With a second for-profit medical school opening in Utah, the state will be training hundreds of new doctors a year

Slots for medical residencies will likely become the new chokepoint for increasing the number of doctors in the Mountain West.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Taylor Purcell, a student who's starting in Noorda College of Osteopathic Medicine's inaugural class in Provo in a few weeks, is photographed at his American Fork home on Wednesday, June 23, 2021.