The University of TENNESSEE ACCELERATED 3-YEAR PROGRAM
We are excited to introduce The University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine (UTHSC CoM) 3-year accelerated MD pathway. This pathway allows students to complete medical school more rapidly and with reduced cost. The 3-year parallel curriculum is directed at highly motivated students who have pre-determined their specialty area and who wish to complete their residency here at UTHSC within one of the following specialties: Family Medicine (Memphis, Jackson and Murfreesboro), Internal Medicine (Memphis, Nashville and Chattanooga), Medicine-Pediatrics, Neurology, Pediatrics (Memphis and Chattanooga), or Psychiatry. In the future we hope to expand to other UTHSC residency programs across the state. Upon successful completion of medical school, students in the 3-year MD program will have a directed pathway to their chosen residency program. Students in the parallel 3-year curriculum will achieve the same program objectives and curricular goals as those in the traditional 4-year curriculum.
Program Benefits
Reduce student debt
Allow students to get a head start in residency training and their income earning potential.
Provide early access to faculty mentors within your chosen specialty area.
Attract high-caliber, highly motivated applicants to the UTHSC CoM MD program.
Retain these high-quality students as residents at UTHSC CoM, and, ideally, beyond as physicians in Tennessee and faculty members at UTHSC CoM.
Increase the numbers of physicians in Primary Care and particularly Primary Care in Tennessee, as our state is underserved in these fields.
https://uthsc.edu/medicine/admissions/three-year-program.php