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I hope the new Virginia Tech Carilion Medical School is successful in its novel approach to teaching and learning. Getting medical students to see patients from the very beginning under expert supervision seems (to this layman) a good idea, as is the incentive of a scholarship for all first-year students. One of the things one hears about is the debt doctors accumulate during their years in medical school. I am not surprised that there were almost no new medical schools in the 1980s and 90s, when some existing ones were paid to keep student numbers down because of an over-supply of doctors. Now there is a shortage, especially of primary care physicians.
Incidentally the University of Massachusetts Medical school is located not in Amherst, where the flagship university of the system is, but in Springfield, a biotechnology hub.