A-Prime Time: Accelerated Professional Relevant Integrated Medical Education
2011 – 2013
A PRIME TIME in Texas: UT Brownsville, UT El Paso, UT Pan Am,
UT Health Science Center Houston, & UT Medical Branch
The goal of the A PRIME TIME partnership is to develop a model of physician education that is widely recognized for its innovative approach, educational effectiveness, and professionalism of its graduates through a curriculum that
- is accessible to diverse groups of students and produces competent, compassionate physicians,
- fosters students to become caring and compassionate physicians by learning about a career in medicine while developing a professional identity early in their academic timetable,
- enables academic and medical institutions to jointly create a shared and more efficient, coordinated curriculum in a shortened timeframe,
- provides physicians trained and assessed in a range of cognitive, affective, and psycho-motor traits throughout their undergraduate and medical education, and, ultimately,
- achieves better health care outcomes for Texas.