A-PRIME TIME, UTEP’s branch of the Transformation in Medical Education (TIME) initiative, has hired a new project director. Ericka Quiñones comes to the A-PRIME TIME program from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center where she was the associate director of academic programs for the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine. Quiñones will help coordinate the collaborations and activities between the partnership and the grant that supports it.
In 2011, UTEP received the largest portion – $1.5 million – of a $4 million grant given to four participating partnerships over the course of two years. The TIME initiative reaches the halfway point this summer. Donna Ekal, Ph.D., associate provost for undergraduate studies at UTEP, said the program is off and running with several efforts in place, such as an e-portfolio that documents what students learn outside the classroom, a pre-health professions program, professional identity formation through reflection and mentoring, and the development of nontraditional coursework.
UTEP receives $1.5M to help cultivate med school diversity [orginally posted June 28, 2011]
The University of Texas at El Paso has been awarded a $1.5 million grant to lead a partnership with four other universities to help develop a pilot program to increase minority medical student enrollment, while decreasing the time and expense required to complete medical school. The funds are part of a $4 million grant awarded in May by The University of Texas System Board of Regents in support of the Transformation in Medical Education (TIME) initiative.
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