university of texas southwestern medical center university of texas southwestern medical center the university of texas southwestern medical center (ut southwestern or utsw) is a public academic health science center in dallas, texas. with approximately 23,000 employees, more than 3,000 full-time faculty, and nearly 4 million outpatient visits per year, ut southwestern is the largest medical school in the university of texas system and state of texas. the institution has been consistently ranked among the top medical schools in the united states. the university of texas southwestern medical centertypepublic academic health science centerestablished1943parent institutionuniversity of texas systemendowment$1.31 billion (2022)budget$4.6 billion (2022)presidentdaniel k. podolskydeanwei-ping leeacademic staff4,175 (3,034 full-time, 333 part-time, 808 voluntary)students1,862 (923 medical school students, 552 graduate school of biomedical sciences students, 387 school of health professions students)postgraduates2,008 (1,512 clinical residents, 496 postdoctoral fellows)locationdallas, texas, united states32°48′45″n 96°50′18″wcampusurban, 231 acres (0.9 km2)websitewww.utsouthwestern.edu ut southwestern's operating budget in 2021 was more than $4.1 billion, and is the largest medical institution in the dallas–fort worth metroplex (and therefore north texas region), annually training about 3,800 medical, graduate, and health professions students, residents, and postdoctoral fellows. ut southwestern research programs amounted to $634.9 million in 2022. ut southwestern's faculty also provide services at scottish rite for children, va north texas health care system, and other affiliated hospitals and community clinics in the north texas region. faculty and residents provide care in more than 80 specialties to more than 100,000 hospitalized patients, more than 360,000 emergency room cases, and oversee nearly 4 million outpatient visits a year, including more than $106.7 million in unreimbursed clinical services annually. through the major hospitals affiliated with ut southwestern in the city of dallas, the medical center also has a large presence in the cities of plano, frisco, fort worth, coppell, and irving, prominent suburbs in the dallas area. furthermore, in 2016, ut southwestern began providing additional care through southwestern health resources, a network combining the systems of texas health resources and ut southwestern. the network comprises 31 hospitals, 300 clinics, and more than 3,000 physicians and caregivers, serving a 16-county area with around 8 million people. history establishment southwestern medical college as it appeared at its founding in the 1940s. animal facilities are seen in the lower rightoriginal phases 1, 2 in 1993. designed by edward larrabee barnes and john m.y. lee architects under the leadership of edward h. cary and karl hoblitzelle, a group of dallas citizens organized southwestern medical foundation in 1939 to promote medical education and research in dallas and the region. when baylor university moved its school of medicine from dallas to houston in 1943, the foundation formally established southwestern medical college as the 68th medical school in the united states. founded during world war ii, the medical school was initially housed in a handful of abandoned barracks. affiliation with university of texas when a new state medical school was proposed after world war ii, leaders of southwestern medical foundation offered the college's equipment, library, and certain restricted funds to the university of texas system, provided the university would locate its new medical branch in dallas. the board of regents accepted this offer, and in 1949 the college became southwestern medical school of the university of texas. in 1954 the name was changed to the university of texas southwestern medical school. the present campus site on harry hines boulevard was occupied in 1955 upon the completion of the edward h. cary building. this placed the medical school faculty next to the then-newly built parkland memorial hospital. in november 1972 the name and scope of the medical school were changed with its reorganization into the university of texas health science center at dallas. this provided for coordinated but separate medical, graduate, and undergraduate components. addition of howard hughes medical institute in 1986 the howard hughes medical institute opened a research facility on the campus. its investigators also hold faculty positions in the basic science departments of the medical school and graduate school. name change in october 1987 the ut system board of regents approved changing the name of the health science center to the university of texas southwestern medical center at dallas. the center consists of four degree-granting institutions: ut southwestern medical school, ut southwestern graduate school of biomedical sciences, ut southwestern school of health professions, and ut southwestern o'donnell school of public health. physical expansion the northern and western campuses are where most of the recent expansion has taken place utsw outpatient facility by lee/timchula architects since the late 1960s the university has added more than 6 million square feet of new construction. the 60-acre south campus includes 20 buildings housing classrooms, laboratories, offices, the extensive university of texas southwestern medical center library, an auditorium, and a large outpatient center. affiliated hospitals adjacent to the campus are zale lipshy pavilion, parkland memorial hospital, william p. clements jr. university hospital, and children's medical center dallas. in 1987 the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation gave the university 30 acres (120,000 m2) near the south campus for future expansion. a 20-year master plan for the site, designed by edward larrabee barnes and john my lee and partners, called north campus, called for six research towers, a support-services building, an energy plant, and underground parking, in addition to the mary nell and ralph b. rogers magnetic resonance center and the moncrief radiation oncology center. three research towers and an elevated campus connector, linking the south campus with the north campus, were completed in the 1990s. a fourth 14-story research tower was completed in 2005, followed by a 12-story research tower in 2011. in 1999 the university purchased an additional 50 acres from the macarthur foundation, and a portion was used to create an on-campus student-housing complex of 156 apartments. a second phase of 126 units opened in 2004. in 2008, the university purchased the 24-acre exchange park adjacent to the north campus. in 2008, ut southwestern announced plans to open the biocenter at southwestern medical district, a facility to commercialize university technologies and attract biotech companies to the area. also in 2008, ut southwestern