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V O L . X X X I N O. X I V J U N E 3 0 , 2 0 2 5 12 H I G H E R E D U C AT I O N / P RO F E S S I O N A L D E V E L O P M E N T F O C U S W hen Ines Castro-Rosillo fin- ishes medical school in 2028, she is aiming for a career in women's health, while classmate Jim Barry is drawn to family medicine and the treatment of kidney diseases. "My goal would be to open my own private practice somewhere in Maine near the coast, and one of my focuses would be to spend more time on patient education," Barry says as he wraps up his summer of birding two-thirds of the way to his 100-species target. Both are about to start their second year at the new Portland home of the University of New England's College of Osteopathic Medicine, which offers two years of classroom instruc- tion followed by two years of clinical clerkships. With a larger footprint in Maine's largest city, the Biddeford- based university will graduate 200 doc- tors every year — boosting the annual class size by 35 to take better aim at the growing physician shortage. University of New England medical students Ines Castro-Rosillo and Jim Barry demonstrate how to test for the passive range of motion of a hip in the new Harold and Bibby Alfond Center for Health Sciences on the Portland campus 'BIBBY' BUILDING IN A NUTSHELL OFFICIAL NAME: Harold and Bibby Alfond Center for Health Sciences SIZE: 110,000 square feet CONSTRUCTION COST: $93 million DESIGNER: SMRT Architects and Engineers, Portland BUILDER: Ledgewood Construction, South Portland FUNDING: $30 million from the Harold Alfond Foundation; $5 million in federal funding; and the rest from fundraising and private donations. P H O T O S / T I M G R E E N WAY BUILDING THE DOCTOR PIPELINE With new Portland home, Maine's only medical school tackles physician shortage B y R e n e e C o r d e s

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