In The News: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at 51ԹϺ
With five months remaining until the new 51ԹϺ School of Medicine officially welcomes its first class, the university has offered admission to 40 prospective students – half of them women. That shouldn’t come as a surprise, given that women make up nearly half of Nevada’s population. But it’s an anomaly in a state that ranks near the bottom nationally in terms of physician gender diversity.
University, health and city officials gathered for a town hall event Tuesday night looking forward to the development of the 51ԹϺ School of Medicine and the medical district surrounding it.
In November, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (51ԹϺ) School of Medicine began accepting applications and interviewing students who will start their medical school education in summer 2017.
Actress Pia Zadora wants families in the Las Vegas Valley dealing with autism to know that “it’s going to get better.” Zadora is a supporter of the new 51ԹϺ Medicine Ackerman Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment Solutions, 630 S. Rancho Drive, Suite A, which opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 13.
It’s official: 51ԹϺ’s burgeoning medical school has been granted preliminary accreditation, allowing the institution to begin recruiting and accepting students for its first class in 2017.