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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UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Seton Family of Hospitals, UT System Approve Affiliation Agreement
October 12, 2009The new collaboration will expand graduate medical education, medical research and increase access to healthcare in Central Texas.
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Seton Family of Hospitals Receives Inaugural Maternity Care Quality Award
April 15, 2009Seton Family of Hospitals is proud to be the recipient of the first Maternity Quality Matters Award given by Childbirth Connections, a not-for-profit organization working to improve the quality of maternity care through research, education, advocacy and policy.
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Seton Associates Graduate from Medical Interpreting Training Program
July 23, 2008The Spanish Bilingual Assistants: Introduction to Medical Interpreting is a sixty-hour course designed to train bilingual health care workers to assist medical professionals in communicating with their Spanish-speaking patients and their families.
Seton is proud to have four hospitals – the only hospitals in Central Texas - that have earned the