Seth Martin is unusual among students at Penn State College of Medicine: He’s Mennonite. And he’s among a small group on track to finish medical school in three years rather than the usual four.
“The short answer is yes, it’s hard,” the 25-year-old Lancaster County native said. “I’m not sure if it’s harder than I expected, because I was expecting medical school in general to be very difficult. … We certainly have a little less free time.”
Dauphin County-based Penn State College of Medicine is also unusual, one of 30 of about 155 medical schools in the United States offering the “accelerated path.”
It’s intended to turn out doctors faster to help address a projected shortage. Beyond that, students can lower the cost of medical school by tens of thousands of dollars. As a result, it’s seen as a way of enabling people from more diverse backgrounds to become doctors.
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