First-year medical student Johnson Phung, 22, aspires to be an internal medicine physician. Akanee Angel, 23, also a first-year medical student, wants to practice family medicine. Both want to stay in Tennessee after they graduate.
Phung and Angel are students in the College of Medicine’s accelerated Three-Year MD Program. Launched in 2021, the program allows highly motivated students committed to practicing in certain fields to complete medical school more rapidly and with reduced cost.
It is available to students who know they want to enter the fields of Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Medicine-Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Neurology, Pediatric Neurology, and Psychiatry. Participants have a direct pathway to one of these residency programs in the UT Health Sciences system upon graduation from medical school.
Read more on the UT Health Sciences News website.