Central Michigan University's College of Medicine will be located in a $24 million, 60,000-square-foot addition to the Health Professions Building, scheduled to be completed early in 2012. CMU Medical School Developer Slated to Speak at Tri-County Economics Club
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Dr. Cam Enarson, interim dean of the new Central Michigan University College of Medicine, Mt. Pleasant, will speak to the Tri-County Economics Club at a luncheon Monday, April 26 at Saginaw Valley State University.
Dr. Enarson (Right) was appointed Interim Dean of the College of Medicine at Central Michigan University on July 1, 2009. Since his appointment, he has been leading efforts to establish the medicals school at Central Michigan University. The medical school is currently recognized as an applicant school by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME). Enrollment of the first class of 100 is planned for the fall of 2012.
Citing impending physician shortages that could disproportionately impact regions from mid-Michigan north to the Upper Peninsula, the CMU Board of Trustees in April 2007 began formally exploring the feasibility of establishing a medical school.
The CMU vision is for a rurally focused medical school that would serve the needs of 2 million people in a very, very large geographic region in mid- and northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula. Many of the people in this population are significantly underserved in health care availability and quality.
Michigan enjoys three well established universities with medical schools, but the state -- particularly the mid-Michigan and northern regions -- is especially susceptible to the pending physician shortage, because as the shortage becomes acute, it is likely that most physicians will tend to remain close to health care systems with a teaching emphasis. The university is concerned there will not be sufficient forces compelling new physicians -- all of whom will be in high demand -- to practice in our region.
In many ways, establishing a medical school would be a natural evolution for CMU because it would be building upon a 116-year foundation of teaching basic sciences at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
A native of Alberta Canada, Dr. Enarson received a bachelor's degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. Dr. Enarson received his M.D. degree from the University of Alberta in 1982. He completed residency training in Anesthesiology at the University of Maryland Medical System in Baltimore, Maryland and a fellowship in Cardiac Anesthesiology at the Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Dr. Enarson also received an MBA degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
He started his academic career at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and served in various faculty and administrative roles for 13 years before being named Vice-President for Health Sciences and Dean of the School of Medicine at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska in 2003. Dr. Enarson served in these roles for five years before returning to North Carolina as a Visiting Scholar at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Dr. Enarson is recognized as a national expert in educational program development and accreditation. He has served as member, team secretary, or chair of 21 site visit teams to medical schools in the United States and Canada. He was a member of the LCME, the accrediting body for MD degree programs in the United States and Canada, for six years from 2002-2008 serving as co-chair for academic year 2007-2008. He has also served as Chair of the Section on Medical Schools of the American Medical Association and currently is a member of the National Board of Medical Examiners.
For more information on the Tri-County Economics Club please contact: mlpocock@svsu.edu. ###
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