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Every primary care practice is like a new small business with a $1 million annual impact.
This is not for us, but for California.
The Mission: Improve the health of Inland Southern California.
It takes years to produce a doctor. We must begin soon.
Doctors who are sensitive to their patients' cultures and values.
Why Inland Southern California Needs a School of Medicine
The School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside will serve the Inland Southern California community in many ways. Here are just a few:
- To expand and diversify the physician workforce.
- To train doctors who are culturally competent.
- To replace baby-boom era physicians who are retiring in droves.
- To develop research and health care delivery programs that will improve the health of medically underserved populations.
- To attract high quality physicians and researchers to excellent educational and research settings.
- To encourage medical residents to settle in the area, adding to our physician workforce.
- To expand technology transfer capacity.
Education for Tomorrow's Health Care
The University of California, Riverside is developing a medical school with research, teaching and service programs to improve the health of Californians, with special attention to the needs of the diverse and growing Inland Southern California region.
Why a School of Medicine?
Once operating, a UCR School of Medicine will not only help meet the need for physicians in a medically underserved region, but also:
- Inland Southern California has too few physicians. If nothing is done, it will become harder and harder for average people to see a doctor promptly
- Inland Southern California residents will get a much-needed boost in life expectancy, infant health, in childhood immunization rates, in resources for the treatment of diabetes and other obesity-related conditions.
- The services provided by the doctors produced by the School of Medicine will elevate the quality of life for the people of the region.
- Doctors in the area means a boost in the tax base of our communities.
- Studies show that many doctors choose to work in the region where they received their training.