After several weeks of turmoil over funding the state’s largest medical school, all parties will soon return to the negotiating table.

Last week, Fairview Health Services and University of Minnesota Physicians, a nonprofit clinical practice for the faculty of the University of Minnesota Medical School, announced they had reached a deal to support physician training and academic health programs and fund the medical school for the next 10 years.

University officials criticized the proposal, arguing that they were excluded from the negotiations, while Attorney General Keith Ellison and representatives from Fairview and UMP worked on the agreement without involving the university’s Board of Regents.

Both Fairview and the Minnesota Attorney General's Office told MPR News that this agreement

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