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With Limited Federal Funding, Valley Struggles To Expand Medical Training Programs

As we reported earlier this summer, the Fresno area could soon be home to two medical schools. While that may seem like a great opportunity for creating home-grown doctors, research suggests local residencies and fellowships could be more important for keeping doctors here. But the Valley lags behind the state in those training opportunities, too. In the second installment of Struggling For Care , we learn how local health leaders are working hard to expand those positions—despite a 20-year-old federal law that puts a limit on funding for medical training. Community Regional Medical Center in downtown Fresno is a teaching hospital. Residents from UCSF Fresno go there for clinical hours in fields like family medicine, gastroenterology and psychiatry. They also come for skills training—like an emergency medicine lab, in which dozens of residents in scrubs are poking instruments into what look like long, pink cuts of butchered meat. They’re pig tracheas, and they double as human airways
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