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Lawmakers told med school stays put

Friday, March 10, 2000 | 12:08 p.m.

Dr. Robert Miller, on the job for three months at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, says the Reno school is an "integral part" of the total medical education program.

But there are "more opportunities for growth" in southern Nevada, where the population is underserved by physicians, he added.

Northern Nevada legislators had feared the school on the University of Nevada, Reno's campus might close.

"I don't want to get rid of what we have," Sen. Bernice Mathews, D-Reno, said at a legislative meeting Tuesday.

Assemblywoman Vivian Freeman, D-Reno, a retired nurse, said she shared Mathews' concerns about possible closure of the Reno school, started in the 1960s and since expanded to Las Vegas.

Miller said having the campuses 450 miles apart "presents a challenge' to students, but added he would "not do any damage" to the Reno school.

He noted that the new dental school is being started in Las Vegas and a pharmacy school would probably be located in southern Nevada, where nearly 70 percent of the population resides.

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