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<p>Perhaps. Do you have a list for this? Don’t all graduates from allopathic medical schools qualify to practice medicine? Do tiers even matter in medicine? Isn’t that why they have the USMLE?</p>
<p>I wasn’t suggesting a medical school will improve a university’s department of geosciences, but I was suggesting that a medical school (due to its size/wealth) probably will guarantee that that school at least receives a minimal amount of research dollars, in at least the area of health research. I’m not aware of any allopathic school of medicine that is not substantially involved in research. </p>
<p>Anyways, I’m not going to argue this. If some of you overly-sensitive LAC folks are offended by this view (I made no suggestion anywhere that universities without medical schools are bad - you folks did), then that’s your issue. I think it’s clear universities have to have a pretty established infrastructure before they set about building a medical school.</p>