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December 14, 2005
Meeting of the Deans
Dr Taylor resigned under pressure within himself. In his words "I had a conflict between my cerebral hemispheres and my heart. My heart won."
- fired clinicians he hired when he came in. Hired to grow.
Dr Paul Whelton: - 2500 beds to about 100. 40% clinic use, 25% inpatient use. 11 hospitals to 2. If we can't continue to be a school of excellence, we don't want to be there. Maintain ourselves as a "top ten" school. Trying to be in top fifty in research. Committed to pay faculty through June 2007. Committed to maintain direction Dr Taylor. We will be ready to return to New Orleans. Expect to have TUHC fully open by April. Working with VA to contract space and beds. They also have (VA) significant capacity to build.
Working to bring Charity with back. Leasing space in Elmwood to restart charity trauma unit.
University hospital also expected to come back, maybe above the first floor.
Dr Taylor is committed to continuing to help us. Advocacy?
Charity resident pay is a big if.
Question: we want a list of faculty. That is simply not possible. These people have careers that are not to be advertized.
We may be replacing the faculty that have left(?!)
You're asking us to commit to the institution. We came here because of the family. We have a sense that some members of the family have been kicked off the boat. We want to know what the core values are.
Clinical faculty were cut across the board.
From Dr Krane: there are real challenges to the nature of the education. We have kept small group sessions. We're going to pair 1st and 2nd years with 3rds and fourths to interview. We have gotten Houston physicians to start serving as preceptors.
From Dr Kahn: with regard to counseling and tutors. I'm here for you guys. We've got student tutors. Working on a website for local resources. AAMC site allows you to do career counseling.
Dr Whelton said that, contrary to the news reports, we actually separated about 140 faculty.
Orleans parish population went from 600,000 to 60,000 to 100,000, projected to go up to 250,000. 1.3 million antedeluvian. 1 million now, but many in St Tammeny and Jefferson parishes.
It is illegal for us to prevent people from transferring. We are not preventing people from transferring. I certainly do urge people to stay here because I believe it's important to keep the school together. When called by other deans about transfers, when they ask about you as a student.
Posted by Niels Olson at December 14, 2005 1:28 PM
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