Considering medical school? Use these pointers and suggestions to help you determine if a career in medicine is right for you.

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Embarking on the path to become a doctor is a lengthy process. It takes a total of at least 11 years: four years of college; four years of medical school; and at least three years of in-hospital training. (Some programs require up to eight years of residency and internship training.)

The medical school applicant pool continues to increase, up to 45,266 in 2012 from 43,919 in 2011, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).

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It's important to build a base of knowledge during your undergraduate academic career. Medical school applicants should have a strong background in math and science, especially biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry and physics. Being a doctor also requires good people skills, and a solid foundation of liberal arts courses such as humanities and social sciences helps, too.

Extracurricular activities like volunteering at a local hospital or medical clinic may make your application stand out, according to the AAMC, and can also be a good way to develop professional relationships that may lead to medical school letters of recommendation.

About 90 percent of medical school applicants apply during their junior year of college and start medical school right after college. Others take time off after graduation or go through an early admissions or accelerated program while they are still undergraduate students.

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As the season gradually transitions into spring, a number of aspiring medical school candidates have begun finalizing a checklist for the upcoming medical school admissions process.

According to experts at MedicalSchoolsInUSA.com, although prospective med school students will start to send in their application packets sometime this late summer or early fall, the season for medical school final preparation, review and assessment have started to heat up.

And to aid aspiring medical school students in their review, MedicalSchoolsInUSA.com, a leading source for medical school resources, rankings and advice, has compiled an informative guide for medical school requirements and prerequisites.

"The months leading up to the big medical school application wave can be the most stressful for a lot of prospective medical school students," explained Ben Davidson, a spokesperson for MedicalSchoolsInUSA.com. "There's a lot they'll be needing to factor into their medical school requirements. From the perfect MCAT score to stellar letters of recommendation, it can certainly be a daunting process."

However, according to Davidson, the key to beginning a medical school application prep is to hone in on the basics before anything else.

"Individuals interested in applying for medical school this fall will need to take the time to thoroughly review and assess where they stand in terms of gaining acceptance to their dream school," he explained. "Prospective med school candidates will need to figure out where they stand in terms of core medical school requirements and prerequisites."

According to experts at MedicalSchoolsInUSA.com, there are a few basic components to any medical school application.

The first, not surprisingly, is proof of a previous degree. While this most commonly comes in the form of a bachelor's degree from a four-year university, according to Davidson, that requirement isn't necessarily black and white.

"Medical school applicants need to show dedication and passion, regardless of the institution they've attended," he stressed. "Although the prestige of your undergraduate university will have a major say in the way that admissions teams assess your application, so long as you're showing consistency and dedication to your craft, you'll be fine."

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Leveraging their respective strengths to improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes, WPI and the UMass Medical School have launched a new strategic partnership.

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Faculty at our institutions have collaborated on projects for many years. Through this new affiliation we hope to create a dynamic and targeted partnership that leverages our respective strengths to advance new technologies, educational and clinical processes that better human health, said WPI Provost Eric Overstrm, PhD.

The new affiliation was announced March 20, 2013, at an HDI symposium. As a first step, both WPI and UMMS will appoint members to a joint leadership coordinating committee that will begin to plan, facilitate, and ultimately oversee targeted faculty research collaborations and graduate educational programs. The HDI/UMMS program will also include professional education and career development components, such as physician leadership training in specified areas.

"UMass Medical School and WPI possess complementary arrays of talent in the fields of biomedical and health sciences, technology, and engineering. As a free-standing health sciences campus, UMass Medical School benefits from outside research and development expertise in some of these disciplines, and WPI is a natural partner due both to its proximity and our shared visions, said Terence R. Flotte, MD, UMMS executive deputy chancellor, provost, and dean of the School of Medicine.

The Healthcare Delivery Institute is a multi-disciplinary organization that includes more than 20 research teams at WPI, external healthcare providers, and industry partners, all working to address the national and global challenge of creating the future of healthcare delivery. At WPI, faculty researchers affiliated with HDI work in areas such as systems engineering, data analytics, mobile and wireless health applications, information technology, advanced robotics, and portable medical devices for monitoring and imaging.

We welcome this new partnership with our colleagues at UMass Medical School, said Vera Tice, managing director of HDI. Through this affiliation we plan to strategically develop high impact practical research and educational programs that improve the delivery of healthcare and patient outcomes, not only here in Massachusetts, but nationally and globally.

