As other medical school presidents urged the Senate to keep adequate funding for their medical schools because of patient safety concerns and the accreditation maintenance of their schools, Dr. Ransom was asked about the LCME accreditation process of his UNTMD plan and whether it would be approved. He implied there had been frequent communications between him and the secretariat of LCME during the preliminary development of UNTMD business plan and that he believed the accreditation process would be about 1.5 years long.
Comment: Dr. Ransom’s body language betrayed his testimony as he touched his hair and his neck; he also drank a glass of water while answering the accreditation process.
Senator Deuell questioned whether Dr. Ransom had neglected his primary mission of being the president of UNTHSC instead of devoting his main efforts to creating another medical school. When questioned about the recent drastic drop in students’ board scores on step I and III, Dr. Ransom claimed that TCOM students have been among the top on the board scores, although not necessarily at the very top, for the past several years.
Fact check: TCOM students had scored the highest on the boards, COMLEX I and II, from 2005-2009, and COMLEX III from 2008-09.
Comment: His body language betrayed his statement as he touched his hair and drank water again.
Dr. Ransom may have been too busy with his push for an MD school that he did not know the fact his students had been the top in the nation, or he did not want to admit his failure or poor performance because he neglected his primary mission instead of driving good professors away.
In September 2010, UNT Health Group had 99 DOs and 71 MDs, in his testimony, 2/3rd of the clinical faculty members are now MDs. Another explanation is that he may not know the difference between being the top and among the top, or he just believes that his TCOM students are just above average and thus only among the top instead of being the top.
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