A new program in Peoria is training the next generation of practitioners in a medical field facing incredibly high demand: anesthesiology.

The partnership between OSF Saint Francis Medical Center and the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria welcomes its first sixteen residents this July. Those residents will spend four years in the program. Over the next four years, Sparrow says he believes additional classes will bring the number up to 32.

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