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Founded in 1865 in Worcester, Mass., WPI is one of the nation's first engineering and technology universities. Its 14 academic departments offer more than 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science, engineering, technology, business, the social sciences, and the humanities and arts, leading to bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees. WPI's talented faculty work with students on interdisciplinary research that seeks solutions to important and socially relevant problems in fields as diverse as the life sciences and bioengineering, energy, information security, materials processing, and robotics. Students also have the opportunity to make a difference to communities and organizations around the world through the university's innovative Global Perspective Program. There are more than 30 WPI project centers throughout North America and Central America, Africa, Australia, Asia, and Europe.

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About half of medical school students show the classic signs: emotional exhaustion, detachment and a feeling that one's efforts "don't make a difference," says Liselotte Dyrbye, associate professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic.

That's not good, as burnout, in turn, is linked to reduced altruism and unprofessional behavior, such as reporting a physical exam result as normal without actually doing it.

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"We're Type A personalities," says LaShon Sturgis, a fourth-year student at the Medical College of Georgia. "You really have to be encouraged to step back."

To be accredited, medical schools must have some kind of student wellness program. But many are going well beyond a regular aerobics class in their effort to get students to take a break and, yes, have a life. Sturgis says her school has assigned social chairs for each class, operates a wellness center and urges students to "do what we really enjoy -- biking, hiking, reading."

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The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine has formed "fun fitness" athletic groups, offers an anonymous ask-the-psychiatrist online forum and has divided the student body into four "colleges" for advising purposes that compete annually in a two-day "College Cup" of Iron Chef, trivia and dance-off contests.

Mayo, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Virginia, among others, have switched to pass-fail grading in the first two years. At Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, which opened its doors in 2011, students meet in mentoring groups with faculty members for an hour every month to discuss such topics as managing stress and conflict and dealing with mistakes.

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To graduate, fourth-year students at New Jersey Medical School (which will be transferred to Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in July) must complete a podcast-based course intended to ease the transition to residency. One podcast on burnout covers how to combat the physical aspects of stress, change the elements of scheduling that are possible to change and cultivate self-awareness.

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SACRAMENTO For several years, the states deep budget problems have thwarted attempts by supporters of a school of medicine at UC Riverside to get the Legislature to appropriate $15 million for the school.

State finances are improving. Now a labor dispute could complicate the effort.

Tuesday, an Assembly panel easily approved an Inland lawmakers bill to appropriate $15 million toward the school, which is scheduled to accept its first class later this year.

But the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, known as AFSCME, emerged as a powerful potential impediment to the bill and other efforts to obtain the money. The UC system and the union have battled bitterly in recent years and a top union official said Tuesday that he objects to rewarding the system with $15 million for a new medical school.

When you say UC, my 25,000 members see red. They dont see a good neighbor. They dont see someone who cares about the poor or the working class at the University of California, said Willie Pelote, the unions legislative and political director.

AFSCME is among the most active players in California politics and opposition by the federation and other unions scuttles dozens of bills in the Democrat-controlled Legislature. The medical school bills success Tuesday had less to do with committee Democrats commitment to the medical school than the fact that the union raised its objections shortly before Tuesdays hearing.

AFSCME, though, played a significant role in last years elections of Assemblyman Jose Medina and state Sen. Richard Roth -- the Riverside Democrats leading the push to appropriate the money for the medical school.

Medina, the author of Tuesdays bill, is a teacher union member and marched with AFSCME picket lines at UC Riverside. But with Pelote sitting beside him, Medina said his bill has nothing to do with UCs union troubles.

UC Riversides Interim Chancellor Jane Close Conoley was among a roomful of UC Riverside supporters who attended the Capitol hearing. Assemblyman Eric Linder, R-Corona, who represents part of Riverside, spoke in favor of Medinas measure and voted for it.

G. Richard Olds, the dean of the school of medicine, acknowledged the problems posed by the unions objections to the bill.

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AUSTIN (AP) A widely celebrated effort to open a medical school in the Rio Grande Valley won unanimous approval in the Texas House on Tuesday but not before a tense exchange over what impact the facility would have on a statewide doctor shortage.

The bill that would open a medical school as early as 2016 along the underserved Texas border is among the least controversial measures in the Legislature. Gov. Rick Perry has backed the idea, and a Senate version easily cleared that chamber last week.

Yet as the House took its turn to vote, Republican Rep. Sarah Davis of Houston sought a reality check about what dent the yet-to-be-named medical school would make on a physician crunch in Texas.

The Texas Medical Association and other trade groups warn that the rapidly growing state is not churning out enough doctors to serve 25 million residents and counting. The bill that unanimously passed in the House on Tuesday is carried by Democratic Rep. Rene Oliveria, who said the medical school would add nearly 150 residency slots in the short term.

When Oliveria suggested that Davis didn't understand the proposal, she swiftly interrupted him.

