Medical school accreditation a great day in WSU’s history
Kevin Dudley
Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine Dean John Tomkowiak, center, celebrates with Sen. Michael Baumgartner (left) and Rep. Marcus Riccelli (right)
(This story appears in the latest edition of the WSU Spokane Magazine)
By Doug Nadvornick
In the short history of Washington State University’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, there have been several momentous events.
The most important and the one that prompted high fives and whoops and hollers heard all the way across the state was the October 19 decision by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, or LCME – the allopathic medical school accrediting agency in the U.S. and Canada – to grant preliminary accreditation to the college so that it may accept medical students.