Glendale, Ariz.-based Midwestern University and Mesa, Ariz.-based Mountain Vista Medical Center are set to launch a fourth postdoctoral fellowship together in July 2016, according to the Phoenix Business Journal.
Their newest residency, a gastroenterology fellowship, has been approved by the American Osteopathic Association. This partnership and others between Midwestern and Mountain Vista, which include family medicine, internal medicine and general surgery residencies, are meant to help address the state's physician shortage, according to the report.
Midwestern University data shows 97 percent of Arizona College Osteopathic Medicine students who are Arizona natives and complete postdoctoral training in-state, stay in-state to practice, according to the report.
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