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New UMN-Duluth Medical School Program a ‘Stepping Stone’ for Native American Students

Mar 06, 2023 09:14AM ● By Content Editor
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By Stacy Thacker - Native News Online - March 1, 2023

The University of Minnesota Medical School in Duluth received a $750,000 funding injection to launch a new program dedicated to recruiting and supporting Native American medical students in the Upper Midwest.

The funds from the Genentech Innovation Fund will help create and support operations of the Gateways to Medicine and Research Master of Science degree program, which will begin in the Fall of 2023.


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