Becker's Healthcare August 14, 2024
The Alice L. Walton School of Medicine in Bentonville, Ark., is slated to welcome its first class of students to its four-year medical degree program in 2025, pending accreditation.
Walmart heir Alice Walton announced plans to finance and build a nonprofit, independent medical school in 2021. At the time, Ms. Walton said the school intended to forge a “reimagination of American medical education.”
Five things to know about the medical school:
1. The school’s curriculum will expand on evidence-based teaching methods, incorporating training in whole-person health, humanities, integrative health approaches, research and advanced technologies. Training will also emphasize diversity, equity and inclusion; interprofessional collaboration; mental health; social determinants of health and self care for patients, students and staff.
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