texas tech university health sciences center
The Family Medicine Accelerated Track (FMAT) at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) is a 3-year curriculum that leads to the MD degree and links program graduates to family medicine (FM) residency in one of TTUHSC’s programs.
The FMAT program:
Was designed to be the very exemplar of a new model in medical education, with a particular focus on expanding the primary care physician workforce by accelerating the pathway, reducing student debt, and increasing the visibility and status of family medicine within the academic health center
Was approved by the LCME in 2010 and launched during the 2010-2011 academic year
Has served as a national model for innovations that address the need for curricular flexibility and learner-centered
FMAT students complete the same curriculum in the first three years of medical school as do their peers in the traditional curriculum, with some exceptions:
FMAT students have an 8-week systems-based experience after the MS1 year, a longitudinal FM clerkship in the MS2 year, and an 8-week capstone course.
Students spend their MS3 year on the TTUHSC campus where they will be residents, completing coursework in time to begin residency on July 1.
FMAT training began for the first class of students in June 2011; those first 8 students graduated in May 2013, began residency the following July, and completed their third and final year of FM residency in June 2016.
To date, 51 students have graduated from the program and begun FM residency (classes of 2013-2019); an additional 8 students are on track to graduate in 2020.
To date, 31 FMAT-trained learners have completed FM residents, and additional 6 will finish in 2020. All are practicing FM/primary care, and all but 2 are in Texas—most in rural and/or medically underserved areas.
For more information, email Betsy.jones@ttuhsc.edu
For more information: https://www.ttuhsc.edu/medicine/medical-education/dome_fmat.aspx