Article updated: 2/19/2013 8:40 PM

Licensing delays could set back doctors-in-training

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Marc Lim, a senior medical student at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, poses in a campus classroom Tuesday in Chicago. Hundreds of medical students like Lim may not be able to start their residency programs in Illinois this summer because of imminent licensing delays.

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Hundreds of highly qualified medical students could be absent from Illinois teaching hospitals starting in July because of delays in processing their licenses, the result of a dispute between lawmakers and the medical community about how to fund the state office that issues licenses for physicians and doctors-in-training.