MORE ON UT AUSTIN MEDICAL CAMPUS

Please see "UT Medical Branch Official Expands on Austin Medical School Proposal," in today's on-line edition of the Austin American-Statesman.  An excerpt:

Dr. T. Samuel Shomaker, who also heads Central Texas Institute, a group of Austin-area leaders supporting academic education and research, said UT System regents are considering a small, research-based medical school affiliated with the UT Southwestern Medical School at Dallas that would have about 50 students in each class for a total of 200 students. Another 350 would be residents and other physician graduates who would be in training as doctors.

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[Sing-a-long]

"Bye-bye med school, bye-bye."
"Bye-bye island, don't cry."

"Read my lips, we are not moving UTMB to Austin!"
If you want to know the truth, you got to ask the right question. It's never going to go down like this: closing UTMB campus, and moving everybody to Austin. However, you build a "nest" somewhere, like in Austin, with attractive offers for excellent faculty. What will happen? You can figure it out. You guessed right. After the large drain of people to other places that has been going on during the past year and half, many of the remaining ones will send their CVs to the new med school. Eventually, UTMB will become just a small primary care facility, with minimum state support and activities. Now that tenure doesn't worth much. You figured out the rest....

[Al Jolson]

Dear Sing-a-long,

You probably meant

Toot, toot, Med School, goo'bye
Toot, toot, Island, don't cry
The Austin train that takes me
Away from you, no words can tell how sad it makes me

Definitely a catchy tune.