Temple University has agreed to partner with New Jersey-based AtlantiCare to open a new $50 million medical school campus in Atlantic City, writes John George for the Philadelphia Business Journal.
The goal is to help address some of the physician pipeline challenges facing South Jersey and the Egg Harbor Township area that AtlantiCare is based in.
“We want to create our own narrative around physician education,” said AtlantiCare CEO Michael Charlton.
Temple and AtlantiCare are planning to partner up on new research and educational initiatives that they believe will result in better health outcomes for patients.
The South Jersey medical school will be Temple’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine’s third branch, as well as South Jersey’s third medical school.
Amy J. Goldberg, dean of the Katz School of Medicine, is a big advocate of this new partnership.
“To go to South Jersey and be able to develop another regional campus and hopefully uplift the community in Atlantic City was just a tremendous opportunity for us,” she said. “To be able to increase their pipeline of medical students, residents and faculty and help address the physician shortages that are coming seemed very exciting.”
The new medical school is expected to create 400 to 500 temporary construction jobs and several hundred more permanent jobs.
Read more about Temple and AtlantiCare’s partnership in New Jersey in the Philadelphia Business Journal.
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