Beebe: Go for quality not quotas at UAMS

Governor suggests geographic bypass

Wanting to guard against the chance of bad doctors operating on Arkansans, Gov. Mike Beebe suggested possibly allowing the state's medical school to waive geographical quotas when judging applicants.

"Certainly you have to recognize and acknowledge that diversity should exist so long as it doesn't adversely impact the quality of the product that we're going to put out there to work on our bodies or our minds," Beebe said Wednesday in an interview.

Medical schools in other states contacted by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette said later that they have no geographical quota system in law, or as a matter of policy, such as at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.

For more information see today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

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