"I was here to be in support of your bill, and not for you to condescend to me," Davis said. "My concern is that I don't want anyone in this House chamber to think that because of this new medical school we're in any way going to solve the doctor, physician shortage that we have in this state."

Oliveria said beefing up the number of residency slots can be achieved through separate legislation. Supporters of the medical school point to research showing that about 70 percent of doctors wind up practicing in the state where they complete their residency.

The University of Texas System already has pledged $100 million for the project. The bill would also combines UT campuses in Edinburg and Brownsville with a Harlingen health center that is currently operated by the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio.

The new university also would gain access to the state's Permanent University Fund the endowment that manages billions of dollars to support higher education.

The new university is projected to enroll 28,000 students, employ 7,000 people and generate $11 million in research expenditures.

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) A widely celebrated effort to open a medical school in the Rio Grande Valley won unanimous approval in the Texas House on Tuesday but not before a tense exchange over what impact the facility would have on a statewide doctor shortage.

The bill that would open a medical school as early as 2016 along the underserved Texas border is among the least controversial measures in the Legislature. Gov. Rick Perry has backed the idea, and a Senate version easily cleared that chamber last week.

Yet as the House took its turn to vote, Republican Rep. Sarah Davis of Houston sought a reality check about what dent the yet-to-be-named medical school would make on a physician crunch in Texas.

The Texas Medical Association and other trade groups warn that the rapidly growing state is not churning out enough doctors to serve 25 million residents and counting. The bill that unanimously passed in the House on Tuesday is carried by Democratic Rep. Rene Oliveria, who said the medical school would add nearly 150 residency slots in the short term.

When Oliveria suggested that Davis didn't understand the proposal, she swiftly interrupted him.

"I was here to be in support of your bill, and not for you to condescend to me," Davis said. "My concern is that I don't want anyone in this House chamber to think that because of this new medical school we're in any way going to solve the doctor, physician shortage that we have in this state."

Oliveria said beefing up the number of residency slots can be achieved through separate legislation. Supporters of the medical school point to research showing that about 70 percent of doctors wind up practicing in the state where they complete their residency.

The University of Texas System already has pledged $100 million for the project. The bill would also combines UT campuses in Edinburg and Brownsville with a Harlingen health center that is currently operated by the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio.

The new university also would gain access to the state's Permanent University Fund the endowment that manages billions of dollars to support higher education.

The new university is projected to enroll 28,000 students, employ 7,000 people and generate $11 million in research expenditures.

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At the mercy of a computer algorithm used to determine residency placements, 161 University of Michigan Medical School students emotions and nerves were torqued to the maximum Friday as they waited for noon.

At noon, they were handed a white envelope.

Inside that envelope lay the answer for which the students had been waiting for months: The placement for their residency, where they would spend the next chapter of their lives as doctors.

Its practice nationally to announce residency appointments on "Match Day," at the same time on the same day.

At U-M, its made into a celebration of the students accomplishments over their time at the school. If they choose, the students can announce their placements on stage during the event.

Pins graduating U-M Medical School students placed on a map Friday showing where they were placed for their residency. One-third will stay in Michigan -- the majority of which will be at U-M.

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Beaming and electrified with excitement, Andrea Knittel, 30, of Ferndale read off her placement in front of a crowd of her fellow graduates Friday afternoon at a conference room in Building 18 of the North Campus Research Complex.

It was her top choice: The University of California - San Francisco for a specialty in OB/GYN.

Knittel has been studying at U-M for 12 years. Starting as an undergraduate student, the top programs and experience kept her at U-M through her advanced studies, Knittel said.

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Almost 30 years ago, Trine Engebretsen made history and national headlines as Floridas first liver-transplant recipient. On Friday, Engebretsen added to her pioneering life story as she joined 32 other Florida International University students in the schools first graduating medical school class.

With graduation only a month away, Friday was Match Day, an annual ritual that takes place simultaneously in medical schools around the country.

Each school structures its event differently, but the common thread is this: Match Day is when graduating med school students are paired with the teaching hospitals where they will spend the next few years as residents. Students publicly read their match aloud by opening an envelope during a ceremony that combines graduation day euphoria with Academy Awards-type suspense.

For FIU where hundreds of students, family members, and administrators gathered in a balloon-decorated auditorium it was a test of whether the brand-new medical school would be well received by the greater healthcare community. With FIU achieving 100 percent graduate placement (often with students landing their first or second choice), that answer was a resounding yes. When announcing their match onstage, students frequently thrust their hands in the air in celebration.

Nationally, about 93 percent of medical students land a Match Day residency.

