12.2.11 UL may soon partner with the state's flagship university to create a medical school program that will allow students to complete a MD program in three years.

Carolyn Bruder, UL's interim provost and vice president of academic affairs, said the new partnership would be an expansion of a current program allowing LSU med students to complete the first two years of medical school in New Orleans before coming to Lafayette to spend two years doing clinicals at University Medical Center on West Congress Street.