Two Teaching Hospitals of Texas members are among the 11 institutions receiving new state grants to support physician emergency and trauma care education:
- University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston: Graduate Medical Education (GME) fellowships for surgical critical care and residencies for emergency medicine
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center: GME fellowships for pediatric emergency medicine; fellowships for acute care surgery; fellowships for surgical critical care; and residencies for emergency medicine.
“Where a physician completes his or her post-graduate residency and fellowship is the strongest determinant of where they will eventually practice,” said Maureen Milligan, president and CEO, Teaching Hospitals of Texas. “These grants make it possible to educate more emergency and trauma care physicians in Texas to meet the needs of a growing population.”
The grants are made through the Emergency and Trauma Care Education Partnership, established by the 82nd Texas Legislature to support partnerships between hospitals and graduate medical programs in an effort to increase the number of emergency medicine and trauma care physician residents and fellows. ETEP program is managed by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
While representing just 4 percent of all hospitals in the state, THOT members comprise 40 percent of the state’s designated Level 1 trauma centers and train 49 percent of the state’s GME residents.
