Houston Methodist Hospital and College Station-based Texas A&M University Health Science Center have announced a partnership to develop new health professions degree programs.
The partnership will offer a joint MD/PhD program in which individuals will take medical and graduate classes at Texas A&M and complete three to four years of doctoral thesis work at the Houston Methodist Research Institute or the Institute for Biosciences and Technology.
The partnership will also offer a medical degree program that will begin with two years of basic medical science and pre-clinical training at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine in Bryan and continue with a third year rotation and options for fourth year electives at Houston Methodist Hospital.
"Our programs will mentor young physicians to nurture their ideas for new cures and treatments, and provide them the skills they need to turn these ideas into realities that improve health for patients everywhere," said Tim Boone, MD, PhD, co-director of the Houston Methodist Institute for Academic Medicine and the new regional vice-dean for the Texas A&M College of Medicine, in a release.
Participating physicians and scientists from Houston Methodist will receive faculty appointments and titles from Texas A&M.
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