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Support sought to start up local med school program
Financially starting and sustaining the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine Grand Junction Clinical Branch Campus is a priority, which is why school representatives were in town today to gain support for plans to test their programs this fall and graduate doctors interested in rural healthcare by 2013.
The university needs a one-time donation of $2 to $2.5 million to help fund, among other things, faculty hires.
Eventually, $3 to $4 million will be needed annually so the medical school could fully implement its new curriculum with 48 students at the Grand Junction campus by 2012.
Without state funding that timetable likely would change. The University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine cannot financially support a branch campus, said Dr. Richard Krugman, dean of the School of Medicine at CU Denver, which is why he and other representatives from the School of Medicine have turned to state legislators for help in securing state funding for a clinical branch.
“If we get nothing then we will have to raise the money,” Krugman said.
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