LAS VEGAS -- There are now serious plans in the works to create a new medical school at University of Nevada Las Vegas. <\/p>\n
Educators are meeting almost daily to work out how to get it built. They say this will lead to dramatic changes in medical education, research, training and patient care. <\/p>\n
Local students who want to become medical doctors oftenget their undergraduate degree at UNLV but then head north to UNR to continue their medical education. <\/p>\n
If UNLV builds a medical school, the hope is to cultivate doctors who will train locally and practice locally. <\/p>\n
Doctor Matthew Schwartz, who practices at Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada, is home grown talent. He went to Valley High School,UNLV and UNR before returningto Las Vegasto practice. <\/p>\n
\"I wish I could have stayed here for medical school,\" Dr. Schwartz said. <\/p>\n
Now a radiation oncologist, he supports bringing a state-run medical school to UNLV. <\/p>\n
\"We obviously have a great need for good doctors here in Las Vegas. Medical students, more residencies, would really bring more good doctors to Nevada and that's what we need,\" he said. <\/p>\n
While some medical experts have expressed concern that there is not enough students to fill a new medical school, economists say otherwise. <\/p>\n
Mary Riddel, the chair of economics at UNLV,says the valley is really lacking in the medical services industry. She says a new medical school would help turn the economy around by bringing nearly 2,000 jobs and anestimated $1.2 billion to the Las Vegas economy. <\/p>\n
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