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New Jersey will see alterations to the ways its dental schools are set up, according to a new proposal.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced the reorganization on Wednesday. Under the new plan, Rutgers University will add a medical school.
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey will be split up into Rutgers and Rowan universities throughout the state. The remnants of the Newark campus will eventually be called the New Jersey Health Sciences University.
Adding a medical school will enhance Rutgers’ prestige and the way it’s viewed.
UMDNJ, which currently has eight different schools, three campuses and the largest charity care hospital in New Jersey, had become too big, according to Christie.
There are other changes in the works if this one eventually gets enacted.
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