This (medical programs at smaller state schools) will become more common over the next decade. The broader structure necessary for medical schools isn’t easy to rapidly scale up at long established campuses. They’re often in urban areas and adding students means adding buildings, faculty and hospital capacity. Creating new programs is cheaper and has the added benefit of helping underserved areas which may lack many specialities. There’s opportunity to save more money and ease the need to hire experienced administrators by having a larger flagship school handle the upper level administration.
