UNE prominent in Maine Sunday Telegram story on health care reform

Regional media covering healthcare reform continue to take note of UNE's leadership role in healthcare education. A Maine Sunday Telegram story on March 28, 2010 featured photos of UNE College of Osteopathic Medicine students and faculty on the front page and focused heavily on an interview with COM Dean Marc Hahn. Hahn noted that the state has a current shortage of 100 primary care physicians and that expanded access to health care will tighten that shortage. Hahn explained that UNECOM has been at the forefront of addressing these problems. Fifteen percent of Maine's primary care doctors, and 25 percent of those practicing in rural Maine, are UNE graduates. UNECOM is now planning to expand both faculty size and classroom space in order to increase the class size from 124 to 225 within five years. The Telegram story was picked up by the Associated Press. UNE was also featured in earlier stories on NECN and WGME TV.

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The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.