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MEDIA ADVISORY
DORIS MATSUI, UC DAVIS MEDICAL STUDENTS TO HELP DEDICATE NEW SACRAMENTO TEACHING FACILITY
For the first time, all UC Davis medical school students will be based in Sacramento
December 5, 2006
| WHAT: |
Grand opening and official dedication of the state-of-the-art, $46.2 million, 121,000-square-foot UC Davis Health System Education Building and F. William Blaisdell, M.D., Medical Library |
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| WHEN: | Monday, Dec. 11, 2006 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. |
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| WHERE: | 45th and X Streets, Sacramento | |
| BACKGROUND: | The state-of-the-art building is intended as a place where students, faculty, medical staff and visitors can engage in academic exchange, health-care research and clinical practice. It will accommodate students from all four years of the medical school class, a first in the UC Davis School of Medicine's 40-year history. Before now, first- and second-year medical students have studied in facilities on the Davis campus while third- and fourth-year students have trained at the Sacramento campus. Offering all four years of medical school in a single location adjacent to the medical center and medical research laboratories will enhance students' clinical and research experience and interaction with patients and physician-scientists. | |
| WHO: |
Medical school students; F. William Blaisdell, one of the fathers of modern trauma care; university and health system leadership; U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui |
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| VISUALS & INTERVIEWS: |
Medical student procession (9 a.m.); dedication of the Plane Tree, propagated from a sapling from the Isle of Cos in Greece and said to be a direct genetic descendant of the tree under which Hippocrates taught; student-led tours of the new building; Sacramento Pipe Band; UC Davis all-pediatrician quartet |