MEDICAL EDUCATION


Texas first Legislature preserves training spots for Texans


The American University of the Caribbean (pictured above) tried to buy up core clinical training spots in Texas for the foreign medical school’s students. A new law stopped that from happening and preserves the precious spots for a growing number of Texas medical students already vying for them.


“This is about


prioritizing Texas medical students.”


BY AMY LYNN SORREL Texas medical students come first. That’s what the Texas Medi- cal Association and the state’s medical schools told the 2013 legislature. Lawmakers heard them and passed legislation barring foreign medical schools from buying up core clinical training spots at Texas teaching hospitals and institutions. Those clerkships are reserved for third- and fourth-year medical students to begin


their clinical training. With most of them at or nearing capacity, however — and a queue of new students as Texas medical schools expand enrollments — there’s little room to spare for foreign medical schools to scoop them up, says David Wright,


October 2013 TEXAS MEDICINE 49


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