<p>This is just breaking on the Dallas Morning News web site which is a pay site so I can’t access all of it but here’s what I could get:</p>
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<p>Can only guess the rest but it appears that this one is happening quickly.</p>
<p>Well, without being able to see the whole article, it’s difficult to comment on what they’re talking about, but there are no plans for a “new medical school” in Dallas, as the first line of the article states.</p>
<p>[LCME:</a> Overview: Accreditation and the LCME](<a href=“http://www.lcme.org/newschoolprocess.htm]LCME:”>http://www.lcme.org/newschoolprocess.htm)
This is the definitive list of developing and accredited medical schools (MD schools at least, but I looked and didn’t see a developing DO school in Dallas either), and there is no new school planned for Dallas, even in the earliest stages.</p>
<p>What it sounds like is that TAMU SOM is planning on a collaboration with Baylor to perhaps open new clinical sites in Dalls - who knows. But it’s definitely not a new school.</p>
<p>I have a hard copy of the paper now.</p>
<p>Third and fourth year students will come to Dallas for their clinical years. First and second year students will still be in either Bryan-College Station or Temple. </p>
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<p>Well that makes sense. Still very misleading of the paper to claim that a “second medical school” was coming to the city. Also, Baylor already has a medical school - how is Baylor’s hospital not already a teaching hospital? 
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<p>Again, it makes it sound like it’s a new school that can be applied to separately, but that’s just not the case. It sounds like it’s an option for students who apply to Texas A&M. VCU has a similar setup, where students all do their first two years in Richmond, but can choose to either stay in Richmond for the clinical years, or go to VCU’s Inova Fairfax site in northern Virginia. But it’s certainly not a separate school that you apply to. That article is very confusing, and I haven’t been able to find a second one to back it up.</p>
<p>Icarus…don’t even try to understand the convoluted history of Baylor University, the Baylor Hospital System, and Baylor Medical School. The easiest way to view them for the purposes of this discussion is as completely separate entities sharing nothing but a name. (Which is not correct, but like I said …it’s complicated. ;))</p>
<p>So is this a situation where a SOM will have a regional campus for 3Y and 4Y students?</p>
<p>^ Sounds like it - as I mentioned, its not without precedent</p>
<p>Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems like it would only be meaningful to call it a second school if it meant that more students would be accepted. If it’s the same number of students with just another venue to use, then that’s fine, but not like getting a second med school or enlarging an existing one.</p>
<p>Will more med students be accepted?</p>
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<p>Man, I wouldn’t even call that a “second” med school - basically all med schools are increasing their class sizes and are having to find more clinical sites to compensate. </p>
<p>Found another few articles about this:
[Baylor</a>, A&M planning medical school in Dallas - Dallas Business Journal](<a href=“http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2011/09/06/baylor-am-planning-medical-school.html]Baylor”>http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2011/09/06/baylor-am-planning-medical-school.html)
[News</a> Radio 1420 Lubbock, Texas](<a href=“http://newsradio1420.com/newsradio/newsMaker.asp?storyID=26007]News”>http://newsradio1420.com/newsradio/newsMaker.asp?storyID=26007)</p>
<p>There are a few variations - they all spread the misinformation that this is a “second” or “new” medical school. A few make it slightly more clear that one existing med school is simply sending med students to a new clinical site - not exactly newsworthy.</p>
<p>old news. guess they just didnt make it official yet. they wont be increasing their class size because of this. they did increase their class size last year because of a unanticipated situation </p>
<p>btw, baylor name is really confusing. baylor college of dentistry is part of A&M. Baylor University in waco is by itself. Baylor college of medicine is its own things too.</p>
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<p>Really? Hmm, interesting. Didn’t know things were so messed up in Texas ;)</p>
<p>At one point in time…back when dinosaurs roamed the earth…they were all (the hospital system that is in play here, the med school, the dental school, and the university) parts of the same entity. Over time, each entity separated from the mother ship and formed (and ended) alliances and collaborations on their own. Sometimes the reasons were publicly couched by faculty and staff as “religious”, but in reality were more rooted in money and autonomy/self-determination. At this time, and AFAIK, the med school and the university are the two most closely connected (through their boards).</p>