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Committee hears testimony supporting $1.5 million startup funds for rural residency expansion; bill laid over
Summary
Senate file 2516 would provide startup funding to expand rural residency training tied to the new CentraCare–University of Minnesota medical school; committee heard system and hospital testimony and laid the bill over.
Senate file 2516, a bill to provide funding for residency programs linked to the new CentraCare–University of Minnesota medical school, received testimony from the sponsor, university officials and CentraCare executives; the committee laid the bill over after testimony.
The bill requests a $1.5 million appropriation intended to help establish and expand residency slots focused on specialties identified as rural shortage areas: family medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, internal medicine and general surgery. Supporters said creating residency training in or near rural…
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