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Academic Expansion

Meeting the Needs of Connecticut’s Future

One of the key goals of the Bioscience Connecticut initiative is to attract more graduates to practice primary care medicine and dentistry in Connecticut. This will be achieved by increasing the enrollment of the UConn Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine by 30 percent and establishing a loan forgiveness program. This will provide better access and greater capacity to meet the increasing demand of Connecticut citizens for health care services by producing and retaining more physicians and dentists to practice in the state.

To meet the needs of students, new amenities will be added to the Health Center campus including classrooms of various sizes, lab space and more.

In addition, 68,000 square feet of dental clinic space will be relocated to the new Ambulatory Care Center, including clinical training areas for dental students and residents.