WITH VIDEO: Yoder presents to A-Senate, will talk finances next week
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The plan for Central Michigan University’s College of Medicine has been laid out before the Academic Senate.
In the first of a series of presentations, Ernest Yoder, founding dean of CMED, explained the mission and future challenges facing CMED at the A-Senate meeting Tuesday.
The philosophy of the curriculum is patient-centered care, Yoder said. The curriculum course structure focuses on formal knowledge courses, clinical experience inquiry and discovery.
Yoder said medical analysts predict a continuing loss of physicians in Michigan by the year 2020. Part of the challenge facing CMED will be to close the gap on the distributions of physicians, he said.
“It’s predicted that in nine short years, we will have a shortfall of 6,000 physicians in the state of Michigan,” Yoder said. “We need to look at a change in how we do health care.”
CMED’s recruiting targets are 80 percent Michigan students, and 20 percent out-of-state students. Yoder said they had no plans yet to recruit international students, but would be open to the idea.
Laura Frey, Faculty Association president and associate professor of counseling and special education, raised concern about how CMED would be funded based on the current hypothetical models.
“What’s the plan for where the cost to continue to fund this will come?” Frey said. “And what are the plans currently in place if there is not an accreditation this round?”
The Liaison Committee on Medical Education visited campus from Nov. 13 to 16 to make a step in determining if CMED will move toward earning academic accreditation.
Yoder said he expected the LCME to accredit CMED. Additionally, he said there is an incentive for students who want to stay in the region because they can receive loan forgiveness from the communities working with CMED. They also create revenue from hired CMED faculty, he said.
“We do actually have research revenue now and we do have some clinical revenue,” Yoder said. “I will share up-to-date numbers when I present on the resources. I will show you the projections when we talk about it.”
Orlando Perez, professor and chairman of political science, asked if CMED would be taxed as other CMU college programs are.
Provost Gary Shapiro said most of the graduate programs do not generate enough revenue to be taxed.
“What is being paid is the undergrad programs are paying in lieu of the programs in the particular department,” Shapiro said.
A-Senate passed a motion that Yoder would give the CMED financial presentation at the next meeting, from 4 to 5 p.m. on Tuesday.
