New California Medical School Will Waive Tuition For Students In Its First Five Graduating Classes.

reports that “Kaiser Permanente, the California-based health system that is preparing to open one of the few American medical schools not connected to a university, was set to announce Tuesday that it would waive tuition for every student in its first five graduating classes.” Kaiser’s “goal is to keep students from forgoing lower-paying specialties like family medicine because of crushing debt, or foreclosing the option of medical school altogether because of the cost.” The medical school will “start accepting applications in June and open in Pasadena in the summer of 2020.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/health/kaiser-medical-school-free-.html