For Engebretsen, it was the story of a life come full circle. It was while at FIU that the 31-year-old woman from Fort Lauderdale discovered she not only wanted to pursue a career in medicine, but she wanted to be a surgeon one day she plans to perform the same liver transplant operation that saved her own life as a child.

Im able to pay it forward and give back in a new way, and I really like that, Engebretsen said. She is headed to Medical Center of Central Georgia.

Her husband, Ryan, received a liver transplant in 2008. The pair met while serving as mentors for a website that counsels families affected by liver disease.

Nineteen months ago, Engebretsen gave birth to a son, Andersen. It was a high-risk pregnancy, and its success was noteworthy enough that the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center held a news conference pronouncing him the first baby born to two liver transplant recipients.

FIUs 33 graduating students had a total of five babies while in med school, with a sixth on the way. Inexplicably, all the babies were boys another medical rarity. The chances of having six boys in a row are only about 1.5 percent, said J. Patrick OLeary, executive associate dean of clinical affairs for FIUs med school. But OLeary said it was the students strong academic performance as evidenced by their Match Day success that really stands out.

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Bill would add 40 slots at U. medical school

The University of Utah Medical School is on course to add 20 new slots for students in the coming year and 20 more the following year under a bill moving through the Legislature.

The new positions will cost $6.5 million in the first year and a total of $10 million in the second phase, bringing the total number of medical students in the program to 122.

"Access to this sort of knowledge is a precious commodity. Its an expensive commodity, Ill grant you that, but its precious," said Rep. Michael Kennedy, R-Alpine, who is a doctor. "More important than that is the ability to take this knowledge and use it for the benefit of our citizens."

The bill passed the House 70-4. The Senate still has to agree to an amendment added to the House staggering the 40 new slots before the bill goes to the governor.

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Johns Hopkins University's medical school fell one spot to No. 3 in the nation, while its education school rose to No. 2, according to the latest U.S. News and World Report graduate school rankings.

The medical school ranked behind those of Harvard University and Stanford University among the top institutions for medical research. University of Maryland School of Medicine ranked No. 37.

Other Maryland institutions to rank among the top 10 in their disciplines were the University of Maryland, Baltimore's Francis King Carey School of Law's part-time program, the University of Maryland, College Park's library sciences school, Johns Hopkins' public health and nursing schools and the Maryland Institute College of Art's fine arts program.

The rankings appeared in the magazine's 2014 Best Graduate Schools Rankings released Tuesday. Ranking criteria vary by discipline, but are generally based on admissions selectivity and expert opinions on program quality, according to a U.S. News news release.

The medical school rankings weigh in assessments by peer academic officials and residency program directors, research activity in total and per faculty member, admissions selectivity, students' MCAT scores and undergraduate GPAs, and student-to-faculty ratios.

"We consider it an honor to be consistently ranked among the very top medical schools in the nation," Hopkins spokeswoman Ellen Beth Levitt said. "Small point differences from year-to-year can account for changes in a school's specific ranking."

The education school at Hopkins rose four spots to lag behind only Vanderbilt University for its graduate studies. That was after rising from No. 18 to No. 6 in the 2013 rankings. The education school launched as its own entity in 2007, housed before that along with what is now the university's Carey Business School.

Maryland programs appeared on the following lists:

Engineering: University of Maryland, College Park, down one spot to No. 19; Johns Hopkins, up one spot to No. 25.

Business: University of Maryland, College Park, No. 37.

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When Robert Cooper was growing up in Edgewood, Texas, he liked his neighborhood family doctor so much that by the time he got into medical school in 2010, he already knew he wanted to go into primary care.

"I used to always go to our family practice physician, so that's what I knew," says Cooper, 26, who also values "the flexibility of being able to work in a rural area."

It didn't hurt, either, that primary care doctors are so in demand that his medical school is speeding them into the workforce. The program Cooper enrolled in, an accelerated option at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine in Lubbock, will allow him to get his medical degree in three years rather than the usual four, provided he commits to primary care.

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"We have a shortage of physicians, particularly in primary care," says John Prescott, chief academic officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington, D.C., which projects the nation will have 45,000 too few primary care doctors by 2020. "This is one step forward in helping to alleviate that. I think we'll see other schools looking closely at this."

The school of medicine at Mercer University in Savannah, Ga., already offers a similar three-year M.D. degree, and Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Erie, Pa., offers a three-year program for osteopaths who have chosen family medicine and general internal medicine.

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How do you cram four years of intense learning into three? At Texas Tech and Mercer, the key is shortening the clinical rotations medical students experience to get trained in other specialties and focusing instead most of their real-world experience on family medicine.

