Nearly 200 students will graduate Rutgers New Jersey Medical School a month early.

The soon-to-be graduates will be eligible for residencies to help fight the coronavirus.

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Dean Robert Johnson says they are ready to help the cause.

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is expected to announce similar measures.