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EDINBURG, Texas — Edinburg Mayor Richard H. Garcia and the City Council congratulate the UT System Board of Regents for moving forward with plans to construct a Medical School Campus in Edinburg. The regents approved the design plan and a preliminary doctor of medicine program during a regularly scheduled board meeting Wednesday and Thursday in Austin.
The plan calls for a $54 million, 88,000 sq. ft. building to be constructed adjacent to the existing Medical Research Building near the intersection of Sugar Road and Schunior Street on the University of Texas Pan American campus.
Mayor Garcia congratulates the UT System for moving forward. “We congratulate the UT System Regents for moving forward as they promised. Their actions are proof they are committed to seeing this project through.” Garcia says, today we are one step closer to opening the doors of a hometown medical school.
The medical school will include lecture halls, classrooms, an auditorium, a digital library, a clinical skills center, an anatomy teaching facility, preclinical M.D. Labs. It will also feature a student lounge and study space.
It will serve as the learning facility for years one & two for students seeking medical degrees.
Mayor Garcia says within the next two years, students interested in medicine will be able to pursue those careers without having to leave their families behind. He says they’ll also be able to practice here thus helping fill the large.
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