The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas is a component of The University of Texas System. It is one of the country's leading academic medical centers. UT Southwestern includes three degree-granting institutions: Southwestern Medical School, Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Southwestern Allied Health Sciences School. These three schools train approximately 3,400 medical, graduate and allied health students, residents and postdoctoral fellows each year. The UT Southwestern faculty includes four Nobel Prize winners and 17 members of the National Academy of Sciences. In its efforts to bring the latest laboratory findings to the patient's bedside, UT Southwestern supports more than 1,900 research projects annually totaling more than $150 million.

The UT Southwestern campus is also home to four outstanding hospitals: Zale-Lipshy University Hospital, Parkland Hospital, St. Paul Medical Center and Children's Medical Center of Dallas. UT Southwestern faculty members provide medical care at these hospitals as well as UT Southwestern's outpatient clinic, and other affiliated hospitals and clinics in North Texas.

Medical School for our residency is at the medical school on campus, which is always ranked as one of the premier medical schools in the United States.