Walmart Heiress Launches Medical School That’s Turning Healthcare on Its Head

I’m fascinated by this story because it might not be a billionaire vanity project. They are rethinking how we train doctors. This new medical school, funded by a Walmart heiress, includes preventive medicine and art integration that might help change how doctors think.

This July 2025 article by Alice Park, published in TIME, covers the opening of the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine in Bentonville, Arkansas. The inaugural 48 students are diving into a curriculum that integrates mental health, lifestyle, and environmental factors into patient care—topics that usually receive only a footnote in traditional medical training. Could this shift actually help improve Arkansas’s health outcomes? Let's hope for that.

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