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Proposed KGI School of Community Medicine Featured in U.S. News & World Report

This article was written by Kaiser Health News and appeared on the U.S. News & World Report website on July 27, 2018. 

The Claremont Colleges plans to open a medical school, the fourth new campus designed to produce physicians for parts of Southern California struggling with shortages.

The KGI School of Community Medicine will focus on primary care and treating the growing Latino population in California, institute officials announced this week. The school hopes to hire its founding dean by next summer, and open a few years after that.

Administrators hope many of the graduates will stay to practice medicine in eastern Los Angeles County or the Inland Empire, an ethnically diverse region that encompasses Riverside and San Bernardino counties and is home to about 4 million people.

“Our goal is to recruit them from here, train them here and keep them here,” said Sheldon Schuster, president of KGI. The institute is part of the Claremont Colleges, a consortium of five undergraduate and two graduate institutions about 35 miles east of Los Angeles. The institute already has a pharmacy school.

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