CMU officials revealed schematic designs Thursday morning for the two buildings in Saginaw.

The designs include facilities at Covenant HealthCare, at 800 Cooper, and at St. Mary's of Michigan hospital near Hoyt and South Franklin.

A panel discussion featured Dr. Ernest Yoder, College of Medicine dean; Linda Perkowski, College of Medicine associate dean; Steve Lawrence, CMU facilities management associate vice president; Doulas Iles, CMU foundation development board member. The event at the Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce October Percolator Breakfast was moderated by Kathleen Wilbur, CMU development and external affairs vice president.

Lawrence said CMU doesn't yet have a cost estimate for the Saginaw sites, which officials are calling the medical school's East Campus, and CMU will start next week interviewing construction management firms.

Combined, the two Saginaw facilities will be 120,000 to 130,000 square feet, he said.

The facility at Cooper has two stories with clinical space, classrooms and a simulation lab. At St. Marys, CMU will renovate and add space to the existing Health Education Center. That facility will have classrooms and office space.

CMU is partnering with Saginaw hospitals Covenant HealthCare and St. Mary's of Michigan. The three organizations formed a 501(c)3 corporation, Central Michigan Medical Education Partners, to manage five residency programs, emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery and plan a sixth in psychiatry.

The medical school has preliminary accreditation, step three of five from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. It allows the College of Medicine to operate, Yoder said. The university is on track to receive full accreditation by 2017, the first year it will graduate students.

The CMU College of Medicine aims to create a new model of health care and implement patient-centered medical care. Medicine is about a team, and it includes the person receiving the care, Yoder said.

CMU's focus is on training physicians to work in under-served rural and urban areas, and that includes recruiting students from those areas and who want to work and live in Michigan, Perkowski said.

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CMU College of Medicine reveals early drawings of two Saginaw buildings