Welcome commitment to Wichita’s doctor training

Credit the investment committee of the Kansas Bioscience Authority for getting it — that the Wichita Center for Graduate Medical Education’s value to the state is great and its funding needs are real and pressing. Though the three-year, $6.1 million proposal the panel decided Wednesday to recommend to the full authority falls short of WCGME’s $9 million request, it would afford the physician-training program a funding stream as well as a significant opportunity to do some strategic planning. “The money will be there, but you’ll have to come back and tell us what you need it for,” committee member Ed McKechnie told officials with WCGME, a consortium that includes the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita and Wesley and Via Christi hospitals. The plan also would require WCGME to find $3.9 million from other sources, and WCGME may need to pursue state money beyond the $2.5 million approved this year by the Legislature. But assuming the bioscience authority board follows its investment committee’s lead next month, which it should, WCGME’s future now looks firmer.

3 Comments

  1. sunflower5
    Posted September 14, 2008 at 11:44 am | Permalink

    Thanks to the work of Representative Brenda Landwehr and Representative Tom Sawyer. They worked very hard to get this done.

    Thank you.

  2. JWink
    Posted September 14, 2008 at 1:27 pm | Permalink

    Now, I could agree with this if our esteemed Kansas House members, Sawyer and Landwehr, and their legislative associates would do the same for the other professions which are in such short supply in Kansas.

    I’m thinking of teachers, nurses, engineers, dentists, business majors, etc. All kinds of professionals are needed, particularly to work out in sparsely populated western Kansas, not for the money but for professional development and to help the people.

  3. Forex Trading Robots
    Posted September 16, 2008 at 2:25 am | Permalink

    It never closes: some strategic planning is open 24/7. We all began making some strategic planning with All kinds of making the money. You can manage a significant opportunity by understanding how some strategic planning works and what drives it up and down.