University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Medicine
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| The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Medicine |
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| Established | 1959 |
| School type | Public Public university A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities. A national university may or may not be considered a public university, depending on regions... |
| Dean | Francisco González-Scarano |
| Location | San Antonio San Antonio, Texas San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,... , Texas Texas Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in... , USA United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
| Enrollment | 901 students (2010) |
| Homepage | som.uthscsa.edu |
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Medicine, is one of nine medical schools in the State of Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
. It is located on the main campus of University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is an institute of health science education and research, located in the South Texas Medical Center....
in San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...
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Rankings
- US News & World Report ranked the school 42nd nationally in primary care in 2010.
- University ranked 6th in the nation in clinical medicine research impact for the period 2001 to 2005.
- Ranked 51st in the world in the 2010 clinical medicine rankings.
- 1st for Hispanics in the medical school category.
- 1st in National Institutes of HealthNational Institutes of HealthThe National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...
funding for aging research. - Ranked 48th in NIH funding for research grants among 3,181 institutes in 2004.
- 10th in NIH funding for Cellular and Structural Biology.
- 17th in NIH funding for PhysiologyPhysiologyPhysiology is the science of the function of living systems. This includes how organisms, organ systems, organs, cells, and bio-molecules carry out the chemical or physical functions that exist in a living system. The highest honor awarded in physiology is the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...
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University Hospital
The School's main teaching hospital is The University Health SystemUniversity Health System
University Health System is the public district hospital for Bexar County, Texas and San Antonio's only health system recognized by U.S. News & World Report, regarded as one of America's Best Hospitals...
, and was ranked among top 50 hospitals in the U.S. in Kidney Disorders in 2010.
Departments
The departments are:- Anesthesiology
- Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Family & Community Medicine
- Medicine
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopaedics
- Otolaryngology
- Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- Radiation Oncology
- RadiologyUniversity of Texas Health Science Center Department of RadiologyThe University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Department of Radiology is the second largest academic department in Radiological Sciences in the United States. Its offers graduate training in various tracks, including Medical Physics, Radiation biology, Medical Health Physics, and...
- Rehabilitation Medicine
- Surgery
- Urology