Three-Year MD Programs: Perspectives From the Consortium of Accelerated Medical Pathway Programs (CAMPP).
In the last decade, there has been renewed interest in three-year MD pathway programs. In 2015, with support from the Josiah Macy Jr., Foundation, eight North American medical schools with three-year accelerated medical pathway programs formed the Consortium of Accelerated Medical Pathway Programs (CAMPP). The schools are two campuses of the Medical College of Wisconsin; McMaster University Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine; Mercer University School of Medicine; New York University School of Medicine; Penn State College of Medicine; Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine; University of California, Davis School of Medicine; and University of Louisville School of Medicine. These programs vary in size and medical specialty focus but all include the reduction of student debt from savings in tuition costs. Each school's mission to create a three-year pathway program differs; common themes include the ability to train physicians to practice in underserved areas or to allow students for whom the choice of specialty is known to progress more quickly. Compared with McMaster, these programs are small, but most capitalize on training and assessing competency across the undergraduate medical education-graduate medical education continuum and include conditional acceptance into an affiliated residency program. This article includes an overview of each CAMPP school with attention to admissions, curriculum, financial support, and regulatory challenges associated with the design of an accelerated pathway program. These programs are relatively new, with a small number of graduates; this article outlines opportunities and challenges for schools considering the development of accelerated programs.
J. Cangiarella is associate dean for education, faculty, and academic affairs, and director, Three Year Pathway Program, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York. T. Fancher is director, Accelerated Competency-based Education in Primary Care, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California. B. Jones is chair, Department of Medical Education, and codirector, Family Medicine Accelerated Track, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas. L. Dodson is campus dean, Medical College of Wisconsin-Central Wisconsin, Wasau, Wisconsin. S.L. Leong is director, Family Medicine Accelerated Program at Penn State, and associate vice chair for education and predoctoral director, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania. M. Hunsaker is campus dean, Medical College of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, Wisconsin. R. Pallay is academic chair and program director, Family Medicine, Mercer University School of Medicine, Savannah, Georgia. R. Whyte is associate dean for admissions, McMaster University Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. A. Holthouser is associate dean for undergraduate medical education, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky. S.B. Abramson is professor and chair of medicine and vice dean for education, faculty, and academic affairs, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York.
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