UT Southwestern University Hospitals are committed to teaching and to learning, and offer many opportunities within the hospitals themselves.

Our current initiatives include:

• Coursework for the ongoing education of staff as well as community professionals: Recent courses have included conscious sedation, neonatal resuscitation, end of life care, and pain management.
  
  
• Unit-based educational services: Our educators also spend time in the patient care areas to provide and support the continuing education of patient care staff.
  
  
• We also offer excellent intensive programs to orient and train the newly hired staff members, including nursing internships and externships.
  
  
• Our employees have the option of tuition reimbursement for the continued education that they seek. For information on that program, please contact Human Resources at either hospital.
  
  
• On-line continuing education: On this web site, you’ll find a link to an annotated list of sites that offer such programs for many healthcare professionals. Check it out!
  
  
• Professional advancement training and support: We currently offer workshops for preceptors, trainers, charge nurses, patient care technicians and unit secretaries, in skills that are essential to each of these roles.
  
  
• Management training and education: Our program includes programs in staff retention, performance enhancement, interviewing skills and other aspects of leadership.

Please call us for more information, at the Department of Education, 214-645-1140.