Jeff Rudnicki attaches support brackets to the new Rutgers sign in 2013 when the university merged with the University of Medicine and Dentistry, bringing with it two medical schools in Newark and New Brunswick. Rutgers officials now want to merge the schools.Star-Ledger file photo
Rutgers University officials are moving forward with a long-debated proposal to merge its medical schools in Newark and New Brunswick to create one larger school, NJ Advance Media has learned.
Under the plan, expected to go before the university’s Board of Governors on July 10, New Jersey Medical School in Newark and Robert Woods Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick would be combined to become the Rutgers School of Medicine.
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