The Austin Internal Medicine residency has been in existence since 1972. The residency program was previously a community based program in a city hospital (University Medical Center at Brackenridge) that functioned (and continues in this role) as the hospital safety net provider for the uninsured in Travis county.
Prior to 2005, we were sponsored by Seton Healthcare Network, part of Ascension Health. In 2005, we had the privilege of being sponsored by the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston with continued Seton Network support for our fiscal needs. Because of shifting priorities, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston will no longer sponsor this program and will concentrate on the recovery from Hurricane Ike and the transformation of the Galveston campus.
Our new sponsoring university will be the University of Texas at Southwestern Medical School beginning November 2009. Through this sponsorship we plan to further develop research on this campus and to create the optimal environment for medical education.
Seton is proud to have four hospitals – the only hospitals in Central Texas - that have earned the