Medical school at URI could alleviate doctor shortage, aid economy, feasibility study finds

Students walk past Lippitt Hall on the University of Rhode Island’s Kingston campus. (Photo by Catherine Scott/URI photo)

A public medical school could generate nearly $1.5 billion for Rhode Island’s economy within its first decade and help shore up the state’s primary care doctors.

That’s the key takeaway of a roughly nine-month feasibility study commissioned by a special legislative commission…

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