PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A new report said the University of Rhode Island is "strategically positioned" to expand the state's primary care physician workforce by developing a public medical school, though there are still unanswered questions about how it would work.

The overview, authored by medical education consulting firm Tripp Umbach, was presented on Friday to the R.I. Senate's special legislative commission to study the state's health care workforce. Founder and president Paul Umbach said Friday's report was a "concept overview" and that a draft feasibility report would be done sometime this summer.

The Senate passed a resolution in June that created the 21-member panel, which is also tasked with analyzing the potential of establishing a medical school at URI.

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