Expanding Medical Education Act

This bill sets up federal grants to help colleges start, improve, or expand medical schools (including osteopathic schools) and branch campuses. It aims these funds at places with no medical school and communities that don’t have enough doctors. Minority-serving colleges get priority, and awards may be spread fairly across different regions of the country.

Colleges must use the money to recruit, enroll, and keep medical students—especially students from disadvantaged, rural, low‑income, and first‑generation backgrounds—and to build training that focuses on serving rural and underserved communities. They may also use funds to plan and build new schools, work toward accreditation, hire diverse faculty, support educational programs, and modernize buildings and equipment .

• Who is affected: Colleges and universities; students seeking MD or DO degrees; communities with too few doctors; minority-serving institutions.
• What changes: New grants to create or expand medical schools and branch campuses, with priority for underserved areas and places without a school; allowed uses include student recruitment and support, building and accrediting schools, hiring faculty, and updating facilities and curriculum focused on underserved care .
• Oversight and transparency: Schools must report each year on what they do with the funds. The health department must report every 5 years on results—like where schools were built, student outcomes, workforce impact, and access in underserved areas—and post those reports online.
• Funding: Congress authorizes “such sums as may be necessary” to run the program.