David Henzi, PhD, is the partnership
director for the Facilitated Acceptance to Medical Education (FAME) program developed by UT San Antonio (UTSA) and the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA). He says its ap- proach is basically a “3 + 4” program, “meaning that students would attend UTSA for three years, they would have to complete certain requirements, and at the end of that third year they would go to the health science center and begin medical school.” The FAME program would pre-
pare those students for medical school through two unique components — team-taught courses that utilize UTSA and UTHSCSA faculty to give under- graduate students a taste of the medi- cal education environment and gateway courses that would put a medical twist on courses that traditionally would not have a medical aspect.
The gateway courses would introduce
undergraduate students to diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and obesity, while also bringing in humanities components, as well, says Dr. Henzi, who also is direc- tor of the Office of Academic Enhance- ment in the medical school at UTHSCSA. “So they will learn not only about the disease base but also some of the socio- economic components of it as well, such as the ethical dilemmas associated with obesity, and professionalism and other sorts of humanities components,” he said.
Students in the pilot project would re- ceive a bachelor of science degree in bi- ology from UTSA after completing their first year of medical school and then get their medical degree three years later, Dr. Henzi says. He says the FAME project likely will enroll 30 UTSA freshmen in 2013 and might later add an additional 20 sophomores.
A partnership involving UT Austin, UT Southwestern, and UTHSC at Hous- ton also seeks to graduate physicians in seven years. And a partnership between UT Dallas and UT Southwestern plans to shorten training for some students to as little as six years by eliminating du- plication of some basic science courses that students take both as premedical students and in medical school, and
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