THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER AT DALLAS

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ranks among the top academic medical centers in the world. Its faculty members — who are responsible for a broad array of groundbreaking biomedical research advances — are respected for their dedication to teaching. UT Southwestern's physicians provide patients with the highest quality of care throughout the medical center's outpatient clinics and affiliated hospitals.

The medical center has three degree-granting institutions: UT Southwestern Medical School, UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and UT Southwestern Allied Health Sciences School.

• The schools train more than 4,200 medical, graduate and allied health students, residents and postdoctoral fellows each year.

• Ongoing support from federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, along with foundations, individuals and corporations provide more than $360 million per year to fund about 3,500 research projects.

• Faculty and residents provide care to nearly 97,000 hospitalized patients and oversee 1.7 million outpatient visits a year.

• UT Southwestern has approximately 10,000 employees and a 2007-08 operating budget of $1.423 billion

Although its setting is urban, the 60-acre campus has a recreation center, tennis and basketball courts, jogging paths, and a six-acre wooded bird sanctuary. 

The excellence of any educational institution is determined by the caliber of its faculty. UT Southwestern's faculty has many distinguished members, including:

• Four active Nobel laureates, more than any other medical school in the world.
   
  o In 1985 Drs. Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein  shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their discovery of the basic mechanism of cholesterol metabolism. Dr. Goldstein is chairman of molecular genetics at UT Southwestern. Dr. Brown directs the Erik Jonsson Center for Research in Molecular Genetics and Human Disease.  
  
  o Dr. Johann Deisenhofer,  professor of biochemistry and investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at UT Southwestern, shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in chemistry for using X-ray crystallography to describe the structure of a protein involved in photosynthesis.
  
  o Dr. Alfred G. Gilman,  dean of Southwestern Medical School and former chairman of pharmacology, shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for the discovery of G proteins and the role they play in the complex processes by which cells communicate with each other.
  
  
• 18 members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the highest honors attainable by an American scientist.
• 21 members of the Institute of Medicine, a component of the NAS.

PARKLAND HEALTH & HOSPITAL SYSTEM        

Parkland Memorial Hospital is the major adult teaching facility at UT Southwestern.  A comprehensive and state-of-the-art facility, Parkland has been serving Dallas and its surrounding region for more than 100 years.  Frequently ranked among the best 25 hospitals in the nation, Parkland is licensed for 997 beds and is one the area's top employers, with over 6,000 employees.

Parkland treats over 42,000 inpatients and 800,000 outpatients (ED and clinics), and delivers approximately 13,000 babies annually.  Parkland is the major 911 receiving hospital, a major tertiary referral center, and an ACS verified level one trauma center (7,000 admits/year).  It also has the region's only ABA certified Burn Center (one of the largest and busiest in the world), and is home to the North Texas Poison Center (80,000 calls/year), and to Biotel, the region's EMS on-line medical control center (200,000 transports/year).

  PARKLAND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
  

Parkland's state-of-the-art emergency department encompasses more than 37,000 square feet and has been recently renovated to create a pleasant, comfortable working environment.  With over 90,000 annual visits of a high acuity level (minor complaints are triaged to clinics), the resident's clinical practice and learning experience is unparalleled.

Parkland's ED has 79 bed spaces, including 24 fully monitored critical care beds.  Unique features include a six-person asthma treatment room with a full-time respiratory therapist, a two-person eye/ENT room with slit lamp, a four-person conscious sedation orthopedic room equipped with C-arm fluoroscopy, and eight negative pressure ventilation (isolation) rooms.  Two of the resuscitation rooms have video monitoring for teaching purposes.
Parkland's ED is the major receiving facility for Emergency Medical Services (EMS).

Emergency Medicine faculty and residents provide medical direction and 24-hour medical coordination for Dallas EMS and most of its suburbs and medical coordination for disaster management. Parkland houses the North Texas Poison Center under the medical direction of Emergency Medicine faculty.  Critically injured trauma patients brought to Parkland's trauma center are resuscitated in the ED by the Trauma Team, where the Emergency Medicine residents play a major role.

 CHILDREN’S MEDICAL CENTER OF DALLAS         

Children's Medical Center is the major pediatric teaching facility in the system.  It is a private 322-bed hospital with roots dating back 80 years.  Children's provides advanced medical care for children from birth through age 18 and is ranked one of the nation's best pediatric hospitals.  The Emergency Department at CMCD is the highest volume pediatric emergency treatment facility in the nation, triaging over 90,000 patients.

Children's is the pediatric tertiary care referral center and the area's pediatric trauma receiving hospital.  The state-of-the-art facility comprises a dynamic emergency center, a 26-bed pediatric ICU, and maintains nearly 50 specialty clinics and programs.  The atmosphere is child-friendly throughout, from the colorful furniture and interiors, to the child-like shapes trimming the walls, to the red wagons used for patient transport, to an unbelievable train system that everyone must see.

The Dallas Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center is a twenty-minute drive from Parkland and is the clinical site for rotations in cardiac care unit and is a 216-bed facility with a 16-bed medical intensive care/cardiac intensive care unit.  Attending physicians are full-time faculty members of the Department of Internal Medicine and directly supervise resident clinical education.