Collaborative Spaces Take Shape at Burnett School of Medicine at TCU’s Arnold Hall

FORT WORTH – The interior floors of the four-story Arnold Hall at the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at Texas Christian University are taking shaping.

Linbeck construction crews are nearing completion of the building in the heart of Fort Worth’s Medical Innovation District and are in the process of finishing administrative offices on the fourth floor. 

In episode nine of On Site: Construction of the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at Texas Christian University hosted by Founding Dean Stuart D. Flynn, M.D., faculty members of the medical school and JPS Health Network leaders discuss the benefits of medical students getting early clinical exposure through the Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) curriculum. 

“From the first day students walk into our medical school, they are assigned to a primary care physician,” Dean Flynn said. “You go to medical school to learn to care for patients and medical schools in the past withheld this for two years and had them sit in classrooms. Our students do a lot of classroom work and small group work but to show up at hospitals in their first year is a great complement to their learning.”  

Grant Fowler, M.D., Chair of Family Medicine at Burnett School of Medicine at TCU and Chairman, Department of Family Medicine, and Associate Program Director at JPS Health Network, and Tricia Elliott, M.D., Professor at Burnett School of Medicine at TCU and Senior Vice President Academic and Research Affairs, Chief Academic Officer, DIO at JPS Health Network shared their experiences working with students. 

“We take a significant number of the students and we’re proud of that,” Dr. Elliott said. “I’m excited that continues and they are embedded. They get to know the staff and they are learning continuity of care.”  

Construction of the new medical education building is scheduled to be completed in Summer 2024.