Work continues on $300M Medical Education Building at UC Merced to train future doctors

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- As UC Merced students returned for the archetypal time of the autumn semester Wednesday, operation crews continued enactment connected the university's caller Medical Education Building.

The four-story, 200,000-square-foot installation volition location instructional and probe spaces, world offices and the campus' B.S. to M.D. Pathway program. The gathering is expected to unfastened successful autumn 2026, with the archetypal aesculapian students starting classes determination successful 2027.

"We already person our archetypal 2 cohorts of B.S. to M.D.," Chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz said. "They'll decorativeness their bachelor's of subject present and instantly statesman aesculapian schoolhouse successful this gathering successful the autumn of 2027."

About 9,000 students started classes this week, including the 3rd cohort successful the pathway program. Muñoz said the installation volition assistance code the shortage of wellness attraction workers successful the Central Valley.

"We're going to absorption connected superior attraction physicians and radical who are from the Valley," helium said. "The anticipation is that they enactment successful the Valley to attraction for the Valley."

Construction began successful May 2024. Dustin Noji, UC Merced's manager of admissions, said the task is progressing well.

"They're getting immoderate of the operation up close now," Noji said. "We're seeing a batch of alloy girders travel up."

Noji says determination is excitement surrounding the project. The $300 cardinal task volition not lone bid aboriginal healthcare workers but besides grow UC Merced's biomedical probe capabilities.

"They're going to person a batch of unsocial opportunities," Noji said. "Things similar further probe opportunities and the quality to prosecute with wellness attraction faculty."

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