regional colleges and universities health professional students.
• We will be the center of a collaborative medical community, linked via technology and integrated with a variety of practice settings and higher education organizations. technology to link sites
  linked campuses: access to information
• We are the first new allopathic medical school in Pennsylvania since the 1960s.
• We are focused on developing community physicians (both primary care and specialists) for the 21st century those who are skilled in evidence-based medicine, the latest technology and
  Patient-Physician Partnership Communication.
• We were conceived to respond to the regional decrease in physician availability, and to improve the health of community residents. Quality of life and spirit of collaboration

We are proud of our differences and the difference we will make in the lives of our communities.

And finally check out their Mission and Values

I swear the DOlts at JOey LanD could mess uo a one car parade.
Why hasn't their ace researcher NotADumbBlonde figured this out before they make themselves look like ...

Edited to fix the word "make" as it was mispelled :)

-- Edited by IHavehadenoughofhaters at 23:59, 2008-04-17