The Strategic Reason Why BYU Is Building a Medical School Now

To understand why the Church is only just now re-entering the medical business, we need to look back at some of its history.

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The timing is right.

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We have an eager student body, we have a church membership in need, we have medically trained church leaders, and we have the financial capacity to make this vision a reality.

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Go watch this video to learn about the details of this new announcement from the Scripture Central YouTube channel.

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[strawberryme]

I wish they’d teach healing in their school herbs etc and root cause

[daffodilfleur]

I’m very happy about this terrific development. I know it’ll be highly successful and allow for many more individuals to go out into the world and provide medical care to those in need. Exciting news!

[dtmelanson]

Operating hospitals everywhere would be incredibly expensive. Sending doctors everywhere would be comparatively cheap.

[academyofchampions]

I am happy for the news about BYU. I am somewhat concerned for the state of affairs with medical schools in general being caught up in woke nonsensical “science”. In science, especially medical science, truth matters. Hopefully BYU doesn’t fall into the same errors as other places.

[mattreedah]

I wish the church would still have a hospital system ran by the relief society and primary. It would give those groups a charitable purpose to point to as part of their mission

[confusedwhynot]

All my siblings and I were born in the LDS hospital in Idaho Falls, Idaho from 1950-1968. Every surgery we had was done in the very same hospital except my sister's open heart surgery that was done at Primary Childrens in the fall of 1968. I remember when the church closed the hospital which stood next door to the temple. My mom also acquired a brick from the hospital when it was torn down and replaced with a stake center. They had a underground tunnel that connected the hospital to the temple. It was used during medical emergencies in the temple. The hospital was also were my father and grandfather passed away when I was a child. I kinda understand why the church got out of many businesses that they were doing. There was a lot of pushback from government and outsiders that resented the church. The church had started the businesses to provide for the welfare of the saints. My dad and many other saints worked in the sugar factories from Southeastern Idaho all the way south to Arizona. It wasnt the only busy venture the church had. It was how many generations of members survived in those early years of the church.

[kimhadley]

The Graduates from Brigham Young University Medical School will make incredible contributions to citizens & patients in the USA & worldwide. Congratulations BYU 💙and Doctor/ President Russell M. Nelson

[ralphjenkinsak]

My Grandfather was the chief superintendent for LDS Hospitals during the depression through WWII and oversaw expansion of the LDS Hospital system through the intermountain states including Logan, Roosevelt, Panguitch, Fillmore, St. George, and Mount Pleasant before his passing.

[LiveHappy]

I'd like to see the church expand its Deseret Mutual Benefits Administrators (DMBA, the health/medical insurance of BYU when I attended 1995-2005) available worldwide...there is HUGE need for affordable insurance, such as by this NON-PROFIT, also competent and compassionate, insurance company!

[justinkiggins]

BYU has a ridiculous amount of great students applying to medical schools

[DragonZlayerx]

I want BYU to expand further. I want more BYUs, in many different countries.

[UVJ_Scott]

Intermountain Healthcare is committed to telemedicine and I’m sure the Church will help facilitate the advancement of telemedicine throughout the world.

[MarkDixon]

Thank you for mentioning my 3rd great grandmother Pattie Sessions! She was a remarkable woman.

[mikelight]

Great report! Thank you. Please let us know what the church's formal position will be regarding the medical school's position--and practice--on abortion and stem cell research and also stem cell use. Not to mention active and passive euthanasia.

[rebeccalarson]

We have talked a lot about it. My husband works at BYU. I see the need for it and I can see a good reason for it. It's too bad that we don't already have, it but at the same time I think it is good and the timing is right--right now.

[brentkillian]

My podiatrist recently went on a two week trip to Tonga to help with foot care. He said they had quite a shortage. He was trying to get some type of mission for retired docs to do a service medical mission from the brethren. I think they could even do some type of scholarship to pay for school if you service the needs of a particular area for a specified time.

[commoncents]

There also has been a moratorium on new medical schools in the USA until recently.

[familiesmentoringfamilies]

I really wish they would include homeopathy, which is truly God’s medicine!

[masonpetty]

They should apply Natural Pathic medicine too. I knew it was political when they announced it.

[heden]

I recently learned about the first woman doctor in Utah when I went to the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers museum and saw some of the things there about her. It was interesting. I've been there before, but only on the main floor. I didn't realize it was so big. I went specifically to the the coffin cane's of Joseph Smith. The one with the white top has hair of Joseph and Hyrum braided together. I wish there was a way I could have held that cane. -