Future of Springfield's physician training program in jeopardy without stable funding

In the next two years, the University of Missouri School of Medicine planned to admit another 64 students into a relatively new physician training program in Springfield.

But with state funding up in the air, that is now in jeopardy.

"The goal is to have the four-year enrollment of the medical school to be around 128. We're about halfway there," Mun Choi, president of the University of Missouri System, told the News-Leader. "The question then becomes how many students should we accept for fall of 2018, given the cuts that we've experienced from the state."

In the state's 2018 budget, the entire $10 million earmarked for MU's Springfield Clinical Campus was withheld. The line item was zeroed out during a tight funding year that included back-to-back cuts for all of Missouri's public colleges and universities.

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