The University of California, Irvine School of Medicine is spending $40.5 million on a medical education building.
UCI officials, including Chancellor Michael Drake and David Bailey, vice chancellor for health affairs, plan to introduce the 65,000-square-foot facility Friday in a groundbreaking ceremony.
The building’s scheduled to be finished in November 2009. In a release, UCI said it would be the “hub of all educational activities” for its more than 400 medical students.
Features include a telemedicine facility to train students who will be delivering healthcare to underserved agricultural and remote regions of California. The building will also house UCI’s Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community, which specializes in training doctors who will serve Hispanic communities.
A majority of the building’s funding,$35 million,comes from a voter-approved state bond.
The medical education building isn’t the only health-related project the university is pursuing. Work continues on its $427 million New University Hospital that will supplant the existing UCI Medical Center in Orange.
