Medicine, M.D.

This progressive approach to medical education creates and shapes empathetic scholars who are both adept at caring for patients, and able to meet the health care challenges of tomorrow. The student is central to the educational program. Student success is at the heart of the school’s design and has been incorporated in everything from the creation of significant learning experiences and education spaces to the launch of a highly individualized team-based framework for ongoing student coaching and support. The curriculum is divided into three phases across four years and has been carefully crafted to promote learning and student success.

Across the curriculum, students experience a highly-integrated, comprehensive curriculum with content in communication, critical thinking and design, and health care delivery systems among many other themes, to prepare them for the realities of physician practice in the 21st century. The school aims to optimize each student’s experience and performance by using proven strategies in self-directed learning, harnessing new technologies and incorporating longitudinal clinical learning opportunities. Patient care begins at the time students enter the program and integrates across the curriculum to provide immersive clinical training experiences and the opportunity for students to develop meaningful relationships with patients and faculty over time With 24 identified educational program objectives across 7 domains, students can be sure they are receiving the highest quality preparation to excel in the art and science of medicine.

The Texas Christian University (TCU) and University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) School of Medicine are redefining medical education, abandoning an outdated lecture model, and transforming the clinical experience. The School of Medicine offers a one-of-a-kind educational experience tailored to how students learn best, capitalizing on teamwork and application sessions to retain knowledge, with the patient at the center of all they do.

The TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine opened with a class of 60 students in July 2019. TCU and UNTHSC joined together in July 2015 to form this new allopathic medical school. The Fort Worth M.D. school’s focus on communication, a first-of-its-kind curriculum, and the development of Empathetic Scholars™ uniquely positions the organization to transform medical education, improving care for future generations radically.