The GWU medical school has shed its probationary status by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), its accreditation body. Throughout this ordeal, the medical school's accreditation never lapsed and now only the Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico remains on LCME probation.

We do not believe the school will suffer any long-term damage from this probation. In fact, we don't really think they suffered much damage during the probationary period given they received over 14,000 applications this past year for 175 openings.

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On the heels of some other similar announcements, Quinnipiac University has announced that they too will be starting a medical school. The school has announced that a recently concluded study determined that they have the financial and physical resources to successfully open a medical school. The plans, however, are still unclear about whether the inaugural class will commence in the fall of 2013 or 2014.

This is great news. The country has been in desperate need of additional doctors and training facilities for some time. This is also a great way for a school such as Quinnipiac to raise its status amongst the national universities.

While the larger public is justifiably more concerned with current health care legislation components such as universal coverage, those in the medical schools are looking at components of the legislation geared towards teaching hospital subsidies, resident training (the expanding medical school class sizes will require more resident slots), student debt relief and more.

While the scope of the pending legislation and the myriad mutations it can undergo are well beyond the scope of this blog, it is certainly something we encourage every prospective medical school student to keep a close eye on.

The board of trustees at Florida Atlantic University are voting on a proposal today that would cancel its medical training affiliation with the University of Miami and establish its own independent medical school.

In addition to having an additional medical school to crank out more young doctors to meet South Florida's growth needs, FAU is claiming the tuition for its medical program would be $21,752, compared with about $30,000 for University of Miami's medical school program.