Building the doctor pipeline : with new Portland home, Maine's only medical school tackles physician shortage

Authors

Renee Cordes

Source

Mainebiz

Date

6-30-2025

Pages

12-15

Abstract

With University of New England's larger footprint in Portland, the Biddeford-based university will graduate 200 doctors every year- boosting the annual class size by 35 to take better aim at the growing physician shortage.

After freshly-minted doctors graduate from UNE, more than half go into primary care fields and four out of 10 establish their practices in rural areas.

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