"One of the reasons we can do this is a lot of the fourth year is elective--trying to decide what you want to go into, and doing audition rotations around the country," says Steven Berk, dean of the Texas Tech medical school. "The various competencies that are normally covered in the fourth year we cover in eight weeks."

That condensed schedule offers financial rewards, notes Robert Pallay, residency director and chair of family medicine at Mercer. Students "pay one year less of tuition, which saves $40,000 to $50,000," he says. "They get out a year earlier, so rather than making $50,000 as a resident, they [may] end up earning $200,000-plus as a regular doctor."

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State Sen. Richard Roth, D-Riverside, and Assemblyman Jose Medina, D-Riverside (Senate photo)

No votes were taken and no promises were made. But a pair of Riverside Democrats made their case Thursday to Senate budget writers that the 2013-14 spending plans needs to include $15 million for UC Riversides medical school.

Assemblyman Jose Medina and state Sen. Richard Roth, both Riverside Democrats elected in November, said the schools future depends on the state appropriating the money. Riverside County and other donors already have committed $18 million to the school.

Without the $15 million were talking about today, the community commitments associated with that may dry up, the preliminary accreditation that the medical school received will be pulled undoubtedly and the school will fail, Roth told the education subcommittee of the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee.

Each of the panels three members seemed to agree on the need for the school in the medically underserved Inland region but all stepped well short of pledging to support spending state money on it.

If I had it, it would be an easy call, said state Sen. Rod Wright, D-Inglewood. I dont think we have $15 million just sitting around unspent.

Roth and Medina are the latest Inland lawmakers to lobby for medical school money. In past years, state Sen. Bill Emmerson, Assemblyman Brian Nestande, and former Inland lawmakers Bob Dutton, John Benoit, Jeff Miller, Denise Moreno Ducheny and helped carry the schools water in Sacramento.

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The University of Texas would bring a new medical school to the border under a measure approved Wednesday by the Texas Senate.

In a 30-1 vote, lawmakers advanced a bill to combine campuses in Edinburg and Brownsville with a Harlingen health center currently operated by the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. The Texas House is expected to consider the proposal next week.

"Today is a historic day for the Rio Grande Valley," said Senator Eddie Lucio, a Democrat from Brownsville.

UT regents already have pledged $100 million to the project. Perhaps most importantly, the new university would gain access to the state's Permanent University Fund, the endowment that manages billions of dollars to support higher education.

Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, said the plan could transform the impoverished region, where doctors are in short supply.

"Education gives you the power to succeed," Hinojosa said.

The new university is projected to enroll 28,000 students, employ 7,000 people and generate $11 million in research expenditures.

Lucio said the university will foster new opportunities for commerce and scientific research around the nearby ports. Characterizing the project as a form of reparations, he heralded a "once in a lifetime" opportunity to build on the region's cultural heritage.

"Our demographics already offer a preview of what the nation's demographics will look like in a generation," he said. "Through our action today, we begin to correct generations of inequity."

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SACRAMENTO A pair of Riverside Democrats made their case Thursday to a panel of Senate budget writers that this years state spending plan needs to include $15 million for UC Riversides medical school.

The medical schools future depends on lawmakers appropriating the money, Assemblyman Jose Medina and state Sen. Richard Roth told the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committees education subcommittee.

Riverside County and other donors have committed $18 million to the school, which is scheduled to open later this year. Some of that money, though, hinges on the state funding, as does extending the schools accreditation next year.

Without the $15 million were talking about today, the community commitments associated with that may dry up, the preliminary accreditation that the medical school received will be pulled undoubtedly, and the school will fail, Roth testified.

There were no votes Thursday. The panels three members seemed to agree on the need for the school in the medically underserved Inland region but all stepped well short of pledging to support allocating state money to it.

The last four years, weve made some awful cuts that just tore at your heartstrings, state Sen. Rod Wright, D-Inglewood, told Roth and Medina. If I had it, it would be an easy call. I dont think we have $15 million just sitting around unspent.

Supporters say the school will address a severe shortage of primary-care physicians in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. The need will only grow as the state expands the low-income Medi-Cal program as part of the federal Affordable Care Act.

University officials and Inland lawmakers have tried since 2008 to secure ongoing state money for the school amid massive budget shortfalls. They received $10 million in 2010 but have come empty since then, forcing officials to postpone the schools first freshman class.

Im not sure that theres an understanding up here that the buildings are in place and how far along the medical school is at UC Riverside, Medina said after the hearing. Im a little surprised.

Another subcommittee member, state Sen. Mark Wyland, R-Escondido, said he supports the medical school.

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