#news Mission Hospital to become campus for UNC School of Medicine

ASHEVILLE Starting Monday, Asheville and Mission Hospital will officially become the Asheville Campus of the UNC School of Medicine, training four students during the last two years of their medical school experience. These students were selected on criteria that included academic excellence, previous life experiences in self-directed learning, and their interest in practicing medicine in a more rural setting. The four medical students will spend their first 12 weeks at Mission Hospital doing surgery and OB GYN rotations. In October, they will begin following patients with community attending physicians in their offices for family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, neurology and cardiology.... [read full story]                    

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