"We are looking to partner and hire people from the communiity who want to partipate in medical education," explained Park.
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To staff the school, Park said RVU is looking to hire between 100 to 120 full and part-time employees. The school's inaugural class of 80 students will be ready to begin clinical rotations in July of 2025. The construction timeline for the new Montana College of Osteopathic Medicine sets a December 2022 goal for completion of construction, with an official ribbon-cutting set for July of 2023. "We are expecting about 600 more truckloads of concrete to build this 135,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art medical education building." "Sixty truck loads of concrete have been poured into the ground already, just to give you the size of the magnitude of this building," said Park. Park, who also serves as dean of the new Billings campus, outlined the project's timeline as it takes shape in west Billings. This is a game changer."Ĭole was among a group of civic and business leaders from the Billings community who met Friday with Rocky Vista University (RVU) Vice President David J. "It's going to be a great addition for medical care not just in Billings, but in central and eastern Montana and more rural areas in northern Wyoming. "Billings is already the premier medical center for the northern Rockies, but this is going to solidify that reputation," said Mayor Bill Cole. Billings prevailed and is now poised to become the home to Montana's first medical school. As it turned out, it was between Casper, Wyoming, and Billings for the location of Rocky Vista University's newest campus.
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