Don’t slight Wichita medical school

The University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., may need to affiliate with a hospital in Missouri in order to expand its research capabilities, as was proposed last week. But lawmakers are justified in wanting to review the affiliation, given the investment of tax dollars in the medical school. In addition to examining how the new arrangement would affect the KU hospital in Kansas City, lawmakers need to make sure that the KU School of Medicine-Wichita doesn’t get slighted in the research push. The Wichita campus does a great job training physicians and retaining them in Kansas. More research is important, but so is training physicians.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

6 Comments

  1. Ben Huie
    Posted February 8, 2007 at 3:03 pm | Permalink

    I would add that we have some excellent hospitals in Wichita; why not firge research alliances here in the largest city in Kansas?

  2. Vaughn Tolle
    Posted February 8, 2007 at 3:06 pm | Permalink

    Ben, excellent point; however, with Wesley now a “for profit” institution, does this limit the potential? Don’t really know, just asking.

  3. TR
    Posted February 8, 2007 at 5:15 pm | Permalink

    KU School of Medicine -Wichita already has numerous agreements with area hospitals and health care providers:http://wichita.kumc.edu/info/comed.html

    Unfortunately some of the hospitals view their alliance with the school as an expense and aren’t interested in expanding their relationship.

  4. Ben Huie
    Posted February 8, 2007 at 5:22 pm | Permalink

    That’s too bad TR – this would seem to be a good thing for the hospitals as well as KU.

  5. TR
    Posted February 8, 2007 at 9:52 pm | Permalink

    If you’re a public institution wanting to partner with the private sector — well, the bottom line is that the private side wants to know what’s in it for them.

    No matter. Whatever happens in Kansas City won’t affect Wichita, the research side is a separate operation from medical student education.

    As far as making research alliances with hospitals in Wichita, forget it. Wichita is very weak in science and medical research, KU-Wichita and WSU both tried to do major expansions in the 90’s and failed. So I don’t see this going anywhere as far as Wichita is concerned.

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