" border="0" />Tomorrow's doctors are being trained right here in Central Texas. Combining real world clinical experience with quality, personalized instruction, medical residents are gaining the skills they need to build successful careers in medicine.
A 30-year agreement between the Seton Family of Hospitals and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston provides the foundation for the Graduate Medical Education program at Seton. The partnership between Austin's largest healthcare provider and the oldest medical school in Texas will expand the current graduate medical education program at Seton and facilitate the development of new specialty education opportunities in the area. UTMB currently has about 50 residents who do their clinical training in Austin.
Seton and UTMB are expecting to train more than 200 residents by 2010 which is good news for the Central Texas region, since most physicians practice in the area where they complete their residency. Now residents training in Austin will not only improve access to care in the present, but also will help to address the future health needs of the area’s growing population.
As part of the agreement, UTMB assumes sponsorship and management of all five graduate medical education programs at University Medical Center at Brackenridge over the next three years. These include obstetrics/gynecology, internal medicine, family practice, pediatrics and psychiatry.
News and Events
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Brackenridge Name Change Reflects Growth of Academics, Research
February 28, 2008The Seton Family of Hospitals recently announced a new name for Brackenridge Hospital to reflect medical innovation and academic medicine.
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Another Historic "First" for Central Texas Health Care
August 29, 2007
The Seton Family of Hospitals and area education leaders celebrate the opening of the Clinical Education Center at Brackenridge by welcoming the first 50 nursing students from Austin Community College.
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Celebrating More than 75 Years of Graduate Medical Education in Austin
June 18, 2007
On Tues., June 12, the Seton Family of Hospitals, Travis County Medical Society, University of Texas Medical Branch - Austin Programs, and physicians gathered to celebrate graduate medical education in Austin and shine the spotlight on some of the true pioneers of medicine.
Seton is proud to have four hospitals – the only hospitals in Central Texas - that have earned the