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Graduate Medical Education

Houston Methodist provides an academic health-care environment that promotes comprehensive learning opportunities for more than 41,000 medical students and physicians each year through medical student rotations, residency and fellowship programs, MITIESM procedural skills training and continuing education courses.

Our 920 medical students work with inpatient teams and one-on-one with subspecialists during rotations in general surgery, family medicine, internal medicine, orthopedic surgery and obstetrics and gynecology. Houston Methodist has 336 residents and fellows placed within 45 programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and nine Graduate Medical Education Committee-sponsored fellowships.

On Match Day in March 2020, 60 medical students from around the world officially became incoming residents at Houston Methodist for the 2020-2021 academic year. Of the new group of residents, 32 hailed from U.S. News & World Report-ranked medical schools.

336

RESIDENTS/FELLOWS

59 =

GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS

45 +

ACGME ACCREDITED

14

NON-ACGME ACCREDITED

UCSF Medical Center

Stanford Hospital

Keck Hospital of USC

UCLA Medical Center

Mayo Clinic Mayo Clinic

Cleveland Clinic Massachusetts General Hospital

NYU Langone Mount Sinai

UPMC Mercy University of Pennsylvania

Our residents and fellows join Houston Methodist from throughout the U.S., and go on to prestigious fellowship opportunities at institutions including Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Houston Methodist Academic Institute

The Houston Methodist Academic Institute oversees the Research Institute and Education Institute, including 775 faculty and 41,344 learners. The Academic Institute aligns our research and education initiatives in service to the clinical mission, providing solutions that answer the call for new technologies and skills our clinicians need for patient care.

The Houston Methodist Research Institute supports research programs and infrastructure that enable faculty across the system to bring new scientific discoveries to patients as rapidly as possible through the full cycle of a cure from conceptual bench research, to prototyping and development, to clinical trials and FDA approval. The Institute supports more than 1,470 clinical research protocols and $64.1 million in extramurally funded translational research programs.

The Houston Methodist Education Institute coordinates our primary academic affiliation with Weill Cornell Medicine and joint programs, including the EnMed engineering medicine program with Texas A&M University. The Institute also oversees continuing medical education and graduate medical education and supports more than 3,355 trainees in residence for medical, nursing, allied health and research education programs.

Houston Methodist Academic Institute

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