Despite all the bounty that the Central Valley provides, it’s no secret that the region has long been plagued with a shortage of professional education opportunities, large-scale economic drivers and health care providers, specifically physicians. In one of the largest and richest states, Central Valley residents have grown accustomed to...
UCSF Fresno Announces Newest Medical Residents, And They Are PRIME
Eight medical school graduates from the Central Valley, including two who got undergraduate degrees at Fresno State and Fresno Pacific, learned by simultaneous emails Friday that they have been chosen for medical residency programs in California. Normally the "Match Day" announcements are in-person celebrations, but this year they had to...
We're Going to Get a Public Medical School, Costa Vows
Congressman Jim Costa says there finally is enough political will and money to open a long-needed publicly owned medical school in the San Joaquin Valley. Last week, Costa (D-Fresno) introduced the "Expanding Medical Education Act of 2020" in Congress. The goal is to leverage federal, state and private dollars to...
In Fresno, Legislators Hear Solutions to Doctor Shortages
Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into a law a bill that will allow illegal immigrants between the ages of 19-25 to receive Medi-Cal benefits. That will add an estimated 90,000 to the California health care rolls, at a cost of $98 million to taxpayers. Where will the doctors come...
New Medical School Offers Peek at Its State-of-the-Art Technology
Greater Fresno's first four-year medical school is looking to make a dent in the Valley's chronic shortage of doctors. The privately funded College of Osteopathic Medicine will open its Clovis campus to students in 2020. Dr. John Graneto, the school's dean, believes that many future physicians who earn their degrees at...