What is the Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP)?
The Joint Admission Medical Program is a long-term premedical academy for college freshman students who have the desire to become physicians. Students apply in the Spring of their Freshman year and, if accepted, enter the program as college sophomores and participate in 2 major summer internships at various medical schools in Texas. Assignment to the summer programs is based very largely on the number of prerequisite courses that have been completed by the end of the student’s Sophomore year. Summer internships are 6-weeks long and always take place in the first half of the summer. JAMP Summer Internships never interfere with the students’ ability to enroll in a Summer II academic session at their respective schools. If these pre-medical enrichment course requirements are met and a GPA of 3.25 is maintained, and the JAMP Council has approved of their performance in the interviewing stage, then the JAMP student is guaranteed admission into one of the medical schools in Texas. The genera
The Joint Admission Medical Program is a long-term premedical academy for high school students who have the desire to become physicians. Students enter the program as college sophomores and participate in 3 major summer internships at various medical schools in Texas. If these pre-medical enrichment course requirements are met and a GPA of 3.25 is maintained, then the JAMP student is guaranteed admission into one of the medical school in Texas. The qualifications include the applicant’s qualification for a Pell Grant, and the completion of 27 hours of undergraduate coursework in the freshman year. JAMP is a state sanctioned and supported program, and is participated in by every major public and private college and university in Texas. This program allows for students to receive special mentoring by JAMP Faculty Directors. At this time the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine does not have legislative authority to participate in JAMP.
