Dr. Ernest Yoder took time to answer questions about the new College of Medicine, its growth, focus and competition with other medical schools in Michigan.

The $30 million medical schoolwill welcome its first class of about 60 students this summer.

More than 2,700 students applied, theschool will grow from about 60 students to 100 in the next several years, and third- and fourth-year students will study in Saginaw.

CMU will have two facilities in Saginaw, one each at St. Mary's of Michigan and Covenant HealthCare Hospitals.

CMU partnered with the two Saginaw hospitals to 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.

Central Michigan Healthcare, formerly Synergy Medical Education Alliance, will coordinate medical care in the area.

The medical school has preliminary accreditation, step three of five from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education.

What will it take to welcome the inaugural class of med students and hire 20 new faculty members?

We've done a lot of work in the last two-and-a-half years. The work can be talked about from the perspective of the institutional setting which has to do with creating culture and atmosphere of a med school, infrastructure, relationships, documentations for how to bring a medical college to life, and creating relationship within local community and within wider campus and colleges here.

The greatest work is in the education program. Were creating curriculum and instruction and assessment for students and program evaluation. Well setmeasurablegoals and objectives for students.

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Q&A with Central Michigan College of Medicine Dean Ernest Yoder