NOT ENOUGH DOCTORS IN IOWA: Should UI accept more Iowans into its medical college?

NOT ENOUGH DOCTORS IN IOWA: Should UI accept more Iowans into its medical college?

How can Iowa keep more physicians in the state after medical school? State Rep. Ann Meyer hopes a new bill, requiring the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine to prioritize applicants from the state, will help. Eighty percent of its students would need to have Iowa roots. The same stipulations would apply to the University of Iowa dental college. "It's not out of the norms because other states do this, too," Meyer said. "Is 80% the righ…