Texas Tech University is starting a three-year M.D. program.
Here's how it would work for students who want to enter family medicine in three years:
• First year: Curriculum would be the same.
• Summer after first year: Students would no longer get time off and instead would take a single course in family medicine that is normally part of the second year curriculum.
• Second year: Students take the normal curriculum, but add in (throughout the year) a clinical experience in family medicine (normally part of the third year).
• Third year: Students take regular rotations in fields such as internal medicine, pediatrics and psychiatry. In the eight-week rotation that would otherwise be used for family medicine, the students would take rotations in the parts of the fourth year deemed necessary: intensive care, neurology and geriatrics.
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