For-profit doctor colleges — boon for Montana or boondoggle?

Montana faces a doctor shortage — one-third of its physicians are over age 60 and nearing retirement — so you’d expect a lot of excitement in the medical community about two new proposals to open doctors’ colleges here.

Yet the idea of for-profit colleges of osteopathic medicine has sparked alarm among some Montana doctors.

By Gail Schontzler Chronicle Staff Writer

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Billings providers concerned about medical school plans in Bozeman, Missoula

Medical providers in Billings have expressed concerns about separate plans for developing for-profit medical schools in Missoula and Bozeman.

Recently, a private investment group announced that it is conducting a feasibility study that could lead to the development of a for-profit college of osteopathic medicine in Bozeman. It would be similar to the $85 million Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine in New Mexico, which was bankrolled by New Mexico entrepreneur Daniel Burrell.

TOM HOWARD For the Independent Record

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Missoula Hospitals, University of Montana mostly mum on new medical college in Missoula

So far, medical and educational leaders in Missoula do not appear to have embraced the idea of opening a for-profit osteopathic school here.

The hospitals have stayed mostly mum. Last week, Providence St. Patrick Hospital and Community Medical Center both issued brief noncommittal statements about the school in response to interview requests.

KEILA SZPALLER [email protected]

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