GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION
Training Tomorrow’s Leaders in Healthcare and Medicine
Medical Education is Vital to Us. Education has been a vital part of the mission of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler since its beginning more than 70 years ago. As part of the world-renowned University of Texas System, UT Health Science Center is the only university medical center in Northeast Texas. UT Health Science Center exists to serve its region of the state and beyond through excellent patient care and community health, comprehensive education, and innovative research.
The Graduate Medical Education (GME) program at UT Health Science Center has expanded to include five truly exceptional residency training programs. Each program is committed through our mission to “serve Northeast Texas and beyond through excellent patient care and community health, comprehensive education, and innovative research.” These programs, all accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), are: Family Medicine Rural Family Medicine Internal Medicine Occupational Medicine Psychiatry
As a resident in one of UT Health Science Center’s physician training programs, you will: be guided and mentored by highly skilled medical professionals and faculty; develop your skills and clinical judgment to their highest levels; have the opportunity to pursue your medical interests; learn to work in a variety of clinical and health environments; discover what kind of career you want and how to launch it; and live in an affordable, vibrant, and family-friendly community. Through collaboration with physicians, researchers, nurses, students, and other healthcare professionals and faculty, UT Health Science Center is dedicated to providing the highest quality in residency training that is challenging and rewarding to the physician while providing excellent care that will advance the health of individual patients, communities, and populations at large.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler Residency Programs Rural residents spend year one in Tyler where they have access to more than 1,000 teaching beds and complete both core and some subspecialty rotations.
FAMILY MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM Since 1985, many of our family medicine residents have elected to stay in Northeast Texas to begin their practices and raise their families. Our region alone is home to over 80 physicians who have completed their three-year family medicine residency training at UT Health Science Center. The family medicine program is unopposed, providing a clinical experience that is supported by a solid academic foundation. Upon program completion, our residents will have the skills and sound clinical judgment necessary to practice comprehensive and compassionate family medicine with a focus on effective patient/family communications. The family medicine residency curriculum includes rotations in our university hospital on the UTHSCT campus, at UT Health Tyler (located in downtown Tyler), and other Tyler hospitals, as well as our Family Medicine Center, which has achieved the highest recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance as a Patient-Centered Medical Home.
RURAL FAMILY MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM The rural family medicine training program is based at UT Health Pittsburg, a critical-access hospital located in a Medically Underserved Area (MUA) 60 miles northeast of Tyler. Our curriculum is unique in several ways.
During the second and third years, residents provide care in our critical-access emergency room, the hospital inpatient service, rural health clinic, and in local nursing homes. Residents and faculty also provide medical support for Pittsburg High School sporting events and provide health lectures to interested students. This rural healthcare experience emphasizes emergency medicine, inpatient management, critical patient stabilization, triage to tertiary centers, and the opportunity to accompany patients during air and ground transfers. In addition to these experiences, our residents complete several specialty rotations in nearby Mount Pleasant.
INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM The internal medicine residency represents two committed healthcare institutions coming together to offer a depth of medical training that is of tremendous benefit to the long-term healthcare needs of the Northeast Texas region. This three-year program, which graduated its first class in 2015, is based at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd Medical Center (CGSMC) in Longview, Texas, about 30 miles east of Tyler. UT Health Science Center serves as the ACGME program sponsor. Residents have the opportunity to practice in a variety of healthcare settings including inpatient, outpatient, and emergency care. At the completion of their training, graduates of the internal medicine residency training program pursue fellowships or practice opportunities across the region and elsewhere.
OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM At a time when interest in workplace safety is at an all-time high, this two-year program offers residents the opportunity to bridge previous post-graduate training with a specialization in occupational medicine. This preventive medicine specialty focuses on providing health and wellbeing in the workplace; ensuring the physical attributes or limitations of workers are accommodated in job placement; and identifying the impact of physical, chemical, biological, and social factors in the workplace. Highlights of this residency program include practical training rotations through companies like ExxonMobil, Chevron, Boeing, and Eastman Chemical as well as OSHA and NIOSH; a master’s of science in environmental science; internationally prominent faculty; and rural- and agricultural-specific training.
