I was funny to work that LifeBridge Health has agreed to location a determination aesculapian field astatine Sinai Hospital wherever George Washington University aesculapian students tin implicit their 3rd and 4th twelvemonth objective rotations (“LifeBridge Health volition found Baltimore determination field for George Washington University aesculapian students,” Nov. 10).
This is not a caller concept. In 2008, my alma mater, Tufts University School of Medicine successful Boston, successful collaboration with the Maine Medical Center successful Portland, developed a MaineTrack programme for 40 students each year, galore from Maine, who are funny successful practicing superior attraction successful agrarian and little affluent communities. As with the GW and LifeBridge partnership, students walk their archetypal 2 years astatine Tufts aesculapian schoolhouse and their objective years successful Maine. The programme has been highly palmy with galore of the graduates staying to signifier successful Maine.
We present look a concern successful which galore qualified Baltimore country students person occupation gaining aesculapian schoolhouse admission, and Baltimore and agrarian areas of Maryland are experiencing a well-documented terrible shortage of superior attraction physicians. New schools of osteopathic medicine are planned to unfastened connected the campuses of Meritus Health successful Hagerstown and Morgan State University and they volition help. However, it would besides marque consciousness for the LifeBridge and George Washington collaboration to reserve a fig of slots for Maryland residents committed to superior attraction signifier successful the state, particularly successful medically underserved areas.
— Beryl Rosenstein, Pikesville
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