This innovative School of Medicine building represents the initial phase of Texas Christian University’s first large-scale, off-campus development. Located in the heart of Fort Worth’s Medical District, the new campus serves as an inclusive and welcoming academic hub for 240 medical students and hundreds of faculty and staff.
Benefitting from the vast clinical expertise and growing medical industry in the area, this transformative facility is designed to educate and train students to be prepared as Empathetic Scholars™ and have a truly exponential impact on the community. The unique curriculum focuses on the future of medicine, medical knowledge, communication skills, compassion, and lifelong learning – and is structured to advance partnerships with hospitals, healthcare organizations, and biotech industries.
Reflecting TCU’s forward-thinking pedagogical approach, the design includes flipped classrooms aimed at increasing student engagement and learning. In this model, as students complete readings, they work on live problem-solving during class sessions. This enables students to partner with physicians from their first day in medical school and provides more time to embrace major drivers in the future of medicine, including artificial intelligence, genomics, and technology monitoring patient health and disease.