University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Type	Public academic health science center
Established	1943
Parent institution	University of Texas System
Endowment	$1.31 billion (2022)[1]
Budget	$4.6 billion (2022)[2]
President	Daniel K. Podolsky
Dean	Wei-Ping Lee
Academic staff	4,175 (3,034 full-time, 333 part-time, 808 voluntary)[2]
Students	1,862 (923 medical school students, 552 graduate school of biomedical sciences students, 387 school of health professions students)[2]
Postgraduates	2,008 (1,512 clinical residents, 496 postdoctoral fellows)[2]
Location	Dallas , Texas , United States 32°48′45″N 96°50′18″W / 32.8126058°N 96.8384102°W / 32.8126058; -96.8384102
Campus	Urban, 231 acres (0.9 km2)
Website	www.utsouthwestern.edu

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,^[3] 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 the State of Texas.^[4]

UT Southwestern's operating budget in 2021 was more than US$4.1 billion,^[4] 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 US$634.9 million in 2022.^[5]

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 US$106.7 million in unreimbursed clinical services annually.^[6]

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.^[7]

UT Southwestern in Dallas has the largest medical residency program in the United States.^[8] 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.^[9]