acquired the exchange park site and renamed it the paul m. bass administrative and clinical center on the north campus. the center was named in honor of mr. bass, chairman emeritus of the southwestern medical foundation, who served in that role until 2008. with this property, the campus grew to 9 million square feet of laboratory, clinical, educational, and administrative space, covering 387 acres. in 2009, the $186 million biomedical research building (nl building on the north campus) opened. the building is the largest leed (leadership in energy and environmental design) silver-certified laboratory space in texas. ut southwestern opened its william p. clements jr. university hospital on dec. 6, 2014, along with the decommissioning of the 50-year-old st. paul university hospital. utsw opened its radiation oncology center in 2017. in march 2022, a $100 million gift, made by the o’donnell foundation, endowed a new school of public health. it is the largest gift to any school of public health at a public university in the u.s. affiliated health care institutions major utsw teaching hospitals william p. clements jr. university hospital parkland memorial hospital children's medical center dallas major affiliations: parkland memorial hospital (the primary teaching institution of ut southwestern, whose faculty is responsible for caring for the hospital's patients, this 2.1 million-square-foot acute care facility has 882 single-patient rooms, and more than 1 million patient visits each year). children's medical center dallas (the primary pediatric teaching hospital for ut southwestern, this hospital is licensed for 490 beds, has more than 50 pediatric specialty programs, and is the only pediatric hospital in north texas with a designated level 1 trauma center).water fountain in front of the william p. clements jr. university hospital william p. clements jr. university hospital (opened in december 2014 and was expanded in december 2020 as the centerpiece of ut southwestern's main campus. together with the hospital's zale lipshy pavilion, the 875-bed facility includes 124 adult icu rooms, 63 emergency treatment rooms, 56 operating rooms, 42 inpatient rehab beds, 30 neonatal icu rooms, 30 women’s services suites, 23 inpatient psychiatric beds, 15 infusion rooms, and two nuclear medicine rooms, and it is a joint commission-certified advanced comprehensive stroke center). dallas veteran affairs medical center (the u.s. department of veterans affairs’ second largest health care system, it serves 38 texas counties and two counties in southern oklahoma, providing primary, tertiary, and long-term care. the 822-bed system has a spinal cord injury center, domiciliary care program, and community living center with a dedicated hospice unit). texas health presbyterian hospital dallas (part of the texas health resources (thr) system, this 888-bed, acute-care facility was the first hospital in dallas to receive cycle iv chest pain accreditation from the society of cardiovascular patient care, and it is also accredited for emergency stroke care by the joint commission. in 2016, ut southwestern and thr launched a clinically integrated health care network, southwestern health resources to provide increased access to primary and specialized care to north texas residents, from preventive measures to advanced interventions). richardson regional medical center texas scottish rite hospital for children john peter smith hospital of fort worth clinical services one of 4 sunken courtyards at the medical school annual patient visits to the medical center's clinics average 400,000 a year, up from 50,000 annually 15 years ago. this includes affiliated patient care facilities such as the ut southwestern university hospitals. the harold c. simmons comprehensive cancer center is a national cancer institute (nci)-designated cancer center. ut southwestern is an advanced comprehensive stroke center, the highest level of certification. it is the only joint commission-certified advanced comprehensive stroke center in north texas, one of only three in texas. ut southwestern is home to an nih alzheimer's disease center and is a network of excellence in neuroscience clinical trials center. the doris and harry w. bass jr. clinical center for heart, lung, and vascular disease is a collaborative effort between ut southwestern faculty and community physicians. the center's transplantation programs for heart, lung, kidney, and liver have been certified by the federal government's centers for medicare & medicaid services. academics utsw south campus is the older and original part of the university west campus building, ut southwestern william p. clements jr. university hospital student body composition as of may 2, 2022 race and ethnicity total non-hispanic white/non-latin white 36% 36 asian 26% 26 hispanic and latin (of any race) 17% 17 foreign national 8% 8 black 4% 4 other 4% 4 faculty body composition as of may 2, 2022 race and ethnicity total white (including white hispanic and white latin) 57% 57 asian 24% 24 black 17% 17 others 1% 1 ut southwestern is governed by the ut system board of regents. the medical center includes four degree-granting institutions/schools: ut southwestern medical school, ut southwestern graduate school of biomedical sciences, ut southwestern school of health professions, and ut southwestern peter o'donnell jr. school of public health. throughout its history, ut southwestern has graduated approximately 22,420 physicians and other professionals in all areas of medicine. in 2022 alone, utsw faculty is training about 3,800 medical, graduate, and health professions students, residents, and postdoctoral fellows. ut southwestern medical school ut southwestern admits approximately 230 students each year. the average mcat score is 515, and undergraduate gpa in 2017 was 3.81. the acceptance rate for 2014 was 5.6%. utsw is one of the five least-expensive public medical schools and among the top 10 largest medical schools in the united states. the school's tuition and fees are approximately $23,200 per year for in-state residents, being subsidized by the state of texas. admission is competitive and, by mandate of the state legislature, 90% of applicants admitted are from the state of texas. many out-of-state students earn competitive scholarships that make up the difference. the medical school's curriculum emphasizes clinical experience and electives from the first year on. the curriculum comprises three periods: pre-clerkship clerkship post-clerkship the utsw curriculum focuses on providing a foundation in biomedical sciences, training in clinical care, and opportunities for research. the medical school features six academic colleges that function as small learning communities, each headed by a faculty mentor. along with the m.d. degree, ut southwestern offers options for students to pursue combined degrees and to earn special graduation distinctions. the combined