HRSA grant provides $346,000 for UT Health Science Center Physician Assistant program

October 14, 2008

The grant will provide reimbursement to faculty members who travel between San Antonio and the Laredo Campus Extension (LCE), travel funds for students receiving clinical training throughout South Texas, financial assistance to help with costs associated with student community health and medicine projects, and funds for faculty development.

UT Medicine San Antonio opens Westover Hills clinic

October 8, 2008

UT Medicine San Antonio, the clinical practice of the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Medicine, opened its newest clinic today in Westover Hills – a rapidly growing area in west San Antonio that is also home to the new Microsoft data center and SeaWorld.

Briscoe Library to host celebration of women in medicine exhibit

October 2, 2008

Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians,” a traveling exhibition of women physicians’ inspiring stories from the mid-1800s to the present, is coming soon to the UT Health Science Center’s Dolph Briscoe Jr. Library.

UT System grants $1.7 million to 3 faculty teaching programs

October 2, 2008

The three grants totaling $1.7 million will provide or expand innovative approaches to medical education with the ultimate goal of producing physicians who are educationally outstanding, compassionate and service oriented.

COPD genetic research study needs 1,000 volunteers

September 29, 2008

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio and the South Texas Veterans Health Care System seek to enroll 1,000 current and former smokers in a genetic epidemiology study of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the fourth-leading cause of death in the U.S.