our vision

Making medical education more efficient and less expensive.

Campp’s purpose

The Consortium of Accelerated Medical Pathway Programs (CAMPP) is an organization of medical schools in the United States and Canada that have developed 3-year or other accelerated curricula that lead to the MD degree. Representatives from member schools work together to promote, enhance, and evaluate the processes and outcomes related to accelerated medical training. Through collaboration among our diverse member schools, CAMPP seeks to improve physician education across the continuum of learning through scholarship, mentoring of new programs, and professional development.

The CAMPP consortium was created in 2015 with eight medical schools, made possible by a grant from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation to NYU Langone School of Medicine. The consortium aims to study several aspects of accelerated MD degree programs, including financial, regulatory, and competency matters. The group also offers guidance to other medical schools seeking to develop such programs.

Goals of the Three-Year MD Consortium

Consortium member schools’ accelerated programs vary significantly, but all focus on reducing the nationwide physician shortage and alleviating student debt.

The consortium’s goals include the following:

To study and develop best practices in the implementation of accelerated MD degree programs
To understand the programs’ impact by tracking student outcomes
To describe effective mentoring for students
To promote the concept of medical education across the undergraduate–graduate continuum
To collaborate with licensing and regulatory agencies on residency placement
To stimulate a national discussion on accelerated pathways in medical education
To provide information that medical schools may use in building their own accelerated programs

Many consortium member schools offer students conditional acceptance into residency programs at their own institutions, thereby promoting continuous learning and competency.

Participating schools have fundamental aspects in common that serve as critical points of collaboration. These include the following:

Federal and national regulatory requirements, including guidelines related to state licensing, the National Resident Matching Program. and the Liaison Committee on Medical Education.
A need for improved assessment and competency measures across the undergraduate medical education–graduate medical education continuum for both three- and four-year students
A need for more evidence-based information upon which to make school-level programmatic and assessment decisions

CAMPP Board of Directors

Chair/ Membership

Joan Cangiarella, MD
NYU
Joan.Cangiarella@nyulangone.org

Secretary/ Treasurer

Catherine Coe, MD
University of North Carolina
catherine_coe@med.unc.edu

Research/ Scholarship Chair

Shou Ling Leong, MD
Penn State
sleong@pennstatehealth.psu.edu

Annual Meeting/ Program Chair

Kristen Rundell, MD
University of Arizona
kristenrundell@arizona.edu

Website/ Communications Chair

Betsy Jones, EdD
Texas Tech University HSC
betsy.jones@ttuhsc.edu

Member Schools

Founding Member Schools

At the start of the grant from the Macy Foundation in 2015, the following eight medical schools with accelerated medical pathways were invited to join the Consortium:

1. New York University School of Medicine

2. McMaster University

3. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

4. Mercer University School of Medicine

5. University of California Davis

6. Medical College of Wisconsin

7. University of Louisville

8. Penn State College of Medicine

Attendees at the 2024 Annual Conference hosted by UNC

CAMPP at STFM Medical Student Education 2023

The CAMPP Consortium was represented at the 2023 STFM Medical Student Education Conference in New Orleans:

Leong SL, Rundell K, Coe C, Jones BG, Cangiarella J. Graduates of 3-year Accelerated MD Program: Journey of Their Training and Practice Patterns. Poster Presentation, 2023 STFM Conference on Medical Student Education in New Orleans, LA, January 26-29, 2023.