Progress & Impact
From attracting top doctors to Austin to improving and integrating safety-net care, Dell Med connects partnership and progress to better health for Central Texans.
Improving & Integrating Care
Attracting Top Doctors to Austin
Dell Med is directly or indirectly connected to attracting 445 new doctors — representing 59% of our faculty — to Austin since 2014. That’s about 1 in 10 doctors in Travis County.
From the influx of talent and expertise, Central Texas has gained care capacity in abdominal transplantation, basic and complex cardiovascular care, advanced maternal-fetal medicine and more.
Building a World-Class Academic Medical Center
In 2023, The University of Texas System announced the monumental initiative to build The University of Texas Medical Center, anchored by Dell Med.
It will include a new, state-of-the-art UT hospital, an MD Anderson Cancer Cancer and the resources of a globally recognized Tier 1 research university brought to bear on solving health’s most pressing challenges — all while setting a standard of excellence for integrated, multidisciplinary, patient-centered care.
Caring for the Community
At UT Health Austin, our clinical practice, nearly 1 in 4 patients are part of the safety-net population.
Dell Med Faculty in the Community
Of 352 faculty members employed by Dell Med, 264* — 75% — work full or part time in the community with a range of clinical partners. This year, they will provide 435,000+ hours of care.**
*FY25 projection
**Does not include care at UT Health Austin
Dell Med Trainees in the Community
Our 480 residents and fellows also play a critical role in providing care locally — more than 898,000 hours at 90-plus clinics and hospitals.
About 677,000 hours of trainee-provided care — 75% — are at CommUnityCare Health Centers, Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas, Dell Children’s Medical Center or Ascension Seton Shoal Creek.
Dell Med Students in the Community
Dell Med students spend 44 weeks on six core clerkships, rotating primarily at Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin, Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas and Dell Children’s Medical Center.
In addition, students operate the C.D. Doyle Clinic, a free clinic in east Austin that provides care for un- and underinsured.
Dell Med’s Growth in Research
Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research Rankings: Dell Med ranked 136 out of 141 medical schools in 2018, improving to 107 in 2023 in these ranking that use National Institutes of health funding as a measure of important research activity.
No other U.S. medical school had a greater increase in rank during this period.
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Training the Workforce of the Future
Preparing Future Physicians
Dell Med has now graduated five classes from its M.D. program — more than 230 new doctors.
In the most recent class, 18 graduates — about 1 in 3 — entered a primary care specialty, continuing a trend toward family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics for Dell Med alums.
Training Residents & Fellows
Graduate medical education in Central Texas is expanding: In collaboration with Ascension Seton, Dell Med has more than tripled its number of residency and fellowship programs — to 48 — since 2015.
By 2025, the number of residents and fellows will have increased by 88% over that same period.
More Doctors for Central Texas
Of the 578 graduates of Dell Med residency and fellowship programs who have immediately entered practice since 2015, nearly half stayed in Central Texas. More than two-thirds stayed in state.
Likewise, nearly half of the 230-plus doctors who have graduated from Dell Med’s M.D. program since 2020 have stayed in Texas for residency. About 20% stay right here in Austin.
Pathway Programs
Upstream of M.D. education is support, exposure and acess to health professions for younger learners across Central Texas. Dell Med’s pathway programs prepare students for the health professions workforce or graduate education though direct experiences — including six unique programs for middle and high schoolers, 500+ students served each year and 4,500+ students served to date.
Community Initiatives
In 2018, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission contracted with Dell Med to lead a collaborative to redesign this facility that serves 26 counties for adults, 57 counties for adolescents and 75 counties for children.
This became an opportunity to reimagine not just a hospital, but the entire continuum of care for brain health, with Dell Med convening a team and delivering a master plan for just that.
Dell Med and Travis County are pursuing partnership opportunities to support a three-phased development of the “diversion ecosystem” to help prevent criminal justice involvement for people with mental illness and substance use disorders.
Last year, Dell Med published a final report outlining the findings of this effort that serves as foundation of broader work now in progress.
Jointly designed by the Ending Community Homelessness Coalition and Dell Med, the Permanent Supportive Housing Health Care Collaborative is bringing integrated primary and behavioral health support to residents of more than 1,000 permanent supportive housing units in Austin.
These residents are people who were formerly experiencing homelessness.
The Coordinating Center for Colorectal Cancer Screening Across Texas is creating a statewide network of resources to increase screening and detection. The multimodal program supports patient navigation to ensure access to colonoscopies for follow-up of positive tests and for high-risk screening and surveillance.
CONNECT has resulted in 16,000 screenings, 700 colonoscopies and 23 cancer diagnoses.
Data as of July 2024*
*Number of residents, fellows and graduate medical education programs as of September 2024