Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine

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Oakland University William BeaumontSchool of
Medicine
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• In partnership with Beaumont Hospitals we will
  bring the first M.D. granting private medical
  school to Oakland County and the first new
  medical school started in Michigan in a
  generation.
• The collaboration of Oakland Universitys and
  Beaumont Hospitals highly complementary programs
  and infrastructures will transform and elevate
  both institutions to the next level in our shared
  pursuit of excellence.

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• The Oakland University William Beaumont School of
  Medicine will generate hundreds of new jobs and
  bring hundreds of millions of dollars into the
  regions economy in the first year alone.
• It has the potential to generate
• thousands of jobs and an
• economic impact of up to
• 1 billion dollars annually
• in the region, once it is fully operational.

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• It will be a medical school that trains
  physicians to practice 21st century medicine with
  an emphasis on research, technology, preventive
  and pre-symptom medicine, treatment and
  management of chronic disease, and teamwork.

• It will promote applied research
• from the bench to the bedside,
• assuring that scientific discoveries
• and new technologies are able
• to directly benefit patients in the
• most rapid timeframe possible.

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• Business ventures in related health care fields
  will take off.
• The school will also attract top-level medical,
  business and academic leaders from around the
  globe, and help keep our best and brightest
  from leaving the state to pursue educational
  opportunities elsewhere.
• It will also play a key role in the growing
  challenge of providing Michigans citizens access
  to health care.

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• Unique by design, the medical school will prepare
• a physician able to adapt to and embrace the
• changing demands of patient care in the 21st
  century.
• It will produce a physician with
• an ability to balance the art of
• science and medicine in a high
• tech environment.
• The medical school will vastly
• enhance Beaumont Hospitals and Oakland
  Universitys
• Research capabilities and programs.

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• The medical school and OU faculty will work
  together in seeking new National Institutes of
  Health and other national agency funding
  opportunities.
• Already, Oakland and Beaumont Hospitals have
  initiated 15 new joint privately-funded research
  projects.

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• Our timeline to open a
• medical school on campus
• targets the fall of 2010 and
• a charter class of 50
• students.
• Between now and then we are working with the
  accrediting authority, the LCME, to present our
  application materials and to facilitate a site
  visit before receiving the go ahead in 2009 to
  actively recruit students.

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• We have identified a vision
• A partnership to lead innovation in
  patient-centered medical education and research.
• If all goes as planned, our charter class of
  medical students will graduate in 2014.