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Media reports say earlier this month he stepped into the hall of Alice L. Walton School of Medicine in Bentonville, Arkansas.
The first class of 48 students began on July 14th at a four-year medical school, named after a wealthy woman and heir to Walmart.
Axios reported that the school accepts less than 3% of applicants, and a third of its students are from Arkansas.
According to its website, the school is waived tuition fees for its first five cohort of students.
The school is marking Walton’s latest foray into the healthcare sector. In 2019, she founded the non-profit Whole Health Institute. It is headquartered near the school and her Crystal Bridge Museum. Additionally, Walmart’s corporate office is also located in Bentonville.
Walton’s efforts are inspired by the way she was treated as a patient after a car accident in the 1980s, according to Time.
Walton’s School of Medicine to take a “Overall Health” approach
The school says its curriculum will take a “comprehensive and collaborative approach to care designed to promote resilience, prevent disease and restore health,” and its website will take a “whole health” approach.
“The foundation (of the curriculum) is traditional medicine, but is strengthened to improve care delivery along with the humanities and the arts, so we improve the way we behave with patients and partner with patients.”
The magazine reported that Walton has been battling bone infections, multiple surgeries and prolonged health issues for over a decade, saying “our health care system is broken.”
“(Students) will have all the science and illness knowledge needed to manage the ‘chic care’ side of things,” Walton told Time. “But I wanted to create a school that really gives doctors the ability to focus on how to keep their patients healthy.”
