General Information Q. What are the goals of the UNM BA/MD Program?
• There are two main goals of this program: • Help address the critical physician shortage in New Mexico by providing educational opportunities to those students who are most likely to return to the state to practice medicine. (The majority of NM counties are federally designated as being medically underserved.) • Encourage greater diversity of students trained as physicians. (See School of Medicine (SOM) Admission Policy http://hsc.unm.edu/som/admissions/policy.shtml • Students who accept a position in the BA/MD program are required to attend the UNM School of Medicine and to sign a Statement of Commitment to these goals. (http://hsc.unm.edu/som/combinedbamd/docs/BAMDCommitment.
• There are two main goals of this program: • Help address the critical physician shortage in New Mexico by providing educational opportunities to those students who are most likely to return to the state to practice medicine. (The majority of NM counties are federally designated as being medically underserved.) • Encourage greater diversity of students trained as physicians. (See School of Medicine (SOM) Admission Policy http://hsc.unm.edu/som/admissions/policy.shtml • Students who accept a position in the BA/MD program are required to attend the UNM School of Medicine and to sign a Statement of Commitment to these goals.
