OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two local University of Nebraska institutions have teamed up to create a program to diversify Omaha’s physician population.

The Urban Health Opportunities Program will provide tuition and other benefits to undergraduate students at the University of Nebraska at Omaha who want to be doctors in Omaha, particularly in the northeast and southeast parts of the city.

Those who meet the program’s requirements will be admitted into medical school at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

The program’s goal is to produce more physicians from minority groups, more who can speak foreign languages and more who have a passion for working in low-income areas.

The program’s leaders say it isn’t an affirmative action initiative but an effort to break the typical mold from which most physicians emerge.