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Article: Medical school might expand: WSU Spokane may add 20 students.
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- The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)
- Article date:
- June 9, 2006
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Byline: Tom Sowa
Jun. 9--If legislators agree they can afford the plan, Spokane will become home to first-year medical students in the fall of 2008.
Officials at the University of Washington School of Medicine confirmed Thursday the school would add 20 first-year students in Spokane. The program would be a joint effort between the UW and Washington State University Spokane.
"We did this because of the strong support we found in the community for this idea," said Dr. Tom Norris, vice dean of academic affairs at the UW medical school in Seattle.
Three years ago Spokane-area business and economic-development leaders visited Seattle, ...