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FWBP: $25 million gift for TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine

lowfrog

Active Member
At one time there were plans to build some facilities on the TCU campus. Maybe that will still happen, but for now, the issue was probably just to get the school open.

That's definitely the case. There are a lot of legal and certification structural issues that have to be passed before a medical school can be established in the US and Texas. The fastest, easiest, best way to establishing an MD granting medical school in Fort Worth was/is for TCU to collaborate with UNTHSC. UNTHSC had already tried to start a MD medical school on its own and the state wouldn't permit it. With TCU in the picture, there's a medical school in Fort Worth. Another important point is that UNTHSC is a public school and receives funding from the state legislature as medical schools like UT's do. This collaboration of a UNTHSC/TCU medical school is eligible to receive funds from the state legislature. There has been talk/speculation and there may even be plans we don't know about yet for a medical school building in various locations in Fort Worth, with the hospital district being the area most often mentioned. To me, the way to think about this collaboration is not about the banners or nameplate on it. Better to think about this collaboration like any marriage you are in or have been in. Your banners and nameplate are on the marriage, but who really controls and runs your marriage? She does.
 

TCU_backer

Active Member
Last I heard was Baylor Scott & White had approached TCU about donating the land for the new school on their campus, and creating a residency program (similar to Nursing) for the MD program.
 
Another bit of history.....

The Maddox-Muse Center adjacent to Bass Hall was once the site of The Fort Worth Medical College. Around 1905 or so, this Medical School became affiliated with TCU. So this is the second time that TCU has had an affiliated Medical School. There is a bronze plaque on the north side of the building that memorializes this history.
 

tcudoc

Full Member
Another bit of history.....

The Maddox-Muse Center adjacent to Bass Hall was once the site of The Fort Worth Medical College. Around 1905 or so, this Medical School became affiliated with TCU. So this is the second time that TCU has had an affiliated Medical School. There is a bronze plaque on the north side of the building that memorializes this history.
It was closed down after only a few years because of poor education quality after the “Flexner Report” was published. That report made the claim that medical education needed to have better quality control and some oversight for how they are operated. The FW medical college was one of many in the country that got very poor reports and many other Med schools were shut down.
I actually have a leather bound copy of that book.
 

Eight

Member
It was closed down after only a few years because of poor education quality after the “Flexner Report” was published. That report made the claim that medical education needed to have better quality control and some oversight for how they are operated. The FW medical college was one of many in the country that got very poor reports and many other Med schools were shut down.
I actually have a leather bound copy of that book.

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