Bill targets Caribbean medical school with eye on Texas - The Horn

For more than a year, a foreign medical school has been seeking approval to operate in Texas, and its controversial bid has overcome a number of roadblocks. This legislative session, a recently filed bill will put it to one more high-stakes test.

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"What extra room there is now has already been spoken for," Dr. Cynthia Jumper, the former head of the Texas Medical Association's Council on Medical Education and the chairwoman of the internal medicine department at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, told The Texas Tribune in 2011.

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