It’s Thursday, October 17th. I’m Natalie Gray, and here’s your local news from the Modesto Bee. A coalition for medical education convened in Modesto yesterday and discussed what it will take to establish a University of California medical school serving the San Joaquin Valley. Once proposed as a medical school at UC Merced, the plan would commit UC facilities in Merced and Fresno for a medical school to address a severe physician shortage in the San Joaquin Valley.