UT Southwestern Medical Center

ut southwestern is an academic medical center, world-renowned for its research, regarded among the best in the country for medical education and for clinical and scientific training, and nationally recognized for the quality of care its faculty provides to patients at ut southwestern’s university hospital & clinics and affiliated institutions. the medical center includes three degree-granting institutions: ut southwestern medical school, ut southwestern graduate school of biomedical sciences, and ut southwestern school of health professions. - the schools train nearly 3,700 medical, graduate, and health profession students, residents, and postdoctoral fellows each year. - ongoing support from federal agencies, along with foundations, individuals, and corporations, provides more than $524 million per year to fund faculty research. - ut southwestern physicians provide care in about 80 specialties to more than 117,000 hospitalized patients, more than 360,000 emergency room cases, and oversee nearly 3 million outpatient visits a year. - ut southwestern has approximately 18,800 employees and an operating budget of $3.7 billion. - in u.s. news & world report’s america’s best hospitals 2023-2024 guide, ut southwestern is ranked the no. 1 hospital in texas (tie) – and a top 20 hospital in the nation. additionally, utsw is nationally ranked in nine specialty-care areas: cancer; cardiology, heart & vascular surgery; diabetes & endocrinology; ear, nose & throat; gastroenterology & gi surgery; geriatrics; neurology & neurosurgery; obstetrics & gynecology; pulmonology & lung surgery; rehabilitation; and urology.