Monday, September 06, 2010
UK To Open Western Campus
KENTUCKY...
The University of Kentucky plans to open a western campus of its College of Medicine in Murray with the goal of having students enrolled there in 2014.
College of Medicine Dean Emery Wilson says the extension campus will start up in 2012Students in the program will attend school at the university's Lexington campus for their first two years of medical school and then transition to the campus in Murray for their third and fourth years.
The program is the result of a formal agreement with Murray State University. The University of Kentucky also has a similar arrangement in Morehead, where students are entering their second year of having students on campus.
Wilson says Kentucky is currently 2,300 physicians below the national average and that the deficit is especially high in rural areas.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 9:57 AM 
