MEDICAL EDUCATION


It’s about TIME UT System seeks to reinvent medical training


“What we’re looking at is a different approach that is much richer,


much more complex in terms of the preparation necessary to be a physician.”


BY KEN ORTOLON Dallas pathologist Thomas McConnell, MD, took an unusual path to medical school. In the late 1950s, he left Rice University without completing his undergraduate degree and enrolled at The University of Texas Southwestern Medi- cal School. Dr. McConnell says he made the decision because he was “out of money and had to shorten my education by any way possible.”


He was one of a handful of students in his class at UT Southwestern who had the


necessary prerequisites and who were allowed to enroll in medical school after only three years of college. He received his medical degree from UT Southwestern in 1962 after just seven years of higher education. Now, the UT System is launching pilot programs that could make that type of ac-


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