How to Fast Track Medical School - U.S. News & World Report
When Robert Cooper was growing up in Edgewood, Texas, he liked his neighborhood family doctor so much that by the time he got into medical school in 2010, he already knew he wanted to go into primary care.
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It didn't hurt, either, that primary care doctors are so in demand that his medical school is speeding them into the workforce. The program Cooper enrolled in, an accelerated option at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine in Lubbock, will allow him to get his medical degree in three years rather than the usual four, provided he commits to primary care.
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