Mercer’s Primary Care Accelerated Track Program was one of the first two programs to be created in the United States.
It was designed to address Georgia’s critical shortage of primary care physicians by allowing students interested in a career in family medicine, general internal medicine, or pediatrics to complete their medical school coursework in an accelerated three-year program with less tuition debt.
Scholarships are awarded to highly-qualified medical students upon the completion of their first year of medical school and cover tuition for the second and third years.
Upon completion of residency, Scholars are required to participate in three years of continuous, full-time, primary care medical practice in a medically underserved rural area of Georgia.
The practice must also accept Medicaid patients.
To learn more, visit Accelerated Track Program.