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Oakland University William Beaumont
School of Medicine
• 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 University’s and
Beaumont Hospitals’ highly complementary
programs and infrastructures will transform and
elevate both institutions to the next level in our
shared pursuit of excellence.
• The Oakland University William Beaumont School of
Medicine will generate hundreds of new jobs and
bring hundreds of millions of dollars into the region’s
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.
• 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.
• 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 Michigan’s citizens access to health care.
• 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 University’s
Research capabilities and programs.
• 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.
• 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.
• We have identified a vision:
“A partnership to lead innovation in patientcentered medical education and research.”
• If all goes as planned, our charter class of
medical students will graduate in 2014.