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 and 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 achieves the following goals:

• 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 time frame
• Provides physicians trained and assessed in a range of cognitive, effective and psycho-motor traits throughout their undergraduate and medical education
• Achieves better health care outcomes for Texas