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Lubbock, TX (openPR) 4 October 2010

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) School of Medicine? s Department of Family and Community Medicine is to grant 549 481 Bachelor in primary care by the Federal Bureau of Health Professionsâ get? Department of Medicine and Dentistry for his innovative Accelerated Family Medicine Track (FMAT) program.

Health Bureau Professionsâ? Department of Medicine and Dentistry is an Office of Health and Human Resources Services Administration (HRSA) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This project was under Title VII, § 747 legislation, whose programs are financed aimed at improving the nation? S Access to skilled practitioners in supporting primary care-oriented medical specialist training in community-based development and pre-doctoral programs.

In an effort to address the lack of U.S. family physicians remedied TTUHSC School of Medicine of the first medical degree in three years, never approved by the accreditation body recognized national authority for medical education. The new program will complete primary care students TTUHSC School of Medicine FMAT her medical degree in three years at half the cost of the standard curriculum of four years.

â? This is a program of national importance, such as ensuring that all Americans have access to a family doctor have work, “said Steven Berk, MD, dean of the TTUHSC School of Medicine. Â? Our hope is that students encourage them to pursue careers in of family medicine and grants to pursue the federal government, such as promoting family medicine competency-based songs such as accelerated review of other medical schools. “

According to the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) since 1997 from medical school in the United States attended games in the family medicine and general internal medicine programs by nearly 50 percent decline. In 2006, estimated the work AAFP study that require the U.S. to about 39,000 family doctors in 2020.

five-year grant funding includes TTUHSC Department of Family and Community Members of the Medical Faculty at all three locations Medical School in Lubbock, Amarillo and the Permian Basin and supports the creation initiatives for training medical students and residents in family medicine.

Predoctoral Training in Primary Care grant will run until 2015. This project is the development, implementation and evaluation of the TTUHSC School of Medicine? S FMAT innovative program three years culminating in a medical degree and prepare students for a standard house of three years in medicine at a TTUHSC residency program in family practice in Lubbock, Amarillo or added to the Permian Basin.

project, Professor TTUHSC program FMAT Ron Cook, DO, Associate Vice President of Family and Community Medicine, said the program has garnered support from other schools.

â? He had a lot of discussion about what Wea? because this accelerates at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Medical School, â? Cook said. â? Other universities have expressed interest in starting a> program.â expressed similar ????

Cook, â? The federal government is money used to support students in scholarships and grants, the cost of their education so that they can reduce their office here in our school.â?

FMAT TTUHSC School of Medicine, which has been approved by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), recognized the authority of the accreditation at the national level for medical education programs, the Doctor of Medicine U.S. and Canadian medical schools. The Association of American Medical Colleges and the American Medical Association, sponsor of the LCME.

The University begins accepting students in the fall 2010 program FMAT class of students just completing their first year of medical school at the TTUHSC School of Medicine.


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