Recommendations awaited on retaining med students in Northwest Ohio

A state commission is more than four months late with a set of recommendations to stop the steady stream of graduating medical students out of northwest Ohio (Source: “Report on retaining new Ohio doctors overdue,” Toledo Blade, Sept. 11, 2008).

The 27-member Commission on the Future of Health Care Education and Physician Retention in Northwest Ohio was expected to submit a report May 1 with a list of recommendations to Gov. Ted Strickland and the General Assembly. It has not met since early February.

Last year just 11 percent of medical students graduating from the University of Toledo stayed in the region for a year or longer, up from 8 percent in 2006.