Betsy Goebel Jones, EdD
For the past 5 years, I have been intimately involved with the Family Medicine Accelerated Track, or FMAT, at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine (TTUSOM), so I’m always interested when an item lands in my Twitter feed or inbox about 3-year medical school curricula. As a result, it’s been hard to ignore the irony of not one but two Perspective articles in the September 19 New England Journal of Medicine (by Abramson et al.) and (Goldfarb and Morrison) and at least one prominent blog post (by Pauline Chen), all prompted by NYU’s launch of a 3-year pathway to the MD—and just as I was preparing for the AAMC meeting in Philadelphia that had as its theme “The Change Imperative.”
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