El Paso medical school offers lessons for Austin's effort - Austin American-Statesman

The Rock Kiss bar, with its neon pink walls, stands a few steps from the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, the state's newest medical school. Although a sign advertises happy hour, the bar is shuttered, having been acquired by the growing school to make way for a parking lot, trees and shrubs.

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The Foster School of Medicine, a unit of the Texas Tech University System's Health Sciences Center, is in many ways the jewel of what officials have dubbed the Medical Center of the Americas, a public-private complex east of downtown that could eventually encompass 440 acres. The school seated its first class in 2009.

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