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Med school moving in, bulking up

UC Davis plans $35M expansion of brand-new education building
Sacramento Business Journal - December 8, 2006
by Kathy Robertson
Staff Writer
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Even as University of California Davis prepares to open a $46 million medical-education building at its Sacramento medical-center campus, planners are working to expand the new space by one-third to make room for more students and programs.

The university's $35 million expansion plan would include a 40,000-square-foot addition to the new building, which opens this month. The addition would serve as a statewide telecommunications hub to support medical care in rural areas. It would also have an expanded 'virtual care' center to allow med students to practice on robots before they work on patients.

The big plans are part of a much broader vision for the University of California system to train many more healthcare professionals to serve a growing need.

The UC Davis School of Medicine will formally move from Davis to Sacramento next month, bringing all th"