Tech Expansion

[Dawg06]

Osteopaths are considered every bit the equal of mds.Their medical schools are virtually the same as other medical schools. So while we come up with all the reasons we can't do anything they have outmaneuvered us.

Not really. This school will be competing with Caribbean med schools for students. The only students who will go there are ones who can't get in to real med schools or public DO schools. They will always carry a negative stigma with them as satellite DOs plus non-competitiveness for decent residencies as well as unbelievably huge debt loads of possibly over $700,000 per student unless their parents shell out $320,000 for them to be debt-free. With a primary care focus of the school really out of necessity due to lack of other options, those poor students will be paying on their debt until they retire, if they ever can. Only a fool would attend that school.

And it's not ULM's osteopathic school, and they won't be ULM students nor get ULM degrees. It's a private, remote satellite campus of a DO school headquartered in New York. ULM is simply serving as host. It will benefit the Monroe economy by bringing in 400 students to spend student loan money, but I'm not sure how it benefits ULM other than giving them the opportunity to spread fake news.