The nation’s academic health centers and teaching hospitals are key focal points for research, discovery and innovation. Academic settings attract exceptional health care faculty and physicians because university hospitals are exciting, challenging places to practice medicine.
Expanding medical education programs and ultimately creating an academic health research facility will benefit Central Texans in many ways. Patients will have greater access to clinical research trials using promising drug therapies or treatment protocols. And even more Central Texans will be able to stay closer to home for advanced medical treatments or procedures that are currently unavailable in the region.
What’s more, expanding medical education in Central Texas will help address the region’s looming physician shortage that is projected to grow to over 1,200 physicians in just five years. Why? Research shows that most physicians choose to practice medicine in the area where they completed their studies.
Seton is proud to have four hospitals – the only hospitals in Central Texas - that have earned the