The California Medicine Scholars Program has enrolled 399 students across four regional hubs since 2022 to create a community college-to-medical school pathway addressing California's physician shortage, with UCR's School of Medicine leading the Inland Empire hub in a region that has just 41 doctors per 100,000 people.
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