By Andrew Doughman (contact) <\/p>\n
Friday, Nov. 8, 2013 | 5:15 p.m. <\/p>\n
UNLV might not have a new, independent medical school until 2025. <\/p>\n
Although the presidents at UNLV and UNR inked an agreement to create a separately accredited medical school at UNLV that would mint new medical doctors, they're hamstrung by a past decision of the university system's Board of Regents. <\/p>\n
In 2005, the board restricted UNR and UNLV to \"a single School of Medicine, School of Law, and School of Dentistry for a period of twenty years.\" <\/p>\n
Right now, UNR operates the University of Nevada School of Medicine. So a UNLV School of Medicine couldn't exist until 2025 under the current rule. <\/p>\n
The presidents of UNR and UNLV said earlier this week that they would work together to develop a \"date certain for the final stage of separately accredited school of medicine,\" but the regents' rule appears to have already made that decision for the presidents. <\/p>\n
So Regent James Dean Leavitt said he's trying to repeal the rule. <\/p>\n
\"How can we now be talking about a UNLV medical school when we have that policy on the books?\" he said. \"It makes sense that it's now time to remove that policy. It's time to remove that prohibition.\" <\/p>\n
Leavitt is the regent who leads a health sciences committee on the board. He was also on the board in 2005 and voted to put the 20-year prohibition in place then. <\/p>\n
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