RMLC Overview:
Rocky Mountain Learning Center is a nonprofit, 501(c)3 educational center planned to open in South Metro Denver in 2010. RMLC will provide ongoing training and education in medical, surgical and allied health professions.
The Center is designed to have a local, national, and international reach, with a fresh look at healthcare education. The Center will be one of the most technologically advanced and integrated facilities in the country. It will utilize both lecture based and hands on teaching philosophies to provide attendees with a well‐rounded and interactive educational experience.
The faculty at RMLC will consist of advanced practitioners in a variety of medical and surgical fields and will be drawn from a pool of national and international candidates. RMLC will welcome all physicians, nurses, physician assistants, medical students, physical and occupational therapists, sterile processing technicians and practice managers. An estimated 1,000 physicians and another 5,000 healthcare professionals will receive training at RMLC each year, in turn benefiting tens of thousands of patients throughout Colorado, the United States and beyond.
RMLC prides itself on being a completely unbiased teaching facility. Not one company, health care practitioner or institutional provider will have any ownership stake in RMLC, nor is RMLC sponsored by any medical school. The programs held at RMLC will be developed by input from the community RMLC serves rather than solely by the independent judgment of its management.
Why Build RMLC?
There is a deficit in the Rocky Mountain region of facilities that have the capability to sponsor the teaching of multidisplinary, multispecialty, advanced medical, surgical and practice management skills. RMLC will fill a large portion of this educational capacity gap by providing state of the art surgical and classroom teaching infrastructure within a single 29,000 square foot structure.
RMLC will feature:
RMLC will mean easier access to centralized facilities for teaching programs of hospitals throughout the region, which will lower the overall costs to these institutions. Because RMLC will be providing practice management education and other various educational opportunities to primary care physicians, RMLC will both attract more primary care physicians to Colorado and increase the probability that existing practices will be managed soundly enough to decrease the migration of primary care practitioners to other markets and other specialties. The educational opportunities available at RMLC are expected to be superior to those available at existing teaching facilities due to the quality of faculty and facilities that will be in place at RMLC, which will promote higher quality patient care throughout the region.