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Posted on 04/27/2025 4:48:43 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
For the first time in more than 40 years, a new Christian medical school granting MD degrees has opened its doors in the US.
A class of 50 students is finishing its inaugural school year now at Belmont University’s Thomas F. Frist, Jr. College of Medicine. That’s 50 future doctors who could be reinforcements for a workforce facing severe shortages.
“I call them the fabulous 50,” said Tanu Rana, a microbiologist and immunologist on the new faculty. “I love them dearly, and I’ve really enjoyed every second with them.”
A new medical school in general is rare, let alone a Christian school. Belmont’s is the first MD-granting school of any kind to open in Tennessee in 50 years.
“It’s been extremely hard,” said Anderson Spickard, the school’s dean and a veteran internal medicine doctor. He came to the startup school from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where he was a faculty member for 27 years. “There’s tension at every turn.”
Oral Roberts University, which opened a medical school in 1981, appears to be the most recent Christian MD-granting institution to open. It closed in 1990 under millions in debt.
Belmont’s medical school has a clinical and advisory partnership with HCA Healthcare, a mammoth health system based in Nashville and founded by members of the Frist family. The school’s new facility, abutting the Belmont campus, is a $180 million columned edifice with labs, cozy study rooms, and a mock hospital ward for simulations.
Peter Huwe, who was teaching at Mercer University School of Medicine before joining the Belmont medical school faculty, said he had dreamed of being able to teach medicine from a Christian standpoint.
The school emphasizes servant leadership in doctors, a phrase faculty used several times in interviews, and whole person care.
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I met Senator Frist at the RNC convention.
My Mil graduated from Belmont with Sarah Cannon.
Wow, CT published an article by a Christian journalist!
“I met Senator Frist at the RNC convention.”
I worked for them at HCA for many years as a data manager. Well, the only data manager. People didn’t realize how huge HCA really was.
“It’s been extremely hard,” said Anderson Spickard, the school’s dean and a veteran internal medicine doctor. He came to the startup school from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where he was a faculty member for 27 years. “There’s tension at every turn.”
Anyone that remembers Frist doesn’t miss him.
And hopefully no DEI at this school.
Amazing.
Loma Linda University is a Christian University located in Southern California. Founded by Seventh Day Adventists. I have many doctors and dentists who have graduated from Loma Linda. Great medical treatment and wonderful people.
Well, most Republicans are too liberal for us, here on Free Republic. So there’s that.
Hippocratic Oath required for grads?
Marian University, a Catholic school in Indianapolis, Started the first Catholic school of Doctor of Osteopathy, which is an MD program in 2011. Both Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (DOs) and Doctors of Medicine (MDs) are licensed physicians, meaning they can practice all aspects of medicine and specialize in any field. The primary difference lies in their philosophy and training approach: DOs are trained in osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM), which emphasizes a holistic, whole-person approach to care, while MDs primarily focus on treating specific condition
Hopefully, they won’t be blackballed from good residency programs because of their beliefs.
How many are: Americans, white, speak English without a heavy accent.
The full article mentioned a diverse bunch.
While I acknowledge that the US is on the cutting edge of certain specializations, surgeries, etc… - I have had far better experiences abroad as far as general healthcare is concerned from check-up to pharmacy. And make it a point to avoid American, American-trained doctors whenever possible. Esp if they just came out of school in recent decades. The blind obedience to Fauci type professors, and the conformity to the fascist impulses we saw manifest in Covid is strong and alarming. So yeah. *shivers*
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