New medical school in New Jersey
New Jersey faces a physician shortage expected to grow to 3,000 in the next two years. Hackensack Meridian Health and Seton Hall University hope to help stem that deficit with the launch of the state's first private med school in more than 60 years. Seton Hall President Mary Meehan said she imagines how her university's alumni who went on to or aspired to become doctors might've thrived at this Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall, which plans to pair every med student with a couple of families in the community to meet with and counsel throughout their years as a student.