OUR OPINION: Vital infrastructure: A new med-school building
December 1, 2012 at 11:37 pm in Grand Forks Herald
With North Dakota’s surging population on track to jump by nearly a fifth over the next eight years, the state’s going to need more infrastructure more roads, highways, sewage-treatment plants and schools. In all of those areas, the state already has started to build. Now, a new building for the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences should be added to the list. Continue Reading
While building a new medical school building should be discussed, I would like to see someone do the following analysis; if the med school were closed and a new facility were not built, how much money would be available to provide direct incentives to healthcare professionals to locate in North Dakota? Would it be cost effective to let other states train the physicians and then provide incentives for them locate in North Dakota? This questions is interesting to me because currently only 40% of the medical students and residents in North Dakota stay in North Dakota. That means the state’s share of the cost for 60% of the students benefits another state. How much would be available each year if the medical school were closed; the annual operation budget plus any planned improvements?
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They will need health care but if it exists or not they won’t be able to afford it.
They are also going to need teachers, lawyers, accountants, managers, and every other major UND offers we may as well just tear down the whole university and move it south of 32nd Ave.
Don’t forget we will also need historians so they can pinpoint when the exact time when we sold our state to oil companies
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The medical school keeps getting more and more money for renovations, but the law school gets nothing. A law professor almost got nailed in the head by a piece of equipment that fell through a ceiling during a lecture, and nothing gets made of it. “pppffftt…they’re only training lawyers!”
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