Prospective Students

Programs

The School of Medicine provides multiple avenues for obtaining a degree in medicine. These include the standard 4-Year MD Program, the Family Medicine Advanced Track (3-Year Program), and various dual degree programs.

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The standard 4-year medical school program culminates in an M.D. degree. This program will prapare participants for a career in the specialty of their choosing.

Phase 1, the Basic Science curriculum, is in Lubbock and is the building block for students prior to their clinical experiences.

Phases 2 and 3, the Clinical Science curriculum, can be in Amarillo, Covenant, Lubbock or Permian Basin.

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The Family Medicine Accelerated Track, or FMAT, is an innovative 3-year accelerated medical school curriculum that culminates in the M.D. degree.

It will prepare participants for a standard 3-year family medicine curriculum at one of three Texas Tech programs, in Lubbock, Amarillo, or the Permian Basin.

Ten students will be chosen from each TTUHSC School of Medicine first year class and will be notified of their selection early in the second semester of first year. Preference will be given to students with expressed interest in Primary Care/Family Medicine, academic performance (including grades from fall semester of year 1 placing the student in the top 50% of the class), as well as interviews with members of the FMAT faculty.

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The Health Organization Management (HOM) joint degree program allows students to earn both MD and MBA degrees within the four years of medical school.

Enrolled students complete 42 hours of coursework at Texas Tech University Rawls College of Business, 6 of which is completed in the school of medicine.

Areas of study include accounting, management strategy, business decision-making skills and methods, business information systems, as well as other core skills in the business curriculum.

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The MD/MPH emphasizes the knowledge and skills of core public health disciplines and public health practice.

A Master in Public Health can be earned by completing a minimum of 45 credit hours, including a practicum experience and a culminating experience.

At this time, the MPH program offers a generalist MPH degree.

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If you are interested in a career in academic medicine as a physician scientist, this program may be ideal for you.

It will prepare you to become a medical practitioner and faculty member at a university medical center where you will teach medical and graduate students, and, as a scientist, will be involved with biomedical research.

After completion of the program, you will receive both the M.D. and Ph.D. degrees.

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The MD/JD program is a six-year program designed specificallyfor individuals interested in the areas of health law, health care policy, bioterrorism, forensics or biomedical compliance.

The dual degree program of study is administered by the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine and Texas Tech University School of Law.

Students complete 78 hours of coursework in the School of Law between the third and fourth years of the MD program.

Applicants interested in this program must apply separately to the School of Law and the School of Medicine in the same admissions cycle, satisfying the application requirements of each program.

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The School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences offer the MD/MS program.

It is designed for students who wish to add research experience to their portfolio, and requires the performance of one year of research in collaboration with faculty from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

The research year is usually performed prior to Phase 2 of the MD curriculum.

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Through this unique partnership our goal is to realize the impact of engineering on medicine in the same way we have seen it influence the technology sector, such as space exploration. It represents a new leap forward to train the next generation of clinical and engineering visionaries as they advance health care.

Students will take 12 hours of required coursework in the M.S. in Bioengineering degree program and 12 hours of elective MSBIOE coursework; 6 hours will focus on research. Thesis students take 4 additional graduate courses that meet with the advisor's approval. Students are encouraged to explore courses outside their specific backgrounds.

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