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Posts Tagged ‘School of Medicine’
October 26th, 2016 - 10:37 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
UW Gets Amazing Gift From Bill and Melinda Gates
May 15th, 2016 - 8:54 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
Is UW Outsourcing Genetics to China?
BGI and UW Medicine to collaborate on precision medicine development One of world’s leading genomics organizations and UW Medicine sign memorandum of understanding to advance biomedical technology UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON HEALTH SCIENCES/UW MEDICINE BGI, one of the world’s largest genomi[...]
March 1st, 2015 - 1:39 pm § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
State Legislature Moves Cougar School of Medicine Forward!~
There are ONLY two reasons to support the WSU idea ..PORK and POLITICS. Despite that, Reuven Carlyle reports that the “House Appropriations Comm voted Friday to allow WSU to begin process of opening a medical school. I voted ‘no’ and here’s why: While I totally support their [...]
Reuven Carlyle: A Thought Filled Analysis of Education in WASTATE
Rethinking Public School Funding: Back To A New Future. The Washington State Constitution crafted in 1889 includes these mighty words in Article IV, section 1: “It is the paramount duty of the state to make ample provision for the education of all children residing within its borders, without [...]
February 10th, 2015 - 12:28 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
A Religious Reason Not to Create a WSU School of Medicine
The Seattle Times reports that some legislators are worried that the proposed new WSU School of Medicine will be, in effect, a religious school limited by its association with Spokane’s Sacred Heart Hospital. Sacred Heart, of course is required to limit its practice in areas of reproductive [...]
Why Not Use WSU to Train Students for Service in the “Doc in The Box” clinics?
Here in Washington state our two research universities are having a fight. The University of Washington, located in Seattle, has what is rated as the number one program for primary-care and rural medicine. To a large extent the high rating results from the fact that the UW offers a degree that can b[...]
November 16th, 2014 - 9:51 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Who Paid For $unday’s Seattle Times Ad Promoting WSU Medical School?
WSU has a half-page, full-color, advertisement promoting its proposed medical school on page A6 of the Sunday, Nov. 16, 014, edition of the Seattle Times. The ad features a photo of a smiling woman doctor examining a little girl with a stethoscope under the headline, “Washington needs more doc[...]
October 5th, 2014 - 12:00 pm § in Schools & Colleges
War of Washington’s Medical School(s): WSU will be divorced from WWAMI .
The University of Washington and Washington State University declare war. After WSU decided two weeks ago to launch its own medical school, UW and WSU have announced that WSU will be divorced from the WWAMI program. This is a disaster for Washington state students who want to attend medical schoo[...]
Reuven Carlyle: Massive Expansion of the UW School of Medicine
Reuven Carlyle Thinks Big: Let the University of Washington Buy The Amgen Campus First it was Washington State University proposing to create a new medical school in Spokane for the absurdly low annual cost of 24 million dollars. Now, over at his blog, State Representative Reuven Carlyle h[...]