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Special Report - Special Report - February 14, 2013
WSU Spokane readies for second-year med school students
Supporters lobby to make full program permanent at Riverpoint Campus

By Mike McLean
Of the Journal of Business

Ken Roberts, director of the Spokane unit of WWAMI, is part of the team of educators here that is working to develop the curriculum for the second-year medical program.
Ken Roberts, director of the Spokane unit of WWAMI, is part of the team of educators here that is working to develop the curriculum for the second-year medical program.
—Staff photo by Mike McLean
Thanks to a two-year pilot program set to start in the fall, medical students in all four years of medical school soon will receive education and training based at the Riverpoint Campus, in Spokane. Even before that pilot program starts, public and private funding efforts are under way to make it permanent.

Under the pilot program, 20 students will begin their second year of medical school here in September, with 20 more second-year students to attend beginning in September 2014, s...


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