PSYCHIATRY RESIDENCY PROGRAM Over 89 million Americans live in federally designated Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs). This public health challenge is especially prevalent in Texas where more than half of the 254 counties in the state have no psychiatrist at all. In working to address the shortage of mental health professionals in our region, UT Health Science Center has received ACGME accreditation for a Psychiatry Residency training program that welcomed its first residents in July 2017. At full complement, the program will have 24 residents – six per PGY level. We accept applications through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS). Our program is designed to provide education and training in a variety of settings on the fundamental skills required for board certification and practice in general psychiatry – preparing psychiatrists for private practice, academic, or public sector settings. Residents will have the opportunity to train and practice at the university hospital at UT Health Science Center in both inpatient and outpatient settings as well as with two Texas Department of State Health Services hospitals in Rusk and Terrell.
UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION UT Health Science Center also provides undergraduate medical education through its affiliation with UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. Third-year students can do a family medicine rotation at UT Health Science Center. Working with our family medicine residents and physicians is a great way for students to spend time immersed in Northeast Texas and experience rural family medicine. In addition, through an affiliation with GSMC and The University of North Texas Health Science Center – Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM), thirdyear students from TCOM can spend their entire third year in Longview and complete their core rotations through GSMC and its physician groups. We welcome inquiries from students at other medical schools as well. Contact our department of Graduate and Undergraduate Medical Education for information on rotations offered at this institution.
The Beauty of East Texas Tyler offers the cultural diversity, quality education, excellent healthcare resources, and recreational opportunities of a large city with the hometown friendliness and quality of life of a smaller community. It is located on Interstate 20, with the endless cultural and entertainment opportunities of Dallas less than two hours to the west. Two hours to the east is Shreveport, with its riverboat casinos and Louisiana cuisine.
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT TYLER (UTHSCT)
For several weekends in March and April, Tyler’s blooms are celebrated with the Tyler Azalea and Spring Flowers Trail. Each year on the third weekend in October, the Texas Rose Festival commemorates Tyler’s past as a rose-growing and rose-packing center. Northeast Texas is also home to numerous parks, lakes, excellent golf courses, and many other outdoor activities.
Our communities in Northeast Texas are defended by a shield. It protects our health today and safeguards our health and wellness for the future. It stands stalwart between the people we care about and the illnesses, epidemics, and hazards that threaten them.
Tyler and its surrounding communities also offer a wide variety of educational opportunities. The Tyler Independent School District is the largest school district in Northeast Texas. Recognized private and parochial school systems also are available. In addition, the city is home to Tyler Junior College, Texas College, and The University of Texas at Tyler with a combined enrollment of approximately 20,000. The city boasts a symphony orchestra, art museum, and many other cultural opportunities.
Our academic mission is a shield forged of three parts – graduate medical education, graduate education, and biomedical and clinical research. Three integral, interconnected components joined unlike anywhere else in Northeast Texas.
Longview, a town of over 80,000 people located just 30 miles east of Tyler, also supports a thriving educational, entertainment, and arts community. It is home to the Longview Museum of Fine Arts and LeTourneau University, as well as a vibrant music and theater scene. While Sulphur Springs, with a population of just over 15,000, is much smaller than Tyler and Longview, it’s charming and friendly – the perfect place for residents drawn to small-town life. Tyler is the largest community in Northeast Texas, with a population of more than 100,000.
Salary and Benefits
That shield is The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler.
As the region’s only university medical center, UT Health Science Center is home to some of the latest developments in patient care and community health, medical and health education, and biomedical and clinical research. Only about five percent of hospitals qualify as university medical centers, but this small group of elite institutions is our nation’s primary conduit between first-rate patient care, education, and research and the communities we serve.
The University of Texas System and UTHSCT partnered in 2018 with Ardent Health Services to form UT Health East Texas - now 10 hospitals, more than 50 physician clinics, rehab and home health services, a 45-ambulance EMS fleet, four helicopters, and a comprehensive trauma center care network.
Surrounded by the beauty that is the Northeast Texas countryside, our residency programs offer exceptional benefits including competitive salaries, generous insurance coverage, and personal leave as well as education-related allowances, professional memberships, and other advantages. Visit our website at uthealth.org/gme for more detailed information.
Graduate and Undergraduate Medical Education (903) 877-7253 uthct.edu
11937 U.S. Hwy. 271 | Tyler, Texas 75708
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