Applications are now open for the new medical school run as a joint venture between Seton Hall University and Hackensack Meridian Health in New Jersey, with the goal of stopping new physicians from exiting the state after graduation.
The Wall Street Journal reports its first class, which will begin studying in July, will be made up of 55 students—a drop in the bucket considering the state is estimated to be short 3,000 doctors by 2020.
“We’ve seen a huge exodus from New Jersey with medical students receiving education out of state,” said Hackensack co-CEO Robert Garrett. “We’re hoping to reverse a talent drain.”
Future classes will grow to about 150 students, occupying 100,000 square feet over 17 acres in Nutley, New Jersey, about 12 miles away from Manhattan. It’s also the first private medical school to open in New Jersey in six decades and will be the only one in the state.
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