Duquesne University’s long-planned college of medicine received a financial boost Tuesday with a $2 million gift from the Richard King Mellon Foundation.
University officials said the grant will help build the foundation of a new college of medicine designed to graduate primary care doctors to help alleviate the shortage of physicians in medically underserved urban and rural communities.
“The data makes clear that one of the most powerful things we can do to improve health and well-being in our disadvantaged communities — both urban and rural — is to create greater access in those communities to primary care physicians,” said Sam Reiman, director of the Richard King Mellon Foundation. “Duquesne University’s proposed new medical school is laser focused on exactly this great need, and the foundation is pleased to support their efforts.”
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